Floorboards hold a million secrets
A hundred years of back and forth
People pacing through their lives
Never looking down, or breaking course
And I'll never know
And I'll never know
The kind of thing I take for granted
Steadfast under any weight
Catching falls and wearing patterns
Stories etched upon their faces
That I'll never know
That I'll never know
Holding parents holding babies
Watching families come and go
Fading under summer sunlight
Memories drift away like ghosts
That I'll never know
That I'll never know
And in a past life, watching over
Ever growing, evergreen
Until the axes laid them over
Now to watch from underneath
And I'll never know
And I'll never know