Lifetimes Apart

Somewhere in East Oklahoma

Painted in Arkansas grey

She’s looking down highway forty

And Lord, it’s a long empty way

Dust settling down all around her

The Sun bleeding red as a rose

She wants to have faith in tomorrow

But hope is as far as she’ll go

He’s drinking his first cup of coffee

Thinking maybe he’ll give her a call

But he wonders how long they can lean on

The past before somebody falls

There’s a dog barking out in the distance

On a chain that you don’t need to see

You can tell by the sound that it’s tied to the ground

In a place where it’s not meant to be

Chorus:

Hear the wind blow, feel the World spin

See the past leaving and coming right back again

Dance in the light, hold on through the dark

We’re all in the same place, lifetime’s apart

Shawnee is no place for a dreamer

But hitching’s not safe anymore

So she stands by her bedroom window

And hears Time pounding on the front door.

He imagines the rain on the ocean

Like Life desperately looking for cracks

They both know if they ever escape they will never

Have courage enough to come back

(Chorus)

There’s a bend on the Sallisaw River

Where the corn flowers paint the world blue

Like a hole leading to somewhere better

Some day they’ll hold hands and jump through