Lay Down Your Weary Tune

[Chorus]

Lay down your weary tune, lay down

Lay down the song you strum

And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings

No voice can hope to hum

[Verse 1]

Struck by the sounds before the sun

I knew the night had gone

The morning breeze like a bugle blew

Against the drums of dawn

[Chorus]

Lay down your weary tune, lay down

Lay down the song you strum

And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings

No voice can hope to hum

[Verse 2]

The ocean wild like an organ played

The seaweed's wove its strands

The crashing waves like cymbals clashed

Against the rocks and sands

[Chorus]

Lay down your weary tune, lay down

Lay down the song you strum

And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings

No voice can hope to hum

[Verse 3]

I stood unwound beneath the skies

And clouds unbound by laws

The crying rain like a trumpet sang

And asked for no applause

[Chorus]

Lay down your weary tune, lay down

Lay down the song you strum

And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings

No voice can hope to hum

[Verse 4]

The last of leaves fell from the trees

And clung to a new love's breast

The branches bare like a banjo moaned

To the winds that listened the best

[Verse 5]

I gaze down into the river's mirror

And watched its winding strum

The water smooth ran like a hymn

And like a harp did hum

[Chorus]

Lay down your weary tune, lay down

Lay down the song you strum

And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings

No voice can hope to hum