I hope you spend your days writing verses on your page
May your life be a Walden Pond swim
Taking showers in the cold and your glasses filled to their brims
And I hope you treat your heart real nice and real smart
May your life be a Walden Pond swim
Can't be worthless seeing stars, buying rocky roads for me and him
Stay in that water and keep where you're feeling fine
But I'm just the daughter of a man who lives on oak and wine
And I'll swim like my father
And remember hard days
Driving miles cross county lines
And I hope you realize why the clouds are always crying
May your life be a Walden Pond dive
Shaking flowers out the ground while you live the life you did at five
And I hope it's testified for you the best had been denied
May your life be a Walden Pond swim
May you find a love to last and the times you have are never grim
Stay in that water and keep where you're feeling fine
But I'm just the daughter of a man who lives on oak and wine
And I'll swim like my father
And remember good days
Driving miles cross county lines
I've still got those pictures that I found in a bucket, they're all up on my wall
And I've still got those paintings that you did for my birthday way back in the fall
And I've still got those pictures that I found in a bucket, they're all up on my wall
And I've still got those paintings that you did for my birthday way back in the fall