Fall & Cover

The time is just passed four o'clock

and it's starting to get dark

Could it be time to break out a heavier coat

and wrap a scarf around my throat?

The laces drag aside my feet

The next few steps are all I really need to see

If I lift my eyes, the chill whips against my face

I let the landing of the leaves disturb my pace

And they fall and cover,

they fall and cover,

they fall and cover the ground

The neighbors children on the lawn

Are bundled up so they stay warm

They place hand in hand spinning and singing

"ashes, ashes, we all fall down"

Inside the war's on the TV

I watch the images of instability

Have four years gone by?

Time seems to fly as they stand straight and tall with their heads held up high

And they fall and cover,

they fall and cover,

they fall and cover the ground

Wake from your slumber although it's been sweet

Meet me at the river, we'll push passed the banks

Feel our feet breach the current but it doesn't save

But the dirt that collects on our souls will remain even after the sand on our toes

falls away

Behind the blinds the dancing snow

Then tap a pebble shocks the window

Down in the frost in wet winter clothes stands a boy

Who thinks he's all grown up

And it just might take all of my strength and all that I've learned

Just to say I will not go, no I will not go.

I won't go when the tears come

And they fall and cover,

they fall and cover,

they fall and cover the ground