You Were Gone - Crooked Still

There’s a hill I cannot get to

No matter how I try

Would you tell me the fastest way to you

And I’ll fly

On that hill you built a castle

Made of leaves and sticks and stones

You had no dreams of grandeur

Just a place to call your own

There you stood and saw the glory

On the land o’er which you reigned

There you stood and the glory and the pain, oh the pain

There you stood and saw the glory and the pain

There’s a hill across the ocean

Down a road that’s lined with green

It was there I first saw you

When I was eighteen

When you spoke I couldn’t hear you

I held the can up to my ear

All your words had gotten lost among

The tattered twine and tears

All of those days that we went swimming

I never could swim upstream like you

All of those nights that went diving

I never could dive as deep as you

How did I know that I was weary

I fell asleep right next you

All of that time my heart was heavy

I tried to climb your mountain

I pushed the rock uphill

Oh, I tried to climb your mountain

But I slipped against my will

So I found myself a backway

Saddled up my roan

Oh, I found myself a backway and

I made it to your home

But you were gone before I got there

Gone back from where you came

You were gone before I called your pretty name, pretty name

You were gone before I called your pretty name

Before you saw the glory and the pain