Crosby, Stills & Nash Carry Me Lyrics

When I was a young man, I found an old dream.
It was as battered and worn a one, as you have ever seen.
I invented some new wings, and I painted a nose,
I wished so hard, up in the air, I rose, singing:
Carry me, carry me, carry me above the world. Carry me, carry me, carry me.

And I once loved a girl, she was younger than me.
Her parents kept her locked, up in their lives,
and she was crying, she was wishing she could be free.
Of course I mostly remember her laughing, standing there and watching us play.
For a while then, the music, would take her away and she'd be singing:
Carry me, carry me, carry me above the world.
Carry me, carry me, carry me above the world.

Then there was my mother,
she was lying in white sheets there and she was waiting to die.
She said if you just reach underneath this bed, and untie these weights, I could surely fly.
She's still smiling but she's tired, she'd like to hear that last bell ring.
You know if she still could she would, stand up, she would sing.
Carry me, carry me, carry me above the world. Carry me, carry me, carry me...