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00:00:14.840 | Welcome to Radical Personal Finance, a show dedicated to providing you with the knowledge,
00:00:19.080 | skills, insight and encouragement you need to live a rich and meaningful life now
00:00:23.160 | while building a plan for financial freedom in 10 years or less.
00:00:26.480 | My name is Joshua. I am your host.
00:00:28.480 | And today I have some relatively simple thoughts for you on what it means to live well.
00:00:34.600 | What is a life well lived?
00:00:37.000 | How do you live well?
00:00:38.760 | I was inspired to create this short show for you because of two influences
00:00:44.760 | that stumbled into my life over the last day or two.
00:00:48.120 | The first was an essay by famous country singer Charlie Daniels
00:00:53.440 | called Observations on Turning 82.
00:00:56.480 | I don't know how I stumbled across this in my web wanderings, but I did.
00:01:01.240 | And he wrote this little essay called Observations on Turning 82.
00:01:04.720 | I'm going to read that to you and then contrast that in just a moment with something else.
00:01:09.360 | Now, I personally pay a lot of attention to this genre of literature
00:01:13.560 | when people write, people who are older,
00:01:16.760 | who are coming into the twilight years of their life, and they write
00:01:20.160 | about what they've learned in living their life.
00:01:23.120 | I pay a lot of attention to what they say.
00:01:25.640 | And I believe that it's an area where we as US Americans are largely deficient
00:01:31.400 | in valuing and honoring and listening to people who are older.
00:01:34.880 | And so I want to help change that.
00:01:38.080 | And so I listen to essays like this very carefully.
00:01:40.520 | I'll just read it to you and then we'll go with the example to compare this to
00:01:44.440 | in just a moment.
00:01:45.760 | Again, Charlie Daniels writes this Observations on Turning 82.
00:01:49.800 | October 28, 2018.
00:01:52.360 | God willing, I will turn 82 years old.
00:01:55.920 | What are you supposed to be doing and how are you supposed to act when you're 82?
00:01:59.600 | Should there be an added degree of sophistication, a thicker veneer of dignity
00:02:04.920 | with most of your attention aimed toward the weightier things of life?
00:02:07.960 | Or maybe sit in a rocking chair and regale anyone who will listen with tales of the good old days.
00:02:13.960 | Or maybe spend your days in a bass rig or on a golf course
00:02:18.240 | or indulging in some sedentary hobby or just sleeping late and learning to name the players
00:02:22.760 | and identify with the ongoing tragedies in the lives of soap opera characters.
00:02:26.800 | Well, to those who choose to spend their golden years in such pursuits,
00:02:31.240 | as they say down under, good on you, mate.
00:02:33.640 | Hats off, kudos, well wishes and bon voyage on your chosen method of cruising into the sunset.
00:02:39.520 | But as for me, I look at my next year of life as another journey through the competition,
00:02:44.080 | hassle, hustle, bustle, fast moving and sometimes trying
00:02:48.480 | an absolutely wonderful world that I have spent the last 60 plus years in.
00:02:53.360 | Half of the 100 plus show dates we'll be doing in 2019 are already on the books.
00:02:59.400 | I have three new CDs and a new book coming out almost simultaneously
00:03:03.520 | with plans for my first novel to be finished and published sometime during the next 14 months.
00:03:08.640 | I have a head full of dreams, bits and pieces of songs, venues that I'd like to play again
00:03:14.240 | and fully intend to make at least one more journey to the Holy Land
00:03:17.320 | before I hang up my international traveling shoes.
00:03:19.800 | I've got quite a lot of musical avenues I'd love to travel down
00:03:23.040 | and people I thoroughly enjoy playing with to travel down them with me.
00:03:26.960 | I'm content with my band, road crew, ranch crew and office staff.
00:03:31.560 | I wouldn't trade even one of my 25 employees
00:03:34.480 | and would be happy to have everybody here for the duration.
00:03:37.040 | I am deliriously happily married and have been for the past 54 years.
00:03:41.680 | My son lives just down the road and stops by to have a meal
00:03:45.120 | or visit with his mother and me in most days.
00:03:47.720 | I have two non-related grandchildren, we assumed grandparenthood for from their birth,
00:03:52.440 | one in grade school and one about to finish college
00:03:55.160 | and we've been blessed through the years to spend a lot of time with them.
00:03:58.440 | The list of people I could call to come and help me
00:04:01.920 | if I ran my car in the ditch at midnight is quite long and at least in my opinion.
00:04:06.160 | The guys in my band all play much better than I do,
00:04:09.400 | always giving me challenges to respond to and mountains to climb in my profession.
00:04:14.920 | I love my church, my pastor is my favorite preacher
00:04:17.720 | and the people who go there are friendly and loving.
00:04:19.720 | I am born again not by anything I've ever done or ever will do
00:04:23.120 | but by the blood of Jesus who promises us an eternal home,
00:04:25.840 | a place of indescribable joy.
00:04:27.840 | I would not change my doorstep one foot in any direction,
00:04:31.080 | living on the exact and only location on earth I feel at home at.
00:04:35.720 | There are good riding horses, fat Hereford cattle in the pastures,
00:04:40.800 | big bass in the pond, squirrels in the hickory trees
00:04:43.800 | and Whitedale deer frolicking in the backwoods.
00:04:46.200 | Hazel's flowers bloom every spring,
00:04:49.080 | there's a big hill in front of the house and a creek at the edge of the property.
00:04:52.440 | We can hear bullfrogs, whippoorwills and the horses nickering on a soft summer evening
00:04:57.720 | and a full moon reflecting in the big pond at the bottom of the hill
00:05:00.800 | just kind of takes your breath away.
00:05:02.240 | I have a head full of musical ideas
00:05:05.000 | and I've even had thoughts of someday writing a symphony.
00:05:08.720 | To say I've been blessed is a gross understatement
00:05:11.280 | but enumerating my blessings for the world to see is not the purpose of this piece.
00:05:15.080 | The real point is I know there are many people who look forward to retirement
00:05:19.320 | and would heartily encourage to go forth on those golden paths and relish your newfound freedom.
00:05:24.040 | But for those of you who, despite your advanced years,
00:05:27.520 | still have a fire in your belly and unaccomplished goals,
00:05:30.920 | don't let a chronological number keep you from relishing the remaining years of your life.
00:05:35.720 | From where I stand I say go for it.
00:05:38.680 | What do you think?
00:05:39.680 | Pray for our troops, our police and the police of Jerusalem.
00:05:42.680 | God bless America.
00:05:43.680 | Charlie Daniels.
00:05:44.680 | And when I read essays like that,
00:05:48.480 | I think about what's involved.
00:05:50.760 | When an author sits down and reflects on their 82nd birthday,
00:05:54.680 | what do they choose to write about? What's important to them?
00:05:57.400 | And of course, since I think a lot about money, I always look to notice
00:06:01.920 | how does money play a role?
00:06:03.960 | Now, don't mistake me.
00:06:06.800 | Money is important.
00:06:08.680 | It's very important.
00:06:09.880 | And somebody like Charlie Daniels, who is an accomplished and
00:06:14.040 | well-known famous musician, I assume and I hope that he's exceedingly rich.
00:06:18.400 | He certainly had a long and successful career in his chosen genres of music.
00:06:23.120 | I hope that he is massively prosperous.
00:06:25.600 | But you notice that many of the things that he writes about aren't specifically related to money.
00:06:31.480 | The closest he gets in this little essay to talking about money
00:06:35.800 | is in reflecting then the place that he lives.
00:06:38.440 | The fact that he lives on a beautiful ranch with good riding horses and fat cattle
00:06:43.240 | in the pastures and bass in the pond and squirrels in the hickory trees
00:06:47.080 | and a beautiful creek at the edge of the property.
00:06:49.280 | Well, that's great.
00:06:50.920 | And he has it takes money to buy a ranch.
00:06:53.640 | But I know a lot of people who live in such beautiful places
00:06:58.280 | and don't have a lot of money.
00:06:59.360 | You don't have to have tens of millions of dollars from a successful
00:07:04.920 | international music career in order to enjoy those things.
00:07:09.040 | So in just a moment, I want to give you six things for you to keep in mind
00:07:15.360 | that stand out to me just about things that lead to a life well-lived,
00:07:20.280 | six areas of goal setting.
00:07:21.840 | But I want to contrast this with a movie that I've just been watching this week.
00:07:27.400 | As you may hear, my voice is quite weak and my family and I, we've
00:07:32.400 | we've all been sick the last few days and it's been, of course, quite the adventure.
00:07:35.760 | Parents have been there when, when you've got mom and dad both sick and you've
00:07:39.640 | got three children all with snotty noses and, and sore throats, et cetera.
00:07:44.640 | It's been one of those, one of those weeks, which is challenging.
00:07:48.400 | And especially when you're living in a little RV and in the middle
00:07:51.680 | of nowhere, it's it's challenging.
00:07:53.720 | But because of being sick, I've slowed down a little bit and I made some
00:07:57.000 | time to watch a couple of movies.
00:07:58.160 | And one of the movies that I have been watching is the Godfather.
00:08:01.800 | Now the Godfather is, I know of course, a well-known movie, probably everyone in
00:08:07.480 | the world other than me has seen it.
00:08:08.800 | Uh, I'm generally, however, a pop culture ignoramus.
00:08:11.880 | And the only way that I really come into contact with much of pop culture is by
00:08:16.200 | friends who, upon finding out about my ignorance, say, no, Joshua, you need to
00:08:20.320 | watch this.
00:08:21.240 | And so before leaving on a trip, a friend of mine gave, uh, gave me the trilogy
00:08:27.040 | of the Godfather one, two, and three.
00:08:29.320 | And my wife and I have watched, um, movies number one and two.
00:08:32.600 | We haven't gotten to number three.
00:08:33.760 | Well, I was reflecting on that and I'll, by the way, spoiler alert, I assume I'm
00:08:38.440 | the last person in the world who hasn't seen these movies, but in thinking about
00:08:43.000 | how utterly dark the Godfather one and two are just how utterly depressing, um,
00:08:50.280 | the man, the protagonists, life's lives are, and who knows, maybe there's a
00:08:54.800 | redemption story and, um, number three, but I'm not really expecting it at this
00:08:59.840 | point.
00:09:00.080 | And again, we'll see when I, when I, when I finish it, but I was just reflecting
00:09:03.480 | on what an awful, awful life these men put together.
00:09:09.000 | Now, of course, the script writers create empathy in you for some of, uh, you know,
00:09:15.240 | for the conditions and the experiences that lead these men to choose such evil
00:09:19.600 | paths.
00:09:20.200 | But when you look at the reality of their life, I mean, we just finished last
00:09:24.240 | night, Godfather two, and you think about the protagonist who, uh, not only, um,
00:09:31.320 | has, you know, he murders his brother-in-law, uh, he murders his own
00:09:37.160 | brother, uh, in addition to the scores of other people that he murders to advance
00:09:42.920 | his career, his wife murders their baby to get even with him because she doesn't
00:09:47.480 | want to, uh, she doesn't want to carry their baby.
00:09:50.200 | And it goes on and on and on.
00:09:52.200 | It's just evil and dark and awful.
00:09:55.200 | And yet the man is obviously wealthy.
00:10:00.600 | And yet the wealth that comes with it is so tainted and so destroyed that
00:10:07.040 | there's no possibility for happiness.
00:10:09.160 | You have a family's destroyed by decisions.
00:10:16.360 | Now in life, we reap what we sow.
00:10:19.520 | And so if you sow evil decisions, you reap evil, but if you sow wise
00:10:23.960 | decisions, you reap wisdom.
00:10:25.720 | So let me give you just six examples that I reflected on from this Charlie
00:10:30.960 | Daniels piece that just made me think.
00:10:34.400 | And again, when you, when you put it up against the foil of protagonists, like
00:10:38.840 | the Godfather, uh, it's stunning just to see the difference that life choices make.
00:10:44.240 | So first, first thing I noticed in Charlie Daniels 82nd birthday reflection
00:10:49.240 | is this, one of the things to cultivate and appreciate is physical health that
00:10:55.360 | allows you to keep going into old age.
00:10:57.520 | If you don't have physical health that allows you to maintain yourself and
00:11:03.240 | maintain your career, maintain your body, maintain your relationships, then it's
00:11:08.200 | hard to look forward to old age.
00:11:10.960 | So there are decisions that we can make today that will help us to maintain
00:11:15.560 | physical health so that we can keep going into old age.
00:11:18.760 | Some of those decisions have to do with the things that we're lectured on
00:11:21.800 | constantly with regard to medical choices.
00:11:24.920 | Some of those decisions are things that are related to our career.
00:11:28.640 | For example, one of the things that I'm convinced of is we should try to choose
00:11:33.600 | careers that we can do for the longterm.
00:11:35.720 | That means that you're probably not going to choose a career that is
00:11:39.200 | physically destructive of your body.
00:11:41.160 | Because if you choose a career that's physically destructive of your body, you
00:11:45.200 | start to reach around 45, 50 years old, and you start to thinking about retiring.
00:11:48.960 | Now, maybe you can transition to something else, but it's much wiser to
00:11:52.800 | think about what is a career that I could do until I'm a hundred.
00:11:55.760 | And if possible, if you have the opportunity, choose a career that will
00:12:00.320 | allow you to stay involved in it for a very long time and to whatever extent
00:12:06.920 | you can influence it and control it, maintain physical health so that you
00:12:10.840 | can keep going into old age.
00:12:13.320 | Number two, choose a career that fascinates you and will allow you for
00:12:18.520 | the opportunity for constant and never ending growth and improvement.
00:12:23.120 | If you notice in what somebody like Charlie Daniels says, and there are many
00:12:27.480 | examples that you can find of this.
00:12:28.720 | This was just one that stumbled across my desk.
00:12:30.720 | And if you notice one of the hallmarks of a good career is something that allows
00:12:35.880 | you to keep growing where you don't get stale, something that you can do that
00:12:41.360 | will allow you to continually get better.
00:12:43.680 | Now that may be a craft that you can improve.
00:12:45.960 | Maybe it's better results.
00:12:48.240 | There are lots of ways in which you can embrace that principle, but find a
00:12:52.080 | career that will be fascinating for you for the longterm, and that will allow
00:12:57.760 | for constant and never ending growth and improvement so that you will never
00:13:03.040 | be the best that you could be.
00:13:05.400 | Because if you do that, it'll keep your interest.
00:13:11.640 | Now, additionally, look for a career that has seasons of life, times of
00:13:17.240 | hustle and work and times of rest, because we need both of those things.
00:13:22.520 | If you live a sedentary and restful life all the time, you don't have the
00:13:27.800 | opportunity to experience the joy of accomplishment and achievement and
00:13:32.400 | the joy of challenge and busyness.
00:13:34.960 | But on the other hand, if you choose a career that's always hustle and
00:13:38.400 | bustle and never has rest, you never get a chance to recharge.
00:13:42.160 | And so the best model is to have something that has times of hustle
00:13:46.520 | and effort and hard work and times of rest and relaxation, and
00:13:51.280 | to build those into your life.
00:13:52.640 | Choose a career that provides you with excellent financial income.
00:13:56.400 | I don't think it has to be millions, but it's got to be excellent
00:14:00.200 | because that income goes far.
00:14:03.040 | It allows you to consistently move yourself out of the things that
00:14:06.800 | you're not well suited to.
00:14:09.280 | And it consistently allows you to do the things that you really love.
00:14:12.120 | If you study the career paths of musicians, there are a lot of really
00:14:15.960 | excellent musicians who in the beginning years of their careers are absolutely
00:14:21.600 | drowned in the minutia of administrative scheduling and managing their careers.
00:14:27.640 | I've not spoken to many musicians who would want to continue that for 60 years.
00:14:34.760 | It's hard to think of an 82 year old musician who would still be enthusiastic
00:14:40.440 | about picking up the phone and calling venues and figuring out all
00:14:43.720 | of the details of ticket sales.
00:14:45.440 | But if you'll choose a career that provides you with good income potential,
00:14:51.120 | then you can focus on those things that you're uniquely skilled at, such
00:14:56.040 | as playing music or writing songs, those things that give you joy.
00:15:00.440 | Some people find joy in the administrative minutia.
00:15:04.240 | And some people find joy in writing songs.
00:15:06.240 | And so one of the benefits of choosing a career that has high financial
00:15:11.680 | prospects is you can continually hire out the things that you're not skilled
00:15:17.480 | at, which leaves you just the opportunity to focus on those things
00:15:20.840 | that you are most skilled at.
00:15:22.600 | Final point on careers, work with people you like and enjoy being together with,
00:15:28.720 | and especially work with people that make you better.
00:15:32.960 | Don't be the most competent person in your sphere of influence.
00:15:37.080 | Work with people that make you better.
00:15:39.120 | So you are stretching and growing and learning and progressing.
00:15:42.840 | When Daniels writes about his crew and his band members and the people who he
00:15:49.040 | enjoys being with, that's important because life is a journey together with
00:15:54.240 | other people, and if you'll be challenged by the people around you, then you'll
00:15:59.920 | continue to enjoy growth.
00:16:01.800 | So first was physical health that allows you to keep going into old age.
00:16:05.480 | Second component of a life well lived, at least from this analysis is a career
00:16:11.160 | that fascinates and allows for constant and never ending growth and improvement.
00:16:14.720 | Number three, rich, loving, peaceful family relationships and friendships.
00:16:19.840 | I repeat rich, loving, peaceful family relationships and friendships.
00:16:25.880 | When you look at the things that people tend to be doing, they're
00:16:30.600 | people tend to most appreciate in life.
00:16:33.400 | As they get older, you find that people focus more and more on relationships.
00:16:40.080 | This struck me in watching the first of the Godfather movies where the
00:16:45.720 | protagonist, the elder Godfather, here he is at the end of his life and the
00:16:49.760 | twilight of his years, and what is he taking joy in?
00:16:52.280 | Playing in the garden with his grandson, playing silly games.
00:17:00.360 | Everything else is stripped away.
00:17:01.840 | Relationships matter, but you have to invest in those relationships because
00:17:09.280 | if you think about relationships of joy versus relationships of pain, consider
00:17:16.680 | again, the plot of these Godfather movies that I've been watching.
00:17:20.400 | Imagine the pain of watching your eldest son be murdered for your own actions.
00:17:29.160 | Imagine the pain of watching your other children fight and quarrel with another.
00:17:34.200 | Imagine the pain if you're aware of it, of knowing that one of your
00:17:38.880 | sons murdered his brother-in-law.
00:17:41.840 | Imagine the pain if you knew of it, of knowing that one of your sons murdered
00:17:47.840 | the other and knowing at the end of the line, you'll have one son, your
00:17:54.520 | youngest, who's basically murdered everyone else in their family.
00:17:59.560 | If you were aware of that as an elderly grandparent, it wouldn't bring much
00:18:07.160 | peace to your life, so cultivate rich, loving, peaceful family relationships
00:18:13.160 | and friendships.
00:18:13.960 | Number four, live in a place that you love, live in your dream location,
00:18:19.560 | whatever that is, live in a place that you love because the small joys of being
00:18:27.000 | in a place that you love will accumulate over time, will lead to a sense of
00:18:31.800 | satisfaction.
00:18:32.680 | Now, this is the only thing on my list of six that requires money.
00:18:38.120 | And what's interesting, if you do all these things, you could actually get
00:18:46.600 | away with never becoming wealthy.
00:18:48.240 | For example, if you were still working and earning income, you could always
00:18:52.520 | just live on that income.
00:18:53.440 | You wouldn't need to save money to be financially independent.
00:18:56.960 | If you had a career that fascinated you and fed your soul and allowed you to
00:19:01.600 | be, use areas of your life that you're skillful, doing work that you care
00:19:06.240 | about with people that you like.
00:19:07.720 | If you were to pursue that, you could continue doing that for a long time.
00:19:12.640 | You wouldn't ever have to freak out about quitting.
00:19:15.360 | You don't need a lot of money for that.
00:19:16.680 | If you're building rich, loving, peaceful family relationships and
00:19:21.200 | friendships, that doesn't cost a lot of money.
00:19:23.760 | You can certainly invest some money into a nice Thanksgiving day spread and some
00:19:27.760 | nice family vacations.
00:19:28.920 | And it's nice to be able to take the whole family on a cruise, but you can take the
00:19:32.320 | whole family to a national park.
00:19:33.680 | You can take the whole family on a cruise.
00:19:35.240 | With one choice, you'll spend a thousand bucks for a week.
00:19:41.400 | And with another choice, you'll spend 8,000 bucks for a week.
00:19:43.880 | Both of those can build rich family relationships.
00:19:52.360 | The only one of these things that takes money is living in a place that you love.
00:19:55.360 | Now stop and think about this for a moment.
00:19:58.400 | If you could today clarify what living in a place that you love looks like.
00:20:04.960 | And if you could arrange to buy such a place and be there, be there for the long
00:20:14.960 | term, you can afford to live in a place that you love.
00:20:22.440 | Whether it's a beautiful ranch, whether it's a penthouse condo.
00:20:27.040 | If you got to buy a place for a million bucks, your dream place, and you finance
00:20:34.400 | it over 30 or 40 years, and you just make that payment every year for 30 or 40 years,
00:20:39.120 | and you stay there, the end of the day, you get to live there for 30, 40 years, and
00:20:43.200 | you get to continue living there and enjoying it.
00:20:44.960 | Even when the mortgage is paid off.
00:20:47.280 | Most people, if they would choose a place that they love and set up a household and
00:20:53.080 | stay there, they could afford to live in their dream location.
00:20:55.760 | It's the constant movement that is very draining on your expenses.
00:21:01.120 | So think about what a place that you love might look like.
00:21:05.880 | Do your very best to live there in your dream location.
00:21:09.080 | Whatever that is.
00:21:11.920 | If you like to hear your horses nickering on a soft summer evening, if you'd like
00:21:16.080 | to look down at the full moon reflecting in the big pond at the bottom of the hill,
00:21:19.680 | build that.
00:21:20.920 | Doesn't cost that much.
00:21:23.240 | Number five, spiritual peace and harmony.
00:21:28.080 | If you can find a place of stability and find spiritual peace in your life, be at
00:21:35.760 | harmony, understand what you believe and why, and achieve that sense of peace, that
00:21:41.840 | peace pervades your life.
00:21:45.360 | It's an important component of a life well lived.
00:21:47.600 | And finally, number six, a vision for the future.
00:21:52.520 | Vision for the future is one of those things that will keep you young.
00:21:56.160 | Always make your future bigger than your past.
00:21:59.080 | Don't look back to the good old days.
00:22:02.720 | Rather forget those things that are behind and press forward to the things that are
00:22:08.960 | ahead, to the upward call of the vision that you have set for yourself.
00:22:14.640 | Vision for the future pulls you forward and keeps you young, keeps you engaged.
00:22:19.600 | It's a far richer life in my opinion, then the life of saving up a bunch of money and
00:22:30.160 | quitting.
00:22:30.480 | I hope this is useful to you.
00:22:35.680 | Whatever you choose to do with your life is up to you, but think about it and read
00:22:43.400 | about what other people have to say when they're older and set your course, because
00:22:48.960 | whatever you set your course to, you'll probably achieve it.
00:22:52.960 | You set your course to be the number one mafia kingpin, wipe out all of your
00:22:59.200 | competition, you'll probably do it.
00:23:00.400 | If you set your course to have another kind of life, you'll probably do that.
00:23:05.080 | Whatever you sow now, that's what you're going to reap in the long term.
00:23:11.840 | My voice is about shot.
00:23:12.960 | I'm glad I got through this.
00:23:14.360 | I had to pause a couple of times to cough.
00:23:16.000 | I'm going to close out just for fun.
00:23:18.000 | I'll play for you my personal, my personal favorite Charlie Daniels song.
00:23:22.400 | It's an old song called "Hi Lonesome" and it puts a picture, it always has put a
00:23:27.200 | picture in my head of something that I personally desire.
00:23:29.960 | Like music has a way of doing that to you.
00:23:32.080 | And so I hope you enjoy this and go forth and think about those things that, those
00:23:40.400 | decisions that you can make.
00:23:41.680 | Remember those decisions are probably not going to be limited by money.
00:23:44.400 | Choose to build physical health that will keep you going into old age.
00:23:48.360 | Choose a career that fascinates and allows for constant and never ending
00:23:51.920 | growth and improvement.
00:23:52.920 | Build rich, loving, peaceful family relationships and deep enduring
00:23:57.280 | friendships.
00:23:58.080 | Live in a place that you love and pursue spiritual peace and harmony in your life
00:24:03.320 | and develop a vision for the future.
00:24:06.720 | [Music]
00:24:07.720 | [Music]
00:24:08.720 | [Music]
00:24:09.720 | [Music]
00:24:11.720 | [Music]
00:24:12.720 | [Instrumental]
00:24:41.720 | Just you and me and a little white pup
00:24:44.720 | Sitting here waiting for the sun to come up
00:24:49.720 | Keepin' chill away
00:24:54.720 | Drinking our coffee at the first crack of dawn
00:25:01.720 | Watching a doe while she nuzzles her phone
00:25:07.720 | It's my favorite time of day
00:25:11.720 | I long so
00:25:21.720 | God don't ever let this mountain change
00:25:30.720 | I long so
00:25:38.720 | I hope you'll always stay the same
00:25:44.720 | Sometimes in the evening when it's all kinda still
00:25:51.720 | Sweet mountain music floats over the hill
00:25:57.720 | For tomorrow's sitting breeze
00:26:01.720 | Sometimes when the night birds are scolding the mist
00:26:08.720 | I think I might know where heaven is
00:26:13.720 | It's just above the trees
00:26:21.720 | I long so
00:26:28.720 | God don't ever let this mountain change
00:26:35.720 | I long so
00:26:46.720 | I hope you'll always stay the same
00:26:53.720 | [Instrumental]
00:27:21.720 | [Instrumental]
00:27:50.720 | [Instrumental]
00:27:56.720 | Watching my summer times turn into falls
00:28:00.720 | Seeing my son growing honest and tall
00:28:05.720 | Keeps me satisfied
00:28:10.720 | If I live forever or I die today
00:28:18.720 | All I would ask is you just let me lay here
00:28:22.720 | On this mountainside
00:28:28.720 | I long so
00:28:37.720 | I long so
00:28:46.720 | I long so
00:28:55.720 | [Instrumental]
00:29:01.720 | [Instrumental]
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00:29:33.720 | (dramatic music)