Losing Your Way

For Mark it came out of the light

And everything went down in freefall

What I remember most of all

Is when she said that people die

Don’t they. Cry don’t they

There comes a time when you’re alone with yourself

And the cold light and fear, whatever they might say

And the girl with the flowers in her hair

Said you should have made time for sharing

And there she lies your hoped for future

Boy you better pray she don’t leave you

Figure we have lost our way

Before this dark and broken trail was made

Before the surface cooled to stone

Before the harsh light and the white walls

The first struggle for breath

And winterbourne no longer flow from the hills

The trees are all down, the losers have found

That the girl with the flowers in her hair

Says there’s nothing else left for giving

And there she lies your hoped for future

Boy you better pray she don’t leave you

I understand there will soon be

Man’s first steps on red earth

And I hear they’re defining

The very nature of our being

Is there nothing we can’t do?

It’s come to pass at long last

There is such strength in numbers

And the circle’s turned full circle

And God is now made in our image

How far have we come down

From Dragon Bone Hill

When the best case we can make is we

Threw it all away?