This Is Where

The wind howls 'cross the ice floes

Send the frozen snow skimming

A river on a river hardened over

It doesn't know the way it's going

Is it north or south or westward

It just glides across the shoreline 'til it's over

You came for me in fast forward

On a claim for something ordered

A way through and past the history that held you

I'd tell my own story through you

Tell it loud to never lose you

A moth caught be the flame it could cannot measure

And there we go again, wishing something bolder

Trying to push and pull inside this moment

Trying to mold this life within our hands

This is where the whole world keeps on turning

This is where we come undone...undone

Will they measure me by branches

Count the rings and take my ashes

Mark the ground where I fell and carry on

Or will we bite against the silence

Fill our days with noise and violence

Not recognize our hearts when we are done

There we'll go again wishing something bolder

Trying to push and pull inside this moment

Trying to mold this life within our hands

This is where the whole world keeps on turning

This is where we come undone

We don't know where it's going

Is it north or south or westward

It just glides across the shoreline 'til it's over