Love and Theft

Can you hear me? One more step you sink

Worry, worry, worry, hear me singin' through the fence

I have seen you struggle, hidin' it within

You should know your burden, it's so much bigger than you think

Where you walked, inch-deep footprints

In your voice, no cry for help, an empty echo

From screamin' into the wishing well

Where your dreams sank like cement

Worry, worry, worry, hear me singin' through the fence

Further yonder back in time, can you smell the lake and feel the sky?

Do those bleached pictures come alive?

Street legal on the stereo

Drive for hours through endless summer nights

Didn't understand a word yet it seemed to explain most everything

There was to know about this life waitin' for us

I've seen what you're running from

I've been runnin' for too long, I'm not even sure which side I'm on

Or which I came from

Ain't no secret way out of here

I should know now, shouldn't I? Look at me just sittin' here

Leanin' 'gainst the very same fence

Brother, who am I to tell you to turn around, turn around?

All I got to say is

And you are with me, back in the backseat of the car

He's hummin' along to the song, you're tucked in sleepin', safe

And peaceful passin' lakes and birches bowin' for us

We drove into a tunnel, how long are we gonna be drivin', Dad?

Memories sharp as broken glass, look, sixteen years has passed

His old friends with final farewells and flowers

Love and Theft playing for hours, planes crashin' into towers

I'm not comin' over, I'm comin' through

I wanna get to you, can you tell me where we headed now?

Ain't no secret way out of here

I should know now, look at me, how long I been sittin' here

Leanin' 'gainst the very same fence

Brother, who am I to tell you to turn around, turn around?

All I've got to say is