Blue, Clear Sky - Steve Forbert

Sometime you glimpse at simmering childhood sense of things

Sometime you sense that simple thing it brings

Most times you’re lonely say it’s something you once knew

Sometimes you glimpse and it is gone from view

(Sometimes you glimpse and it is gone from view)

It seems that most of the people that care the most about it

Have got their backs against the wall

So it’s no big surprise for me to hear you say

That you’re behind the old eight ball

Songbird sail away

Jet plane fly

Can’t leave the land today but

What a blue, clear sky

(Blue, clear sky)

You say you lost your money and you lost your wife

Go out to have to hang unto yourself somehow

Say you’re a self-made man and so you know how to lose

But sure could use some good news now

Songbird sail away

Jet plane fly

Can’t leave the land today but

What a blue, clear sky

(Blue, clear sky)

Sometime you glimpse at simmering childhood sense of things

Sometime you sense that simple thing it brings

Most times you’re lonely say it’s something you once knew

Sometimes you glimpse and it is gone from view

(Sometimes you glimpse and it is gone from view)

It’s been a time now that I’ve look into to forget my friend

Since we all saw the landmarks fall

And in the big western world

Lots of flags unfurled in the wake of the wake-up call

Songbird sail away

Jet plane fly

Can’t leave the land today but

What a blue, clear sky

Hum, hum, hum

Blue, clear sky