Beginning

We watched her as she faded away

Back down through thirty thousand days

Like a river flowing backwards or upstream

To the source of everything

How we all clutch onto that thread

We brought with us to find our way through

The darkness ahead

Until everything just reminds us

Of things left far behind us

We hold on to the beginning

Hold on to the beginning

The cities had been all in flame

That summer when the rage came

We were heading home from some great gathering

The boys on the top of the bus

They gave us their badges, their names, they gave us their trust

All the tokens of faith

You found them where you’d put them away

For a moment like today

To hold on to the beginning

Hold on to the beginning

I climbed and climbed to reach the view

Of the hills behind stretching away

In line on line of faded blue

Back to what we first believed in

How we all clutch onto that thread

We brought with us to find our way back

To hold on to the beginning

Hold on to the beginning