Canyons & Caverns Lyrics - The First Ten Years - Shawn Mullins

On a mantle made of oakwood 

There's a photograph from my childhood 

It was taken in the desert early light 

I look a lot like a leprechaun 

With a Mexican vest and a red hippie hat on 

Maracas in my left hand and stick in my right 

And there are canyons, there are caverns 

There are border roadside taverns 

I am held captive by the big blue sky above me 

She naps with the TV on 

I smell the June cut grass from my pappys lawn 

I play alone in the little room upstairs, hey, hey, hey 

There are Lincoln logs and cookie tins 

And colored blocks and wars to win 

I draw and I dream and beat my drums up there 

There are circus lights and maple leaves 

And there are daffodils and dogwood trees 

And I am held captive by the big blue sky above me, yeah 

Now the coffee's strong and the fruit's all wrong 

And my, my wakeup call's for somebody else 

And now the TV's hoax and neurosis jokes 

Always keep my laughing at myself 

I laugh a lot and that's what I do 

And I learn the things that I never knew 

I see canyons, I see caverns 

And I see border roadside taverns 

And I am held captive by the big blue sky above me 

I'm captive only by the big blue sky 

I am held captive by the big blue sky above me