Everything Is Cool - John Prine
"Everything Is Cool" (written by John Prine, first on Prine's 1991 The Missing Years album)
from "Town & Country with John Prine" on Channel Four
aired 1990
LYRICS
Everything is cool
Everything's okay
Why just before last Christmas
My baby went away
Across the sea to an island
While the bridges brightly burned
So far away from my land
The valley of the unconcerned
I was walking down the road, man
Just looking at my shoes
When God sent me an angel
Just to chase away my blues
I saw a hundred thousand blackbirds
Just flying through the sky
They seemed to form a teardrop
From a black haired angel's eye
Those tears fell all around me
And they washed my sins away
Now everything is cool
Everything's okay
And I find it so surprising
For myself to hear me say
That everything is cool
Everything's okay
Everything is cool
Everything's okay
Why just before last Christmas
My baby went away
Across the sea to an island
Where the bridges brightly burned
So far away from my land
The valley of the unconcerned
I was walking down the road, man
Just looking at my shoes
When God sent me an angel
For to chase away my blues
I saw a hundred thousand blackbirds
They was flying through the sky
They seemed to form a teardrop
From a black haired angel's eye
That tear fell all around me
And washed my sins away
Now everything is cool
Everything's okay
And I find it so surprising
For myself to hear me say
That everything is cool
Everything's okay
Why it was just before last Christmas
My baby went away