Another Winter Gone

Another winter gone
dandelions on the neighbor's lawn
the world so heavy with becoming
somehow I breathe you in
and I'm a kid again
tasting summer

Did you make 'em laugh?
Did they mistake you for a photograph?
They'd never know you in the flesh
and did you drink alone?
Did it feel like home?
Did you try your best?

Where did you go Marie?
And can you tell us what you've seen?
Did your traveling shoes lead you down the same old street?
And if I kissed your face
would you turn away?
Would you say how strange to find ourselves
back here in this place?

These days are different though they may look the same to you
you don't know nothing about nothing when you're 22
we can't close our eyes
we can't start over new
and we can't give ourselves to dreams the way young dreamers do

it's painful slow
the way a house becomes a home
so much loving, so much losing, so. much hoping
and the world may shake
but if your heart still breaks
you are not broken

Where did you go Marie?
And can you tell us what you've seen?
DId you find that love or was it really just a dream?
And if I kissed your face
would you turn away?
Would you say how strange to find ourselves
back here in this place