The Lives You Touch, You Plant a Seed

Dan’s Song
Written and performed at Dan Specht’s Memorial Service by PFIer Kayla Koether

Verse1
The land you love
The life you lead
The lives you touch
You plant a seed
The seasons come
The grasses grow
You learn the song
The ebb and flow

Chorus
May you find firm footing in fertile soil
May you lay you down with the earth awhile
Let her hold you close, whisper all she knows,
as the grasses grow

Verse 2
You may never see
your work’s end come
at the end of day
the setting sun
Though you know it well
Your heart’s glad toil
You may be surprised
At what springs from your soil

Chorus
May you find firm footing in fertile soil
May you lay you down with the earth awhile
Let her hold you close, whisper all she knows
as the grasses grow

Verse 3
As we lay you down
Here with the earth to rest
We look upon ourselves
As by your life’s work blessed
For though you had to go
Back from whence life starts
All those seeds you sowed
They bloomed in our hearts, our hearts
And we’ll find firm footing in your fertile soil
and we will lay you down with the earth awhile
those seeds you sowed,
we’ll help them bloom and grow,
for that is how
you would want it now

(break)
May you find firm footing in fertile soil
may you lay you down with the earth awhile
let her hold you close, whisper all she knows
as the grasses grow

Outro
The land you love
The life you lead
The lives you touch
You plant a seed oh-oooh
You plant a seed