The Long Road

You've walked a 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 shell

You seen some good days and some bad ones, too

You weave through fashion and trend

You seen the sunrise on an ocean blue

You 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

Now you don't want to talk about it

You travelled down through foreign lands

Touched mountain tops and golden sand, seen pyramids

And temples made of stone

Keep seashells in a cashmere scarf

A treasure book of photographs

In 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 Year's Eve 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

Now they don't ever talk about you

And you're older than you used to be

The mirror weaves a tapestry

Of lines that dance and shimmer 'round your eyes

You stare back at a man forever holding out his hand

As if the answer's gonna fall out of the sky

But the penny never dropped

No man has ever stopped time from

Flying by