Hay Ride

**VERSE 1** They loaded everybody up on the back of the wagon Straw bales on both sides and nowhere else to be The tractor pulled us out through the rows of the orchard And you put your arm around me like it was easy Like it was always going to be this Like you knew **VERSE 2** The kids were at the front pointing at everything The sky was doing something nobody could name That particular blue you only get in October When the light comes low and nothing looks the same And you were there You were right there **PRE-CHORUS** I don't need the destination I just need the slow of it The horses and the harvest air And you next to me in the middle of it This is it This is everything --- **CHORUS** Hay ride, hay ride, slow and golden through the field Hay ride, hay ride, this is everything I feel The whole wide world can keep on moving fast as it wants to go But right here on this wagon with you I am learning to be slow Hay ride with you --- **VERSE 3** We came back to the barn when the sun was nearly done Somebody had cider waiting and the kids had had enough You helped me down and held my hand a second longer Than you had to and I loved you for it so much So much You don't even know *(pre-chorus)* I don't need the destination I just need the slow of it The horses and the harvest air And you next to me in the middle of it This is it This is everything *(chorus)* Hay ride, hay ride, slow and golden through the field Hay ride, hay ride, this is everything I feel The whole wide world can keep on moving fast as it wants to go But right here on this wagon with you I am learning to be slow Hay ride with you --- **BRIDGE** There's a whole life happening around us Fast and loud and asking for our attention But sometimes you climb up on a wagon in October And everything reduces down to one intention Just this Just now Just you and me and straw and sky Just the way the trees look when they're letting go Just your hand in mine Just slow --- **FINAL CHORUS** Hay ride, hay ride, slow and golden through the field Hay ride, hay ride, this is everything I feel The whole wide world can keep on moving fast as it wants to go But right here on this wagon with you *(tag, gentle and fading)* I am learning to be slow I am right where I want to be Hay ride with you Slow Just slow ---