This song is probably the most childhood-focused of the bunch. It’s mostly made up of direct references to images from my adolescence. The opening verse refers to a memory of that strange, longing feeling in the backseat of the car as we’re being driven home, my little brother Isaac is asleep next t...
[Verse 1]
Come along and wake up on the way
Orange shapes arrange and change again
Quiet Isaac in a mild dream
Past the eucalyptus wall
[Chorus]
When I was small
Saria's ageless song
Played along
A pattern and a path to follow
[Verse 2]
Gather in among the wiry trees
Turning people turn the wheel away
Then we heard their voices slowly fade
Softly as the snow would fall
[Chorus]
Covering all
Meadow to the cedar hall
Then go on
Warming in impending autumn
[Post-Chorus]
Into gloom
Arbors and gates and the garden poles
New songs from beyond the wall
Healing and farthеr on
Near but never hеre
[Breakdown]
[Chorus]
Above
Shadows on the window wall
In a fog
Take away a six from seven