Hevel Hevelim

All that I’ve dreamed these seven years

Is to be far away from here

But all of my baggage weighs me down

And brings about pain I thought was dead

There’s so many people that I love

There’s so many friends that I hold dear

There’s so many reasons here to stay

Yet still to Jerusalem I go

You shine like the summer

But you cry like the spring

Never came

And you go down to pray

But you’re asking for more

Than you’d bargained for

So fragile and pale with the

Weight of your thoughts getting

Older

And you shine like the summer

When there’s no one around

That could hurt you

I wish you’d let me hold you

I’d keep you safe

Through all of our days

The winter seems to’ve lost some of its dread

But the snow don’t fall as pretty like it did

It feels like I will wander till I’m gone

It feels like my old wounds came back to life

I tried to find some rest upon my bed

But there’s too much noise for this old, quiet town

It feels like I will stumble till I’m gone

It feels like my old anger never died

You call me out

Through clouds of smoke

And through it all

I see the cross

Her hair smells like smoke as she sips

Her drink at the bar

A song starts to play that she knew

When she was in love

He broke her young heart though he said

He’d marry her young

She kept his old clothes but he took

A piece of her chest

She gets up to dance as the room

Fades in the sway

She holds fast the cowboy that sweet-

Talks her the most

Distracts from the mirror, her skin

That fades every year

And the curves of her body that want more

Than carnal appeal

And all this time we spent

On wandering

And all this time spent chasin’

Novelty

When we could have settled

Down quietly

To grow old with the wife

We found in youth