Once a Meadow

There's a hill in the meadow

Where a willow tree shook

The grass gold and green

Where we'd run barefoot

There's a field in our hometown

Where sis scraped her knee

There's a house on our old street

Where you once loved me

I can't tell what's changed more

The earth or us

But phantoms haunt the soil

Our love like the moss

It's all fading, fading

Into concrete, into iron

I've left this town long ago

My body's still tired

Now where's the willow?

It's boughs no longer dance

This land's a thorny ghost

Of a field where we pranced

There's a place once a meadow

Once a hill once our love

Now a parking lots bakes

In the warm summer sun