Time runs along
distilling the familiar
until a faint taste upon our lips

Running to our western windows
we catch final glimpses
of all we held near

Nodding our head
knowing these days would come
we put on our jacket

The past has run cold
closeness is far
and we strain to see its embers

But now it returns?
since longed long enough
it all came back!

But no, it's different
changed
unfamiliar

For beams
in eastern skies
fracture the horizon

And what we see
only clearly reflected
is that the dead buried their own

But turning we see light
growing from lifeless earth
nourished from yesterday

Stepping into the unfamiliar
we feel the warmth on our face
and remember that life not always sets

And the cycle continues
challenging us to remember
that this we've been told before

And knowing that tonight life will descend
and dusk will silence what dawn revived
we resolve to remember that the sun, it also rises

Bigger conversation
Loftier explanation
Lost in keeping up
and scrambling for comprehension

Scrapping who we were
cause now is better than ever
And the piano plays
the repeating bridge
Never arriving

Anticipation builds
and builds

and

builds
and



And it never turns over
We were waiting
but we'd never heard the chorus before
and we'd thought we'd recognize it

Sounds so strange to our ears
So far from what we think we'd choose for ourselves
But we just pushed the chords
yet could not feel our fingers

But the crowds clap their hands
filling our heads with applause
and we smile like we meant it
but inwardly
our eyes dance
to the right
to the left
knowing
we can't repeat

And so we are
to them
Something bigger
Something loftier
Capable of keeping up

But to us
But to I
and to me
We're all just scrambling for comprehension
Praying for the ability to encore