Nobody Saw Me Finish It

Lyrics

I painted the fence at the edge of town
Three summers' worth of weather wearing down
White on white on peeling gray
Nobody asked me, nobody paid
I just got tired of watching it fall

Nobody saw me finish it
Just the crickets and the sky
A job well done is its own kind of song
You hum it when you're walking by
Nobody saw me finish it
And that's alright, that's alright
The porch light knows what I did today
And that's enough tonight

I fixed the church's rusty gate
Oiled the hinge, so it wouldn't squeal
Folks swing it open Sunday morning
Never wonder how it feels
So smooth, so soft, so quietly right

Nobody saw me finish it
Just the crickets and the sky
A job well done is its own kind of song
You hum it when you're walking by
Nobody saw me finish it
And that's alright, that's alright
The porch light knows what I did today
And that's enough tonight

Mama said the best things grow
Where no one's looking, soft and slow
Roots go deep in the dark
Heart and hands will leave their mark

Nobody saw me finish it
Just the crickets and the sky
A job well done is its own kind of song
You hum it when you're walking by
Nobody saw me finish it
And that's alright, that's alright
The porch light knows what I did today
And that's enough tonight

That's enough tonight
Porch light on, that's enough tonight