Bear | Tim O'Brien and Jan Fabricius

🎵 Bear | Tim O'Brien and Jan Fabricius 🎵 - Length: 0:3:14

Bear - Written by Tim O'Brien Recorded Live September 14, 2023 Live from Norfolk Street is an on-going concert series recorded live at McGonigel's Mucky Duck in Houston, Texas. Our live-streamed concert series is listener supported. For access to our catalog of full length shows, extras, encores, and interviews, become a contributing member at: https://livefromnorfolkstreet.com/ Lyrics: I’m a bear he cried, but I’m more than that There’s something you need to remember I’m an integral community member, I’m neither tame nor feral You ignore me at your peril, I’m a bear Bear looked behind him and side to side Saw a tree he could climb if he needed to hide He’d been asleep all winter, of course he knew he stank But he could smell that smoke a-coming from across the far creek bank Chorus Wood chips and stumps where the trees had been Piles of rocks and logs so they’re building again He growled “this world’s gone crazy, trying to close me in I need more room to move” and then he reared back and roared again Chorus You won’t see me at the village fair Ring in my nose, dancing round in the square I’d rather drink muddy water, sleep in a hollow log Than to have you try to train me, like some jumpin’ circus dog Chorus Heard gunshots out on the eastern plain He turned west to the mountain and the driving rain He said “someday I’ll fight ‘em, with my back turned to the wall Until that day I’ll keep on walkin, keep on walking tall” Chorus