JUST LONG ENOUGH

JUST LONG ENOUGH

WRITTEN BY JEFFREY R HILTON

2018 

WE USED TO SIT AROUND AND LAUGH

WE USED TO GET UP AND GO

SUMMER USED TO LAST

WELL INTO THE FALL

ALWAYS AND ADVENTURE

IT ALWAYS WENT SLOW

TIMES WERE WHEN

THE VERY ESSENCE OF LIVING

WAS ALWAYS SO SWEET

THE WATER WAS MORE CLEARER 

THE SKY MORE BLUE

THE AIR WAS CLEANER

I REALLY MISS THOSE DAYS

DON'T YOU

WE USED TO STAY UP LATE

TO GAZE AT THE STARS

DOWN BY THE RIVER

MIST IN THE FIELDS

NEVER A HURRY

BARELY A CONCERN

UNTIL ONE DAY IT QUIETLY SLIPPED AWAY

TOOK A TURN

THEN SUDDENLY NO TIME TO DREAM

 YOU'RE FALLING THROUGH THE AIR UNSEEN

LAND SOMEWHERE YOU CAN'T GET OUT

INTO SCATTERED SEEDS OF DOUBT

LEAVE YOU INSIDE LOOKING OUT

WE USED TO UNDERSTAND

WE USED TO PLAY ALONG

 TIME STOOD STILL

FOR A LITTLE WHILE

JUST LONG ENOUGH TO GIVE US HOPE

CURIOSITY TAKES US ALL OFF

ONE AT A TIME

THEN ITS WANDERLUST

IN GOODBYES WE PUT OUR TRUST

WE USED TO THINK THINGS WERE HARD

WE DIDN'T KNOW HOW FREE WE REALLY WERE 

NOW ITS ALL GONE, ITS JUST A BLUR

FROZEN IN TIME, JUST MELT AND STIR

CLOSE YOUR EYES LET YOURSELF GO

SEE WHAT YOUR MIND CONJURES UP

I THINK I KNOW

WE USED TO WALK FOR MILES

THROUGH THE FIELDS AND THE WOODS

WE TALKED UNTIL WE COULDN'T

THINK OF ANYTHING ELSE

WE LAID DOWN IN THE GRASS

WE SWORE OUT OUR SECRETS

TO NEVER REVEAL

HIDDEN LEFT BEHIND CONCEALED 

WE USED TO CARE

WE USED TO FEEL SO STRONG

THERE WAS NEVER A QUESTION

WE'D JUST GET UP AND GO

BACK WHEN TIME STOOD STILL

I RECALL

SUMMERS THAT LASTED

WELL INTO THE FALL

WE USED TO LOVE

THAT'S ALL