White Trash Folk/Derek Fuller: "Bridges"
Lyrics and Music © Rick Shelton and Derek Fuller

Foundations crumble, and houses they fall down
Even ghosts can go and leave nothing in this town
The water may rise, but the tides always fade away
And flowers bloom, but they've gotta turn brown again some day

So we'll pack our bags, I'll head West if you go East
It's not such an easy thing, no not in the very least
So go follow the sunrise, and I will go chase the moon
Maybe we'll meet again but not so very soon

If you don't burn a few bridges
You'll just keep walking the same old roads
And where the path untraveled leads to
Is a future you'll never know
So put the match to timbers
Reduce that bridge to embers
And don't forget to laugh while you're watching it burn
No don't forget to laugh while you're watching it burn

The leaves they fall but they always grow back again
A man can't be truly good, until he's has his share of sin
The sun gave us life, some day it will burn us all
Like mountains standing strong, we can still crumble and fall

Was it one of Time's oldest secrets, that dug into our hearts
And kept us all growing, until we grew so far apart?
Did we stay up too late, or have one too many epiphanies,
Or stare too hard out at the ocean, until we drifted like the seas?

If you don't burn a few bridges
You'll just keep walking the same old roads
And where the path untraveled leads to
Is a future you'll never know
So put the match to timbers
Reduce that bridge to embers
And don't forget to laugh while you're watching it burn
No don't forget to laugh while you're watching it burn
Please think of me and laugh while you're watching it burn