Ripening of the Grapes

Music & lyrics, 1977

Was it a dream?
Did it really happen?
It's hard to say, it's hard to know
It seems so long ago now

Did I sing you your song?
Of a flower in a field
Of the morning's glory, the angry sea
How I love you

Was it midnight?
Or was it midday?
I only recall a light that shone on my way
As I walked through the valley to see you

Baby you know my song
You know my song
I've sung it aloud
Over many a mile, you know
Just had a feeling for you
Just wanted you to know

Baby you know ti now
You know it now
I've told you the words
I know that you've heard it now
Just got a feeling for you
Just got that feeling again

If you run away and leave me
Laugh in my face
Somehow I won't hunger,
Somehow I'll feel no pain

The memory lingers
As a beautiful dream
To be always treasured, always remembered
When I think of you

I only make one prayer
That perhaps you'll stay
To see the sunrise, we'll climb the mountains
We'll walk to the sea to free ourselves

Baby you know my song
You know my song
I've sung it aloud
Over many a mile, you know
Just had a feeling for you
Just wanted you to know

Baby you know ti now
You know it now
I've told you the words
I know that you've heard it now
Just got a feeling for you
Just got that feeling again

Can't you see I, love the morning?
Can't you see I, love the sea?
You are the morning, the sunlight that sings to me
You are the sea the summer breeze

Can't you see, I love you?
Cant' you see, can't you see?
Can't you see, I love you?
You are everything to me

And you know it now...
You know it now...

How do I feel?
What should I be thinking?
I only know
I want to see you again

It's then I'll know it was real
That it really happened
As I prayed it might, as I dreamed it would
So many years ago

I want to see you
Today, tomorrow
In the early morning
As the bitter evenings draw in

Baby you know my song
You know my song
I've sung it aloud
Over many a mile, you know
Just had a feeling for you
Just wanted you to know

Baby you know ti now
You know it now
I've told you the words
I know that you've heard it now
Just got a feeling for you
Just got that feeling again

© Kirtland C. Peterson, 1977