Stars - Jacques Greene

I’m running through a field with my mother

I’m just a baby and I’m running through the tall grass

And I’m picking blueberries

Watching the sky even out

Hearing the birds go chirp chirp

And the fireflies go bzz bzz

I’m just the happiest I ever was

I used to didn’t wanna grow older

What are ya gonna be when you grow up?

I wanna pick berries in the field

I wanna play in the field and climb the trees

Never really had any friends around

All the other kids just stayed inside

Newspaper man said «We're living in a one horse town»

That must be a lonely life

I got a job at the factory

Putting things inside of the boxes

Until the boxes are full up and they go away forever

I just can’t wait for the sun to set

So I can go outside and go back to the field

Sometimes I wish it was dark forever

And I could hide under the trees

See the stars come out

Glow in the dark stars

Like in my bedroom at night

Monsters couldn’t give me a fright

I wanna stay out and play

But they always find me and bring me back

They said «A field’s no place for a baby like you»

I said «Wasn't everything just fields to begin with?»

Daddy lost his job when the mill closed

Now I’m all grown up

And I’m back in the field

And I’m with her and her and him and them

This time mama stayed home

Legs feel heavy like a stone

Sometimes I feel so happy that I could explode

I can see the stars in the field

I’m holding hands with everyone I ever did meet

Did you ever hear a sound that felt like air

That you could feel but couldn’t see

The branches and the leaves look like fingers on the trees

We started dancing by the stream

Lights and beams in the sky was blue and green

Prettier than you could ever believe

Somebody just said it was gettin' late

I don’t ever wanna leave

Please don’t make me leave

Dawn comin' up like a mack truck down the highway

Underside of the sky lookin' periwinkle

People keep on walking away

But I’m still in the field

Chewing on a blueberry

Hoping the sun gets shy

And goes right on back down again