Don't remember much the day I heard the news
Just stared out at the sky, it was the color of a bruise
No way to anticipate the ambush by your eyes
Blending with the underbrush, coiled up to strike
Still looking for what's good about goodbyes
Like staring at the moonlit snow, and saying it's fireflies
Windblown with the sparrows clutching the wire
I'd run off to LA, but it just keeps catching fire
If only time was like a river that runs both ways
A tide that could deliver back those days
You were a storm front making grown men cry, watching young girls sing
But there's a last time for everything
Pressed between these pages in our hands
A crumbling yellow leaf, the way you used to stand
Now we're gathered round like crows circling for home
Bewildered wild creatures not understanding where you've gone
Or why you've gone
The radiator exhales into morning
Scrape the ice off the windshield, smell the frozen wood burning
Pray the blue ghosts of trees will summon back the spring
Try to keep the faith, but there's a last time for everything
If only time was like a river that runs both ways
A tide that could deliver back those days
Another song, another drink, another sunset's glowing ring
But there's a last time for everything
There's a last time for everything
