Walden Pond

I hope you spend your days
Writing verses on your page.
May your life be a Walden Pond swim.
Taking showers in the cold
And your glasses filled to their brim.

And I hope you treat your heart
Real nice and real smart.
May your life be a Walden Pond swim.
Can't be worthless seein' stars,
Buying rocky-road for me and him.

Stay in that water and
Keep where you're feeling fine but
I'm just the daughter of a man who lives on oak and wine and I
Swim like my father
And remember hard days drivin' miles across county lines.

I hope you realize
Why the clouds are always crying.
May your life be a Walden Pond dive.
Shaking flowers at the ground
While you live the life you did at five.

And I hope it's testified
For you the best had been denied.
May your life be a Walden Pond...