Lyrics: It Was Gone

PHOTO BY J.R HILTON

IT WAS GONE

WRITTEN BY: J.R HILTON

DECEMBER 2016

WENT BACK TO THE OLD PLACE

AND IT WAS GONE

IT WAS MY SANCTUARY

AND MY HOME FOR SO LONG

THE GOOD TIMES WE HAD THERE

TOO MANY TO COUNT 

THERE'S NOTHING LEFT BUT THIS OLD TREE

AND A FEW OLD BRICKS STARING BACK AT ME

THE TIMES HERE, I NEVER REALIZED WHAT I HAD

KIND OF MAKES ME SAD

THE PICTURES, REAL AND IN MY HEAD

ARE NEVER COMING BACK

IT'S LIKE THEIR DEAD

A VICTIM OF TIME

MEASURED IN YEARS

CAUGHT SOMEWHERE BETWEEN

THE MEMORIES AND FEARS

I COULD GET LOST HERE WITHOUT LEAVING

I COULD BE ANYTHING I WANTED

JUST BY BELIEVING

DID I SPEND TOO MUCH TIME DREAMING

EVERYBODY COMING AND GOING

ALWAYS SOMEONE THERE

STILL PLENTY OF ROOM TO BE ALONE

AT ANY GIVEN TIME

PEACE ON EARTH WAS MINE

THIS PLACE WAS AN EMPIRE

THIS PLACE USED TO SHINE

I TURNED AROUND TO SEE WHAT LIFE WAS LIKE

AND WHEN I TURNED BACK, IT WAS GONE

NOW I'M GATHERING UP THE MEMORIES

THAT I LEFT BEHIND

JUST THE ONES THAT I CAN FIND

EVERYBODY SCATTERED ON THE FOUR WINDS

JUST LIKE THIS PLACE THEIR GONE

WALKED AWAY ONE LAST TIME

I'LL NEVER SEE THIS PLACE AGAIN

I ONCE THOUGHT TIME STOOD STILL HERE

BUT IT WAS MOVING ON THE BREEZE

AND IN EACH BURNING SUNSET

FRAMED BETWEEN THE TREES