A Little Life

I've seen the flame to a spoon

I was twelve years old on the dark side of the moon

Five grown men inside a toilet booth

One man, looking through the eyes of his youth

I've seen the garden of love

From the thorns in the bush to the roses above

It was three years later in the bending of trust

That my flower withdrew from the thickening mud

And so I hopped on a plane

To a faraway land, where my family was made

So long to the friends who had beg me to stay

This was the path I had to take

And then there was love

When she’d rest her head when the days got tough

Twenty-three years old, but I felt enough

We were soon becoming us, oh

And what I'd never seen

As the days got old, and the nights grew weak

She was just enough in the winter heat

There she was in front of me, was in front of me

And then it came, the day we wed

A time of joy and a time of regret

The tears were counting up their debt

To my other side, she’d never met

And we moved forward, but I still know

The guilt and shame, from the night I stole

Forever haunts this child in tow

Will follow me down the long brick road

A life, a smile, a man's best friend

I felt like I'd been saved again

Twenty-eight long years, now on the mend

To a past I thought I'd seen the end

So we set sail on something new

To counter all the darker truths

So I tried to give my best to you

If it’s all I’d ever do, all I’d ever do

At times I think about the child

Who held so close to me, when all went running wild

He’d hide himself away, and refuse to smile

This was a life in denial

And so I found an avenue, oh

Thirty years too long to rid the darkest blues

She stayed on side, to untie any seeming clues

And so it came our greatest gift

He shows me how life truly is

The darkness fell right off the cliff

What kind of garden of love is this?

And here we stand, all well and true

He's on the brightest side of the moon

The circle rolls right into view

And I've come to peace

I've come to peace

With you