All This Time

I saw it for a second, but then the light was fading

Sister morphine was my lady in waiting

Can I help it if I can't help it now?

All the stories I tell myself

What can I say to you all?

It's fair to say, no words will do

'Cause all this time, the time is speeding, it's

Hard to recognize the life we're leaving

It's time to trip the light of the evening and go now

And in this land, there's shade and shadow

We break bread and consecrate the battle

Cradle to the grave and sword to the saddle

It's each other we will miss

Oh, the happiest moment of my life

Was the saddest moment of my life

Was in prison when my daddy died

They didn't tell me for fear of suicide

Told me when I got outside

I started using as soon as I was alone that night

And I died and I went straight to him

He said, "Where you been, my troubled son?"

All this time, the time is speeding, it's

Hard to recognize the life we're leaving

It's time to trip the light of the evening and go now

And in this land, there's shade and shadow

We break bread and consecrate the battle

Cradle to the grave and sword to the saddle

It's each other we will miss

Oh, the happiest moment of my life

Was the saddest moment of my life

Oh, my love, can I

Just sit and hold your face?

We finally made it here

But now the light is low

All this time, the time is speeding, it's

Hard to recognize the life we're leaving

It's time to trip the light of the evening and go now

And in this land, there's shade and shadow

We break bread and consecrate the battle

Now I'm feeling kind of faint, I think I need to lay down

Oh, you almost saved me

You almost saved me

You almost saved me now

You almost saved me now

You almost saved me now

You almost saved me now

(You almost saved me, you almost saved me now)

Oh, and all this time, we pledge allegiance

To the tune of a thousand treasons

(You almost saved me now)

One nation under something, under water, under mass incarceration

(You almost saved me now)

In the age of feast and famine

Can we disrupt the social canon?

Let our children lead, so we all believe

(You almost saved me now)

Let us see the forest for the trees

(You almost saved me now)