It's Time

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[Verse1]
Keys on the table
Wallet on the floor
Door still open
But I can’t find before
Your memory still plagues me
Like it did before
All of the small things now
Louder than the screaming in my head

[Chorus]
Lost again
No way back
Standing in a burned-out map
Every road just fades to black
Lost again
No way back
Calling out your name like that
But the echo never answers back
Lost again
No way back

[Verse 2]
Phone full of numbers
None of them you
Scroll through the photos
Skip the ones I can’t live through
Friends say “you’ll be fine”
Over lukewarm beer
I’m laughing at the right times
But I’m not really here

[Bridge]
Maybe I was wrong
Maybe I was right
Doesn’t change the fact
You’re gone tonight
I trace our street
In the fogged up glass
 I keep arriving
Where I lost you last

[Guitar Solo]

[Verse 3]

Keys on the table

Wallet on the floor

Door still open

But I can’t find before

Your memory still plagues me

Like it did before

All of the small things now

Louder than the screaming in my head



Lost again

No way back

Standing in a burned-out map

Every road just fades to black

Lost again

No way back

Calling out your name like that

But the echo never answers back

 

[Verse 4]

Phone full of numbers

None of them you

Scroll through the photos

Skip the ones I can’t live through

Friends say “you’ll be fine”

Over lukewarm beer

I’m laughing at the right times

But I’m not really here

 

[Bridge]

Maybe I was wrong

Maybe I was right

Doesn’t change the fact

You’re gone tonight

I trace our street

In the fogged-up glass
 I keep arriving

Where I lost you last

 

[Chorus]

Missed my stop on a line I know

Phone at ten and my patience low

Same old fight in the messages

Acting like it’s a separate list

 

Took that turn I said I wouldn’t

Said I’d leave

But I just couldn’t

Street signs blur into one long track

Every step feels like a step off map

 

[Chorus]

I’m lost again with no way back

Spinning circles on a one-way track

Tried to follow every fading mark

But all I’ve got are echoes in the dark

I’m lost again with no way back

 

[Verse 5]

Friends all say that I’ll find out

What it means

What this pain’s about

But their words sound thin

Paper-thin

When the doubt keeps crawling under skin

 

Keys on the table

Shoes by the door

I pace the groove in the bedroom floor

Talk out loud like somebody’s there

Just my breath and an empty chair

 

[Chorus]

 

[Bridge]

What if this is where I’m meant to be?

 Stuck between the versions of me

If I can’t retrace the path I chose

Maybe I learn to live with what I don’t know

 

[Chorus]

No Way Back.

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Shawn Colvin’s songs are slow-release works of craft & catharsis that become treasured, lifetime companions for their listeners. She is a three-time Grammy winning singer, songwriter, & musician who crafted the smash hit "Sunny Came Home".

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