Jimmy Webb - Fallow Way lyrics

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I will learn to love the fallow way<br />

When winter draws the valley down<br />

And stills the rivers in their storm<br />

And freezes all the little brooks<br />

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Time when our steps slow to the song<br />

Of falling flakes and crackling flames<br />

When silver stars are high and still<br />

Deep in the velvet of the sky<br />

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The crystal time, the silence times<br />

I'll learn to love their quietness<br />

While deep beneath the glistening snow<br />

The black earth dreams of violets<br />

I'll learn to love the fallow way<br />

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I'll learn to love the fallow way<br />

When all my colors fade to white<br />

And flying birds fold back their wings<br />

Upon my ancient wonderings<br />

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The sun has slanted all her rays<br />

Across the vast and harvest plain<br />

My memories mingle with the dawn<br />

I dream of joyful vagabonds<br />

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The crystal times, the silence times<br />

I'll learn to love their quietness<br />

While deep beneath the glistening snow<br />

The black earth dreams of violets<br />

I'll learn to love the fallow times<br />

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No drummer comes across the plains<br />

To tell of triumph or of pain<br />

No word of far off battle's cry<br />

To draw me out or draw me nigh<br />

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I will hear the song of root and seed<br />

Beneath the ice in frozen ponds<br />

And slumbering in winter's folds<br />

Their dreams of green and blue and gold<br />

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I will learn to love the fallow way<br />

And listen for the blossoming<br />

Of my own heart once more in spring<br />

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As sure as time, as sure as snow<br />

As sure as moonlight and the stars<br />

The fallow time will fall away<br />

The sun will bring an April day<br />

And I will yield to summer's way