Broken Doe Lyrics 💔 🦌 FTP 4/11/26 - Savannah, GA
This song instantly captivated me so I decided to spend couch tour set break transcribing the lyrics. Corrections/suggestions welcome!
Billy introduced this song as having been inspired by a deer that he noticed shortly after moving into a new neighborhood. It had a crooked leg of unknown origin (hit by car, birth defect?). He explains that he wrote the doe off as one whose days were numbered. To his surprise, despite her disability, she appears year after year with new young fawns.
"I think it's a nice kind of reminder that we can keep on even if we got a crooked leg."
Cowritten with "my buddy Tom."
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Dodging cars and dodging guns
Thinking fast cause you can't run
Taking care of little ones
Two more every spring
Your eyes are wise, your eyes are kind
A window to a different mind
You're not bound by space or time
Like a summer wind
Broken and slow
Straight and upright ain't the only way
They don't know what we know
'Bout being broken, broken doe
In the garden doing all you can
Escape the constructs made by man
Part for us to understand
But not for us to know
Just like a light from deep within
The morning dew, our next of kin
I know exactly where you've been
And where you're gonna go
Broken and slow
Straight and upright ain't the only way
They don't know what we know
'Bout being broken, broken doe
Broken and slow
Straight and upright ain't the only way
They don't know what we know
'Bout being broken, broken doe
They don't know what we know
'Bout being broken, broken doe
