Author: Hannah Stokes

When we met we weren’t ready for what would unfold
Telling you things I’ve thought that I don’t think I’ve ever told
You kissed my lips under the streetlights and grabbed my hand to hold
Tellin’ me “baby since you’re with me i won’t be alone”

But time makes short work of love
Got me contemplating how it was
Got me wondering…

How could this love be so lonely
How could this love be so lonely
Baby but you say that you need me
So how come I’m feeling so lonely

When you call me you take up the time just talking about yourself
When we’re alone you say you want me through the liquor on your breath

How am I supposed to feel
When it doesn’t seem like you know me for real

How could this love be so lonely
How could this love be so lonely
Baby but you say that you need me
So How come I’m feeling so lonely

I don’t know what to do
I can’t keep on expecting things from you
I don’t know what to say
Besides we are not ok

How could this love be so lonely
How could this love be so lonely
Ya know you only call when you need me
And it’s leaving me lonely

Hold me by the sea
Tangled in the spirit of the Japanese
The specific use of pacific blues
Mixed with red and golden hues

I always knew I’d find you here
I never knew how long it’d take
But here we are together now
Bound by nothin’ but fate

Been dodgin’ bullets all my life
Still I couldn’t keep a wife
Let me tell you how I loved her, darling,
Let me tell you how I tried

But the times will change and so will we
Grace of God please cover me
Mountains, ocean, land and sea

I only knew her about 6 weeks
Before I asked her to marry me
Then I watched her walk right out that door
But I’m not angry anymore
The past is in the past my love
I’m only lookin fo’ward

Take it slow around these turns
We don’t need your brakes to burn
Don’t be stupid, you can wait
Take the time you need to take
You’ve got so long

Been dodging bullets all my life
Couldn’t keep a goddamned wife
Let me tell you how I loved her, darling,
Let me tell you how I tried

But the times will change and so will we
Grace of God please cover me
The men I’ve killed can’t forgive me

My friends, my friends where have they gone
Off into the great beyond
Without me

Follow the ocean, follow the sea
Follow the ocean, and come to me
Follow the ocean, follow the sea
Follow the ocean, don’t keep your love from me
Follow the ocean, follow the sea
Follow the ocean, and come to me

Mother, mother, it’s been a while,
But I’m coming home
Mother, mother, when I come home
I’m coming alone

And I’m aware that when you saw me last
You saw me clinging dearly to my past
But no more

Earth and seed, they marry
In the spring I watch them grow
But my heart drowns with the rain fall
When it breaks, it breaks slow

And I’m aware that these things take time
But I can’t get that man off my goddamned mind, oh!
I have been so lost and yet I wander still
With grace as my crutch, with song my lungs are filled, oh!

If circles and circles I run,
I will still be running home to you
And if miles and miles I come,
Take one look back and just see who I was
Egypt has held me long,
But Zion has held me longer
If you don’t think I will come
Just take one look back and see who I was

The way things are, the way things were
They don’t agree and that’s where it hurts
Long lost songs from voices with empty lungs
Melodies so sweet, never to be sung

Youth stained love will fall away
The things we share no longer permeate
The old dreams that we held at night
That never seem to take flight

But Here and now
Is all life has to give
Dwelling on the past
Wont teach me how to live
I’ll never learn how to live

I praise the sky as I curse my own breath
A sojourner gasping for rest
But in the end
what will I hang on to

Here and now
Is all I’ll ever be
I’m breathing

But these fears of mine
Take a hold of me
They won’t let go

But here and now
Is all life has to give
Dwelling on the past
Won’t teach me how to live

Will I ever learn how to live

Time is moving faster everyday
And scientifically it will stay that way
But I will make the most that I can
Out of these moments here you’re holding my hand

Time is never on my side
My memories slip out of my mind
But I never have to wonder my life’s worth
Cause you prove that I became something after birth

When I look back at my life I can say
That every moment with you out of every day
Meant more than dust and empty breaths just seeping out of my chest
Our treasures here will never fade away

There is an anxiety consuming the dreams placed inside of me
I’ve never truly learned how to turn away
But the beauty here surrounding me awakens a security
That those deep brown eyes will cherish all my days

When I look back at my life I can say
That every moment with you out of every day
Meant more than dust and empty breaths just seeping out of my chest
Our treasures here will never fade away

Golden streams of little things you know they mean so much to me
Lady Time will never make us pay
For all the tears and silly fears you’ve wiped them all away my dear
From now until the years that we turn grey

After all this time you still look at me this way
Now I wonder why I wondered if you’d stay