Where It Goes Lyrics

I hung one picture on the wall where I can see it

I never care to decorate this studio apartment

It's just a little sketch of Venice that I got last year

Charcoal and paper, somewhere far from here

A love I had and lost went just like the desert rain

Still read the books she left and cast us on to every page

A life in echoes now, I'm somewhere in between

Always looking back and writing what it means

I miss each season when it goes

The lust of summertime, the dead of snow

It goes too fast before I know

All of the moments I couldn't hold

Outside my window there's an ebb and flow that anchors me

Still love this city and try to hold on to the poetry

The streets of dreams that turn to dust and bloom and grow, decay

You're all alone with everyone alone in the same way

It's January and Manhattan's made for leaving

I find a cabin in the snow atop the stone

And stand amid the silence, hear the wind blow through the evergreens

And think it's there where I belong

I miss each season when it goes

The weeping willow, the winter glow

It goes too fast and slips from my hold

And leaves me longing and makes me old

There is a violence in the twilight

All my life, betting on an ask of time

That when it goes, it isn't leaving

And there's more than a silver line

Oh, I wanna be here for the heart baby

I wanna be the piece you trust

After the first chill of October

When we're winding down and dressing up

Still by the reservoir, a mile outside the bleeding light

Must have been here a thousand times by now, in the dead of night

Yes time's a fickle friend, it caught me by surprise

I knew it would, I called it back when I was twenty-five

I hope my parents have at least twenty more healthy years

Me and my brother know the quiet strength their love endears

There's still a mountaintop, a flag still left to find

Among the many dead ideas still inside my mind I know

I love each season when it comes

Romance of autumn, the July sun

It goes too fast, that's how it goes

Sand through my fingers, moments I chose

It goes too fast, that's how it goes

Sand through my fingers, moments I chose