Lyrics Tools.lrc Andrew Peterson
[id: pshlxeth]
[ar: Andrew Peterson]
[al: Love & Thunder]
[ti: Tools]
[length: 03:47]
[00:00.88]You sent me to the shed with all the tools
[00:05.40]I remember how you said that I could take what I could use
[00:11.74]I got a hammer and a ratchet set
[00:15.30]A hundred tools I ain’t used yet
[00:19.87]They’re rusty, but they work as good as new
[00:27.06]Tools, tools
[00:36.97]I remember you as quiet as a picture
[00:44.27]Like that picture of the Navy sailor grinning for the girls
[00:50.53]You had visited the barber
[00:54.10]You were stationed at Pearl Harbor
[00:57.73]A year before the War became the world’s
[01:03.10]And you say, “Boy, sometimes you’ve got to get up on that ship,
[01:10.42]Leave all you love behind.”
[01:15.84]Well, Grampa, I’ve been everywhere
[01:20.34]But Fargo, North Dakota
[01:21.24]It ain’t war, but it’s a fight
[01:27.51]Tools, tools
[01:36.56]Well, I never knew you ever drew one picture
[01:44.78]But if you want proof that I’ve got you
[01:48.36]Here running through my veins
[01:50.19]I could show you call the sketchbooks
[01:53.77]That I filled when I was young
[01:57.35]And sixty years ago you did the same
[02:02.88]And you say, “Boy, just let ’em laugh
[02:06.44]When all they see is lines–
[02:09.12]Paint yourself a picture of your life.
[02:15.42]I believe that Swedish folks were
[02:18.18]Born with better eyes.”
[02:20.87]Grampa, I have always loved the sky
[02:26.24]I think you’re right
[02:31.66]You gave me tools.
[02:38.05]You sent that telegraph to tell her that you missed her
[02:43.44]When my daddy was a baby, oh you gave him to the Lord
[02:48.00]And the faith you handed down has somehow stuck around
[02:56.16]And love has called you home again
[02:59.71]To roam again no more
[03:05.17]You sent me to the shed with all the tools
[03:10.53]I remember how you said that I could take what I could use
[03:16.88]Faith and Love and Hope are what I carried home,
[03:23.21]They’re rusty but they work as good as new
[03:29.54]Tools, tools
[03:39.42]Year of Release: 2000