Our roads forked back there
At a turning point for me
I thought of you as a mentor
You taught a blind musician to see
Until I rejected some of your ideas
Eyes closed, hands on the keys
And I did not stay there
When the path splits off, you know
And mine went
from a land of no seasons,
sushi and cigars
Back into the snow
Like other times before
Turned back from a dead end
A feeling you might know
More than one standing
by on the sidelines mentioned
It looked like
we'd become just business
If we had ever been friends
You never kept things
You'd throw it all out and move on
To gamble bigger
Never anchored, weighted down,
in your marathon
I thought that was wise
You say you're unhappy now
Do you think that
sacrifice was wrong
Driven by bad odds
It’s like you need adversity
It's a rush to be so far down
Coming back from impossibilities
And I respect that kind of fight
But if I’ve learned something,
that's not me
Sometimes-sometimes
I still remind myself of this
To shake out these feelings
About how far apart we are
Strong personalities
We orbit around them
like they’re suns
I used to find myself changing
Put down my traits,
pick up someone's
The danger there might be
Attracting all kinds
of false connections
And wasted time
Giving over,
giving up too much control
Passenger side riding
Leaves you wondering ‘where'd I go’
Easy to lay back, oh yeah
Instead of swimming against the flow
Why keep replaying thoughts
that I’ve come to know
When I could throw
some weight away
Take that lesson from you
Let it go