Enough To Be On Your Way Lyrics - James Taylor

Notes: 

Jt on sony.com: my brother alex died in '93 on (not for) my birthday. we all went down to florida to say goodbye. the day after we flew home (the day after his cremation) a giant mother hurrican 

Lowed us north through the carolina's; trashing everything in it's path and finally raining record rains on martha's vineyard (home). 

In paris, a year later I changed his character to a hippie chick named alice and the location to santa fe; but my soulful older brother is still all over this song like a cheap suit. 

Almost fuck-free. 

The sun shines on this funeral 

The same as on a birth 

The way it shines on everything 

That happens here on earth 

It rolls across the western sky 

And back into the sea 

And spends the days last rays 

Upon this fucked-up family 

So long old pal 

The last time I saw alice 

She was leaving santa fe 

With a bunch of round-eyed buddhists 

In a killer chevrolet 

Said they turned her out of texas 

Yeah she burned 'em down back home 

Now she's wild with expectation 

On the edge of the unknown 

Chorus: 

Oh it's enough to be on your way 

It's enough just to cover ground 

It's enough to be moving on 

Home, build it behind your eyes 

Carry it in your heart 

Safe among your own 

They brought her back on a friday night 

Same day I was born 

We sent her up the smoke stack 

And back into the storm 

She blew up over the san juan mountains 

And spent herself at last 

The threat of heavy weather 

That was what she knew the best 

Chorus 

It woke me up on a sunday 

An hour before the sun 

It had me watching the headlights 

Out on highway 591 

'til I stepped into my trousers 

'til I pulled my big boots on 

I walked out on the mesa 

And I stumbled on this song 

Chorus