Mortar and Stone

Some words that I am loving right now. 

Mortar & Stone All around us The ground is opening up With a terrible thirst And it's swallowing down All the hope in this town Of the way that we were There's a smoldering pile Where there once was a life Where there once was a home Now the only safe place Takes a village of strength We can't do it alone We're not going down When the wolf comes to blow If we build our house With mortar and stone
Stones are the ones that we love And they're gathering up Forming a wall And the mortar within Is the time that we've spent To set it in strong
And it's a daily build Always some cracks to fill Always some hole in the roof Letting the rain get through And when it just won't stop The creek is rising up Running over the banks Can't keep the flood away
But when the water recedes  We're still standing right here If we build our house With mortar and stone
We're not going down When the wolf comes to blow If we build our house With mortar and stone
Written by Jill Phillips and Andy Gullanorn Copyright The Gullahorns Music, ASCAP, 2014
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House in the Field - Pastel Painting - by Victoria Ryan

 ("the wise man built his house upon the rocks and the rains came tumbling down the rains came down and the floods came up and the house on the rock stood still")
-southern folk song