The Way That It's Gone Lyrics

The heat descends upon the earth

The divine of life erupting into song

Sun highest in the sky until its next return

At the rate that these days pass it won't be too long

My skin it knows the feeling of fire

But my heart is still beating in the snow and the dark

We've travelled through this winter

Through spring and into summer

And we've reached understanding at last

And so it ends

And so it begins again

Our dance with the darkness and the light

And so we'll live our lives on the periphery of each other

Hearts tender and broken and loving despite

The way that it's gone

The way that I've hurt you

And the way that I've been hurt by other things too

The way that it's gone

The way that it'll be going

But what a gift to love and be loved by you

I was too scared to know myself too deeply

When broken by a violence I didn't expect

Closed to the heart where grief nested and made home of hearth

A pain that took away my breath

But this pain it barricaded myself from you

And like the frosty northern wind I cut you deep

All you tried to do was understand

As I thrashed in my imagined cage

What I do to you I also do to me

And so it ends

And so it begins again

Our dance with the darkness and the light

And so we'll live our lives on the periphery of each other

Hearts tender and broken and loving despite

The way that it's gone

The way that I've hurt you

And the way that I've been hurt by other things too

The way that it's gone

The way that it'll be going

But what a gift to love and be loved by you

May this ending bring us closer to ourselves

In ways we couldn't anticipate before

You found a voice under the layers

That said you deserved better

My voice was humbled and needing something more

Than scattered attachment

Or the illusion of freedom

What you offered was a love beyond those binds

Now I sit with the loss

And open up to yours

And hope our hearts can mend with patience and time

And so it ends

And so it begins again

Our dance with the darkness and the light

And so we'll live our lives on the periphery of each other

Hearts tender and broken and loving despite

The way that it's gone

The way that I've hurt you

And the way that I've been hurt by other things too

The way that it's gone

The way that it'll be going

But what a gift to love and be loved by you