Don Gately - The Past and Everything Else Lyrics

Fixed by a moment
Stranded in the tick tock
I forgot where I put my other sock
Found outside the storefront where my little brother busted his knee
Trying to fly with wheels on his feet
That must have felt like wings

Forever the sensitive one
I've resigned myself to the cancer ward of everyone's brain
Assuming the worst but hoping for the best
I'm constantly stuck at the bypass of your heart's beating freeway
I'm having a sandwich at the outpost of your love
Coffee's in the pot if you want some

I am a railway worker pounding ties through planks and steel
Trying to build a pathway
As the crow flies
Back to the safe house where we met
But to be completely honest I think I burned it down years ago
Before I knew that you would need it again

And I can still remember the sound of her anger as it cut the glass of my heart
And there is nothing more frightening than the rapids of fury flowing towards you

And of course I remember the waterfalls
On our first walk together
Climbing around on the chimneys
From the top we felt so small
But closer to the truth
That we are never lost never alone
Always and forever those little kids playing in sprinklers on the summer lawn
Our parents, still happy, smiling at each of us a hundred thousand miles apart
The sun glinting off there eyes
Like the first and last scene of the most beautiful movie
Played on repeat again and again and again