Joshua: 45-46

You feel like you are seventeen Your back says you are forty-five At least it does this morning You've lost the kicks from your old tricks In a week you will be forty-six The birthdays come without warning How did I get so old I'm not really old but I'm no longer young And now I'm playing this guitar It feels so good to sing, my fingers on these strings And I get stopped in airports because I played an architect Some people think that's who I am It used to drive me crazy, and some days it still does But I'm learning how not to give a damn What do they think of me What a waste of time I've wasted so much time With all those years of walking blind I was hypnotized, mud upon my eyes Oh Joshua He made a mighty sound and the walls came tumbling down In old Jericho And now I bear his name and I'm doing the same The walls are coming down I started writing songs when I was just north of forty I try to write some everyday I wish that I had started sometime in the nineties but I'm not sure I had much to say Oh with my Leo sun, Sagittarian moon, born late afternoon With all that fire in my chest, I have had to learn how not to get burned And Richard says that God is love, I'm starting to believe him I can feel it in the mountains and the water in the air And Julian said that all is well Teresa said "There is a hell It's just that no one's there." I know it's good to be alive It's good to have a body It's good to have a mind And I, I'm done with right and wrong God is not a test but arms where I can rest Oh Joshua, He made mighty sound and the walls came tumbling down In old Jericho, And now I bear his name and I'm doing the same Oh Joshua, He made mighty sound and the walls came tumbling down In old Jericho, And now I bear his name and I'm doing the same Oh Joshua, He made mighty sound and the walls came tumbling down Oh Joshua. He made a mighty sound and the walls came tumbling down Oh Joshua, He made a mighty sound and the walls came tumbling down Oh Joshua, He made a mighty sound and the walls came tumbling down Oh Joshua, He made a mighty sound and the walls came tumbling down Oh Joshua, He made a mighty sound and the walls came tumbling down Oh Joshua, He made a mighty sound and the walls came tumbling down In old, in old Jericho, And now I bear his name and I'm doing the same