Now that I know   The way it goes   You gotta pay back every penny that you owe      Twelve years old   In your mama's clothes   Shut the blinds and lock up every door      And if you hear   Someone’s comin near   Just close your eyes and make them disappear now      Years away   Finds me here today   On my own, always on my way now      So I send my friends   Gifts from where I've been   Something for the hand they’re never there to lend      Better keep those eyes   Climbing paradise   And don't pretend you won't reach it in the end now      Dearest dear   I know you been here   Why'd you run tell me why'd you disappear now      That you're not   Here with me   Seems to be the only time that I can see you clearly      I may not know   How to treat or give you what you need   But I am a gentleman who says what he means now      And now I sing   Upon my knees   And praise the kindness of a gentle breeze      I see it swell   Like a story in me to tell   Told years away and past my baby dying      So you raise them up   To heaven always hell   they’re unaware, share, give a hand to help son      Oh you give them away   But they’ll come back to you someday   Wanna know why nobody was ever there to help them      And no it ain’t fair   And if God forbid you care   It’s enough to get you in a whole lotta trouble      Oh realize   It ain’t wise to idealize   Or put your life in the hands of any struggle      Never renounce   Or ever claim to be   And never buy that freedom just ain’t free now      Ella sang   Sifting in the sand   Like a hymn within to help us understand      Heaven awaits   We’re making our stand   Glory bound and sparrow in our hand