From the recording Old Bottles and Bibles

Lyrics

15. Young Heart
Your letter came today, pushed my young heart away / Careless words crushed the pieces I need to go again
Though my ways aren’t yet refined, your letter was unkind / And the box you want around me needs some holes so I can breathe

Chorus: May your young heart find its way through the jumbled jungle fray
Forever good fortune by your side
May your choices bring you peace; talents grow to meet your needs
May love, love, love surround you

Uncaring, rigid rules like the stubbornness of mules / Trigger verdicts without the thinking that you claim to do
I’ll ignore your obtuse letter, keep striving for the better / And you still have your sheltered world in a box that looks like you Chorus

I know my heart is young, restless unsung / Drifting from familiar, charted places people go / But when I circle back to home from the wonder world I roam / I bring a pocketful of puppies, one for you and you and you Chorus