Pine Trees

I often have this feeling

Like I was just too late

Waking up too slowly

Letting you slip away

Sunrise turns to sunset

There’s not much in between

There was a time when I believed there lied a whole infinity

I could have run all the way

Through rising day and darkening night

And still I wouldn’t have made it there in time

To stop you and change your mind

I sometimes get a feeling

Like you’re right next to me

But when I turn my head There’s nothing

But an empty passenger’s seat

I have to pull over to calm my racing heart

I won’t play your records anymore the silence that follows is too hard

I could have run all the way

Through rising day and darkening night

And still I wouldn’t have made it there in time

To stop you and change your mind

Now there’s no reason to run no more

So I just sit here by the window

Ivy grows through my front porch

Pine trees reaching higher every year

I don’t mind the years

I can pick the apples when they fall

But I will never stop seeing your shadow walking by the door

I could have run all the way

Through rising day and darkening night

And still I wouldn’t have made it there in time

To stop you and change your mind