Bread Crumbs Lyrics

I like to write the lyrics first

Ideas that come to me

Songs of love and life and hurt

Of mountains and the sea

They're kinda biographical,

Part fiction, part real,

It's hard to write about the things,

That other people feel.

Writing songs, I'm

Leavin' bread crumbs,

In the key of G,

Songs of places that I've been,

So you'll remember me.

Even though it's optional,

I like the words to rhyme,

My mind must be a metronome,

It thinks in 4-4 time.

The music part is harder, 'cause,

It's kinda new to me,

But I've been telling stories since,

Five or four or three.

Writing songs, I'm

Leavin' bread crumbs,

In the key of G,

Songs of places that I've been,

So you'll remember me.

Far from now, the by and by

When I can't make a sound

You'll have these words I wrote for you, so

I'll still be around

I know they're sad and I know

I can be a little blue

But writing them felt good and maybe

Listening will, too

Writing songs,

I'm leaving bread crumbs,

In the key of G,

Songs of places that I've been,

So you'll remember me.

Writing songs,

Like bread crumbs,

For fa-mil-ly and friends,

Stories that will carry on,

When storytelling ends.