The Long Road
You'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 and scars beneath your shirt
You've seen some good days and some bad ones too
You weave through fashion and trend
You've seen the 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 you don't want to talk about it
You traveled down to foreign lands
Touched mountain tops and golden sands
Seen pyramids and temples made of stone
Keep seashells in a cashmere scarf
Treasure book of photographs
And every single one you stand alone
You've seen Vienna and the Berlin Wall
And as you watch the decades fall
The letters that you wrote never made it home
Birthdays flew past like June
With Christmas days in hotel rooms
And New Years 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
And they don't ever talk about you
And you're older than you used to be
The narrow weaves of tapestry
Of lines that dance and shimmer around your eyes
And you stare back at a man
Forever holding out his hand
As if the answer's going to fall out of the sky
But the penny never dropped
No man has ever stopped time
From flying by