"A Father's First Spring" lyrics - THE AVETT BROTHERS

The sweetest surrender of winter
She put up her flag, it is waving
The thunder of summer is rumbling in

[Chorus 1:]
I haven't seen you in days
And my, how that feeling has changed
Oh, I have been home sick for you since we met
I have been homesick for you

Now I've got to take to the sky
And I'll tell you what that means for you and I
If I die, it's for you

[Chorus 2:]
I never lived until I lived in your light
And my heart never beat like it does at the sight
Of you baby blue, God blessed your life
I do not live unless I live in your light

The realest thing I ever felt
Was the blood on the floor
And the love in your yell
I was a child before the day I met Eleanor

[Bridge:]
The kiss of the wind in the hills
The clearness of morning, the late evening thrill
Blurry and gray like the roar
The wheels on the highway, above them I soar

When I'm in the sweet daughter's eyes
My heart is now ruined for the rest of all time
There's no part of it left to give

[Chorus 2]