Time To Know

And the moon went still

In your eyes

And they're like a lake

Just under the night

And the starships rolled

And the ripples flowed

And we slowly swayed

In the rowboat

Tried to guide it

Our little private resistance

To fold.

And the struggle came

And it took no aim

And it pried and tore

And it marched with a cane

Way off the map

In some laundry mat

We both could feel it

And it broke our back

Now the seasons have trouble passing

Through the creases in my heart.

And it's time to know

That it's time to go

It's time to know

That it's time to go.

Now the magazines

In the grocery isle

Flash bedroom paint

And kitchen tile

And the things it left

When you had to let it go

I could live for better

At least I thought so.

So up your cheekbones

The veracity

That we weren't ready to show

And it was time to know

That it was time to go

And it was time to know

That it was time to go.

Every sailboat thrown

Every failed poem

Every morning dream

Every evening steam

Every sidewalk sale

Every finishing nail

Every dress that's worn

Every baby born.