The Long Road

Intro: We’ve walked the long road and you’ve worn it well. You stitched yourself up when you fell. Keep your memories in jars Carry secrets in scars Beneath your shell. You’ve seen some good days and some bad ones too.   You weave through fashion and trend.          You’ve seen a sun rise on an ocean blue   You’ve seen it set for the dearest of friends          You found faith but you chose to doubt it.          You found love but you left without it.   And now you don’t want to talk about it.   You travelled down through foreign lands Touched mountain tops and golden sand   Seen pyramids and temples made of stone. Keep seashells in a cashmere scarf A treasured book of photographs   In every single one you stand alone.   You’ve seen Vienna and the Berlin wall As you watched the decades fall The letters that you wrote never made it home.   Your birthdays flew past like June   With Christmas days in hotel rooms And new year?s eve with people you don’t know.          You built friendships but they sailed without you.    You never meant it and that’s why they doubt you.   They don’t ever talk about you.   You’re older than you used to be The mirror weaves a tapestry   Of lines that dance and shimmer ’round your eyes.    You stare back at a man forever holding out his hand As if the answer’s gonna to fall out of the sky. But the penny never dropped   And no man has ever stopped time flying by.