Henning Kvitnes Wooden Bridge song lyrics

'Wooden Bridge' from Henning Kvitnes fantastic album Heartland (1999)

Great americana by this Norwegian artist.

I love the smell of your coffee in the morning

and the smell of our daughter's hair

and I know the love we share

is something true and rare

It is nothing we take for granted

it took us years to come this far

so now my wishes go to someone else when I see a shooting star

Give me an old wooden bridge to fish from

and a cool clear stream running west

let me watch the birds catch their supper

to take home to their nursery-nests

so many things I thought I wanted

so few I really need

so many years been wasted working for my greed

I love to walk on sunny summer mornings

when the air's still cool and clear

up to that crag about a mile from our house

where I just sit and stare out over the valley

across the fields and across the fjord

I just practice doing nothing and it never makes me bored

Give me an old wooden bridge to fish from

and a cool clear stream running west

let me watch the birds catch their supper

to take home to their nursery-nests

so many things I thought I wanted

so few I really need

so many years been wasted working for my greed

I will head on for tomorrow leave these yesterdays behind

some only gave us sorrow but quite a few were just fine

Sometimes I even thought that a good life

could be from heaven sent

cause I could not know that life was just

those days that came and went.

Give me an old wooden bridge to fish from

and a cool clear stream running west

let me watch the birds catch their supper

to take home to their nursery-nests

so many things I thought I wanted

so few I really need

so many years been wasted working for my greed