Winds of Change

Dust devils dancin'
Across the Alabama hillside
That storm was brewing
Out on the Dixie skyline
The sky grew black as coal
In the middle of the day
My great-granddaddy watched
As his house was blown away

Winds of change came calling
Hit them without warning
The foundation was all that remained
Everything else was carried away
Carried away

I was in the Windy City
Good Friday, 1982
We were sittin' pretty
Cooking steaks on the barbecue
Two thousand miles of telephone wire
Brought word of the tragedy
My daddy's heart lay silent now
He had been taken, taken from me
He was carried away

Winds of change came calling
They hit them without warning
That foundation was all that remained
Everything else was carried, carried away

Winds of change come calling
Hit us without warning
Let all we need be all that remains
Let everything else be carried away

Winds of change come calling
Hit us without warning
Let our foundation be all that remains
Let everything else be carried, carried away

Winds of change come calling
Hit us without warning
Winds of change come calling
Carried away
Carried away