Restless Spirit Wandering Lyrics - Tim O'brien

Restless spirit, wandering, come on home again 

Tell me about your days of old, wander back again 

You won't admit your life is taken, to your death not yet awakened 

Restless spirit wandering, come on home again 

Oglethorpe was around this place some hundred fifty years 

Since a Union bullet hit its mark, and his teenaged heart it pierced 

Years ago a young girl lived here, she became his friend 

But when their family moved away their friendship had to end 

When we bought this house the neighbors came and talked about him 

Though we've not heard or seen a thing, I hope he comes again 

I'd like to ask him lots of things, and hear the way he talks 

Describing local battle scenes on some slow morning walk 

Restless spirit, wandering, come on home again 

Tell me about your days of old, wander back again 

Don't admit your life is taken, to your death not yet awaken 

Restless spirit wandering, come on home again 

The room I write used to be a two car garage 

A nineteen fifties chrome and fin and white wall tired montage 

Years later it became a church, and they moved an organ in 

And these walls would shake with holy songs and sermons against sin 

I like to think this place was made for the kind of work I do 

I'll try to be ready when the spirit comes back through 

I'll write it down and sort it out and make it fairly rhyme 

And marry it to melody of the highest flying kind 

I want to try be to a friend to souls that cannot rest 

I would not blame their anger, don't claim to know what's best 

But souls are all connected like the branches on a tree 

And things they see beyond the grave might help out you and me 

Restless spirit, wandering, come on home again 

Tell me about your days of old, wander back again 

Tell me as you come and go, things that people need to know 

Restless Spirit, wandering, come on home again 

Don't admit your life is taken, to your death not yet awaken 

Restless spirit wandering, come on home again