Slow Surprise - Emmylou Harris

There is a way that subtle changes to stay

Barely noticed, hardly known

One day you´ll say my situation´s locked away

But by tomorrow you´re all alone

It seems so sudden, but it´s not, it´s only grown

From a scene that long ago was left

Forgotten in the snow

And has a way with slow surprises all its own

It´s hard to show, but like a boulder rollin´ slow

Or a rumble, deep in the ground

Things whisper low, and by the time I really know

What´s been movin´, they´ve settled down

Too late to see the way they´re shiftin´ round

Too late to say there´s bound to be another way

It´s all been said and done without a sound

This comes to me, and now that I begin to see

It´s not dramatic, it´s nothing grand

I used to be half of thje whole of you and me

Now I´m the limit of all I am

It seems so simple, nothin´ much to understand

You walked out and closed the door

Said I don´t live here anymore

And now nothin´s hangin´ heavy in my hands

Now nothin´s hangin´ heavy in my hands