There's a Stone Around My Belly - Darrell Scott

There’s a stone around my belly

Keeps me up at night

Makes me want to feed it

Makes me want to fight with the world

I got a heart full of darkness

I got a headache full of dreams

I got a lifetime of memories

I don’t know what they mean to this world

Is there a place in this world for a dreamer

If dreaming were all he could bring

Would you listen to a man with a stone around his belly sing?

Now Jesus was a carpenter

This I do believe

He built his church without walls

And we brought him to his knees in this world

Now we lift our prayers to heaven

Up above the smog

Up above the satellites

Angels long for this world

Is there a place in this world for angels

Who would turn in their perfect wings

Just to walk down this road lifetime and sing

A song for this world

Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah

Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah

There’s a reason for the sadness

There’s a reason for the song

I have reason to believe that I won’t be too long for this world

Sixty years seventy-three if I’m lucky

Take this stone take this belly to a cabin in Kentucky

Push the stone up the mountain

Watch the stone roll down

Roll the stone into a pick-up truck

And drive it into town

In the town I check my mailbox

Find a letter from a friend

Who has hired a private eye

To find out where the hell I’ve been

Well I’ve been up on the mountain

I’ve been rollin' like a stone

Searchin' this whole world over

For a place to be alone

Alone to see the sunsets

And to count what I have lost

Alone to read aloud Walt Whitman

And to live like Robert Frost