Gaining Ground

When I was eighteen a friend asked me to take his girlfriend with me back to our hometown. He said he would follow in a week or two…He never showed up. She stayed with me for a few months. It didn’t occur to me at the time but I think she was only sixteen and what was really happening was that she was running away from home. It was my first experience living with someone other than my immediate family. I did what I thought I was supposed to do but I also did what I could under the circumstance.  Eventually her father showed up at the bottom of our stairs and without speaking a word took her home. I don’t even remember her name now. I think of myself as a good partner but that isn’t always the consensus of those who I partner with. I have learned a lot from those beginnings. 



Well I heard my ex-wife talking to our neighbor
About her new.. boy …friend
She said I’m so used to taking care of others 
Well he is taken care of me instead

You know I felt a little funny 
Cause i knew she was talking about me
Thats not the way I remember it
No i do not remember it to be that way

When I was 18 
I took in a runaway
She crawled into my bed 
On the 7th day

I played her music and I cooked her food
I did everything that I thought I could

Down stairs to mikes ohhh we would go
Find that water bed and sink right in
Yeah yea, we would begin again
 
For fear of choking on you
For fear of something new
Well it tears me apart and it  pushes me away
I hope
I hope
I hope
I hope
I hope that i will bend 
You know I’ve been mistaken 
I have  been down on my knees
But i never have forsaken
never have forsaken
All those things that were  given to me

I look at my feet in the morning
And I wonder where they are bound
I should be picking flowers
I should be gaining ground

Gaining Ground

Tim McFate