Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Steven Wilson
Canonical path: /steven-wilson/transience
Related lyric paths: 6
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Transience
Read Transience lyrics by Steven Wilson on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Transience
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Cut through the country
Speed through the dark
A child in a train, tristessa departs
It's only the start
Filigree circles round her young wrist
Her mother is frowning
At something she missed
She fixes her hair
At the failing of the day she
Heard her father always say,
"Remember, it's only the start"
When she drifted off to sleep
She had the whole world at her feet
Because it's only the start
Before they fell away it seemed
To matter all the same
But it was only the start
It's only the start
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Steven Wilson performs "Transience", and this lyric page sits inside the Steven Wilson catalog on LyroVerse.
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