Prodigal Lyrics

Brother Danny was a fisher of men

He cast his jigs across the Arkansas sands

Hooked a line on his finger and he played in the band

Every Sunday and we said Amen

You had your guitar on your lap on the banks

Had your strings tangled up in the trees

You wrote me a letter and explained it all to me

You said a brother is a promise that you keep

When your father is a son of god

And you are the son of the son

A brother is a brother and to doubt

It is a creek you have to cross

Like the Prodigal who never left at all

I sat down in the corner at the drums

We opened up together in a chord

I saw tears in your eyes when the spirit hit the floor

I didn't like it but you didn't know what for

And after lunch you asked me if I still believed

In a spirit that would never come to me

You asked me what it was like on the far side of the creek

I told the truth, sometimes it gets lonely

When your father is a son of god

And you are the son of the son

A brother is a brother and to doubt it

Is a creek you have to cross

And when your spirit leaves your body like a fog

And you're left on the banks all alone

A friend is a brother and to doubt

It is a creek you have to cross

Like the Prodigal who never left at all

That summer was the last time we spoke

I was shaking when you called me on the phone

You told me you were moving but you'd be back in the fall

Twenty years later and I finally get the call