everyone was once a child who heard the words,
“I knew you back before you walked and talked,
I held you then, and now you’re all grown up,”
strangers on a front porch laugh about lives I know nothing of,
except that I have laughed on porches more than once myself,

and we were all in school together,
and may still be, whether we’re aware at all,
everything will fall into place, someday or never,
it hardly matters, when forever comes apart,
I’ll gather pieces of my scattered heart..

when you think about it, every addict’s in withdrawal,
that’s why we’re looking for the chemicals that put the hurting off,
when you think about it, all the big lies start out small
it takes years and years of practice till we learn to pull them off,

words are signposts, but words are smokescreens,
love’s a fine ghost, she makes a big scene,
I think I’ll just coast, I’m tired of running..

we were all in school together,
and may still be, whether we’re aware at all,
everything will fall into place, someday or never,
it hardly matters, when forever comes apart,
I’ll gather pieces of my scattered heart..

everyone was once a child who heard the words,
“I knew you back before you walked and talked,
I held you then, and now you’re all grown up..”