1. Butterfly (Kadie's Song)

Heading down the highway, just making tracks for
home The clouds are soft and gray with unshed tears,
The trees are waving back at me with a hundred shades of green
Spring is busy waking up the year.

Force of life so strong you can feel the old earth humming
There's magic in the air, and it's a song of joy that's coming,
Don't you know, you are a butterfly.

The winter of your spirit is leaving you at last
Free to let the winds of change sweep through,
The purifying fire has burned away the old dead wood
And tears, like Spring, have washed you clean and new.

When you're down there on the bottom there's no place to look but up
And when your heart is thirsty there is life to fill your cup,
Don't you know, your soul is being born.

The pain has gone and left your eyes with a new and gentle light
It's not for us to know the reasons why,
Watch the wildflowers winking in the tender blades of grass
Welcome back to life, my friend, you're doing fine.

When you're down there on the bottom there's no place to look but up
And when your heart is thirsty there is life to fill your cup,
Don't you know---your wings are dry, and you can fly.
Welcome back, welcome back new butterfly.

2. Don't Mind the Weather

Starting up the road with a flat-footed stagger
Walking upright is such a blast,
Mommy and Daddy beaming proudly
Looking at the future running past.
Hey, Red Rover, won't you cross over
Then I'll catch you and you'll be "it",
Kick the can and run like the devil
Only thing that's hard to do is just sit.
Happy in the rain and snow and sunshine
Dirty hands and a rip in your pants,
All that matters is to live in the moment,
All that matters is to do the dance.

Don't mind the weather, you can't change it
Don't mind the weather, it's passing through,
Like death and taxes it's always with us
Don't mind the weather, it won't mind you.

Dancing up the road kind of soft and swoony
Humming out loud like a turtle dove,
Loony-tuney, Juney-moony
Sounds like somebody's in love.
Hand in hand and heel and toe-ing
Used to be so fancy-free
Whirling, twirling, boy and girl-ing
Two hearts beating in harmony.
Up ahead there's a storm cloud rising
Thunder, wind, and lightning too,
Blown off course or just a little detour
All depends on your point of view.
And....(Chorus)

Trudging up the road and your knees are aching
All that footwork just a memory,
But kick up your heels and step it lively
Teach those young sprouts a thing or three.
Heel and toe and you've still got it
Twinkle in your eye, you ain't done yet,
Remembering the joys of the journey
Bad times, good times you can't forget.
Up ahead there's a blaze of glory
One star rising in the west,
Maybe it's time to finish up the journey
Dance with the ones you love the best.
And.....(Chorus)

5. Panhandle Waltz

Wide Texas sky, stars hanging high
Ready to dance with the moon,
For miles cross the prairie comes the sound light and airy
Of fiddles beginning to tune.

Going round and around, keep your feet on the ground
If there's romance it's nobody's fault,
Round and around, your heart's lost and found
When they're playing the Panhandle Waltz.

Blue Texas moon and a desert perfume
Magic of spring in the air,
Your troubles and sorrow have to wait for tomorrow
Tonight waltz away all your care. (Chorus)

Light-headed and dizzy, he's the right one, or is he?
Illusion is part of the dance,
The love that you find here you may leave behind here
So gamble, go on, take a chance.(Chorus)

9. Mom's Apple Pie

California highway, not far from Sebastopol
Sign saying "This way to Mom's Apple Pie",
Thoughts of times long ago, such bittersweet memories
Wrapped up in the taste of my mom's apple pie.
"We make our pies out of Gravenstein apples,
Spices from Saigon and faraway lands,
We use only the best, here, I'll give you a sample
Like Mama, we make them with warm loving hands."
Isn't it just what America stands for:
Freedom, Old Glory, and mom's apple pie.
Isn't it just what America stands for:
Freedom, Old Glory, and mom's apple pie.

It was a cool autumn morning, pie on the stove cooling,
Telephone ringing, mom's eyes filled with tears,
If I live to a hundred I still won't understand it
Why daddy only got to live 25 years.
A child still has faith in the wisdom of mama
But though you keep asking she can't tell you why,
Just "His country called and he had to answer
It was his duty to fight and his duty to die."
She said "Child, remember what America stands for:
Freedom, Old Glory, and mom's apple pie,
Always remember what America stands for:
Freedom, Old Glory, and mom's apple pie."

The war drums are beating, hear the speeches on TV
You know that our leaders will stay safe at home,
Send our sons and our daughters off to some foreign country
To be chewed up and spit out and die there alone.
All over the world more people are marching
Nairobi to Paris it's all the same voice,
Sending a message to those with the power
"Live in peace or in pieces",
it's down to a choice.
Friends, is it still what America stands for:
Freedom, Old Glory, and mom's apple pie?
Is it still what America stands for:
Freedom, Old Glory, and mom's apple pie?