Mission

If you think about the time that you lost your mind There was a reader there and she told you all the things She showed you all that life would hand you Oh baby, there was time And sleepin', dreamin' you were drowning in a tiny fountain Up up so we'll go on like there is a new tone Like we'll never grow old older than Our mothers if she had discovered she couldn't walk on water She couldn't love another She couldn't love another And slowly, wonderin' if only your naked eyes had told me Whether we had Missed it or if it was our mission to pay such close attention I tried so hard to listen We missed it or if it was our mission to pay such close attention I tried so hard to listen And swearing that I took advantage of mine Our fathers learned to cry He knew, he knew, he knew