Drive-By Truckers - Guns of Umpqua lyrics

I see birds soaring through the
Clouds outside my window
Smell the fresh paint of a comfort
Shade on this new fall day
Feel the coffee surge through morning veins
From half an hour ago
Hear the sound of shots and
Screams out in the hallway

Spent my last weekend camping out again
Down the road a ways
Just me and Joan and a couple
Of friends on this beautiful trail
Watched the sun slip down behind a
Mountain stream in these great Cascades
Saw a mighty hawk swoop down upon
A stream to devour it's prey

Now we’re moving chairs in some panic
Mode to barricade the doors
As my heart rate surges on adrenaline and


Nerves I feel I’ve been here before
I made it back from hell’s attack
In some distant bloody war
Only to stare down hell back home
Outside my mind I wander freely
Past this rocky shore
Waves crash against the banks where
Lewis and Clark explored
We’re all standing in the shadows of
Our noblest intentions of something more
Than being shot in a classroom in Oregon

It’s a morning like so many
Others with breakfast and birthdays
The sun burned the fog away
Breeze blew the mist away
My friend Jack just had him a baby
I see birds soaring through the clouds
Outside my window today
Heaven’s calling my name from the
Hallway outside the door
Heaven’s calling my name from the
Hallway outside the door