Headlight Holds a Deer

There ain't no troubled water, no bridge for me to cross

Just space and time, and learning how to cope with what I've lost

Some will come a-running, some won't shed a tear

Some of them stop in their tracks like a headlight holds a deer

It's just a darkness, it's a fog that rolls right in

Leaving me defenseless, but I've learned to live with it

I would like to shine a light and leave it on display

View it now from every angle, so I can walk away

I will tell you everything I know, no issue I won't discuss

At length and depth, been swallowed whole, I've brushed away the dust

I've been lost for decades, I got painful souvenirs

Whatever ghost you fear the most will whisper in your ear

I have come to search the narrative for tiny fragments of the truth

Help me now with the puzzle piece excavated from my youth

It's just a darkness, it's a fog that rolls right in

And I've got no defenses, I just learned to live with it

And it gets harder with every new sunset

Forever relentless, I play the cards, I play the cards I get

There ain't no troubled water, no bridge for me to cross

Just space and time, and learning how to cope with what I've lost

Some will come a-running, some won't shed a tear

Some of them stop in their tracks like a headlight holds a deer

It's just a darkness, it's a fog that rolls right in

Leaving me defenseless, but I've learned to live with it

And it gets harder with every new sunset

Forever relentless, I play the cards, I play the cards I get

It's just a darkness, it's a fog that rolls right in

Leaving me defenseless, but I've learned to live with it

And it gets harder with every new sunset

Forever relentless, I play the cards, I play the cards I get

I would like to shine a light, leave it on display

There ain't no troubled water, no bridge for me to cross

Just space and time, and learning how to cope with what we've lost