[INTRO - gentle instrumental] [Verse 1] The countryside is beautiful, mountains blue and grey, With tints of smoke haze drifting through the distant view, Yet somehow still a beautiful day. The mountains fade behind the haze of blue, The winding roads roll softly through the land, And every bend reveals another view. [Chorus] Do you see what I see When I look around this place? The hands that built, the lives that lived, The footprints time can't erase. We rush along, we pass it by, Too busy to take note, But there's a story in every street, And a past beneath our feet. [Verse 2] I wander down the main street of this town, An ancient skeleton of times gone by, Where weathered buildings slowly settle down. They stand as quiet witnesses beneath the sky, Built on the backs of those who came before, The pioneers who made a life here by and by. [Chorus] Do you see what I see When I look around this place? The hands that built, the lives that lived, The footprints time can't erase. We rush along, we pass it by, Too busy to take note, But there's a story in every street, And a past beneath our feet. [Verse 3] But does the man of today still see the past? Does he look beyond the life that's passing by, Or are those older stories fading fast? Are our eyes and minds so busy passing by, Dealing with each day, with everything super-imposed, That we no longer stop to question why? And all around us, history lies exposed, In every weathered stone and old dirt road, A thousand lives beneath the world we've closed. [Chorus] Do you see what I see When I look around this place? The hands that built, the lives that lived, The footprints time can't erase. We rush along, we pass it by, Too busy to take note, But there's a story in every street, And a past beneath our feet. [OUTRO - quiet, reflective] So slow your step and look around, Before the old fades away, There's history beneath your feet, Still speaking every day. Do you see what I see?
