It's Only a Matter of Time

Thank you for this wandering

You've taken me again

I tried to stay at home and settle in

Laying down the easy lies

I lived up to the compromise

But now I find a promise in the wind

Thanks to the rising tide

On the ocean's weathered shore

I knew that I'd come rolling home once more

I knew that I'd come back to this

Remembering my innocence

Now I can almost hear it

The voice of the spirit

Saying it's only a matter of time

Life is ever-changing

And in some strange way it stays the same

So many things I do not understand

Taller than the tallest tree

And deeper than the see

I am as small as the finest grain of sand

Thanks to the rising star

That has set my heart to roam

No matter where you are you call me home

The knowledge of my birth and death

Closer now with every breath

Until the moment finds me

This changing reminds me

It's only a matter of time

Blissfully, I'm unaware

Of just how small a share in all of this

Is my little part to play

Lifted as a child up

To my father's knee

I prosper free and wild

A little wiser every day

Thanks to the turning tide

That has brought me to the sea

I no longer deny its hold on me

And I don' t need to go the distance

Cuaght up in my own resistance

Bound up in my sorrow

There's always tomorrow

It's only a matter of time

The knowledge of my birth and death

Closer now with every breath

Until the moment finds me

This changing reminds me

It's only a matter of time

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