The Far Country - Let You Go lyrics

I watched you pull the thread that hung below

The hem of everything you'd grown to know

You pulled it with a sigh

Said everything must die

I watched you pull the thread and let it go

Our youth was spent desperate to see

The things that lay just barely underneath

The layers of our minds

That fall away in time

So we filled our little brains and tried to see

I couldn't tell you where we were trying to go

So I held your hand and figured that we'd know

When we'd arrived

At our chosen time

I'd kiss your mouth, and I'd let you go

Your voice was sweet and it didn't betray

The words you used when you said you couldn't stay

You said life was just a game

That could never stay the same

So I lit a smoke and watched you drive away

I couldn't tell you where we were trying to go

So I held your hand and figured that we'd know

When we'd arrived

At our chosen time

I'd kiss your mouth, and I'd let you go

And I held you in the back of my mind

As my body felt the wrath of father time

But as I slowly decay

You'll never age a day

Cause I held you in the back of my mind