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lyrics

Do you ever find it strange waiting on a light to change?
It starts blinking, and you get to thinking
You used to get some feeling that you lost along your way

So you walk the streets of New York City evening into night admitting
Truths that you've discovered to your sisters and brothers
To the beggars and the bottles, to the traffic lights and rain

You go out looking for that something that you lost along your way
And you don't remember where or when, will you ever find it again?
But you hear a voice calling, calling out your name
Down the block on Stanton Street, the lights are changing red to green
Ain't nothing in this world I've seen that don't fade away

I found my old companion in a bar that we once drank in
Singing songs that I had written that had all but lost their meaning
And we talked about the women, and we talked about the old times
And we saw that things were different, and we tried to put it in rhymes
But the art had fled far from us, much too far to find

And I'm looking in that mirror now, and I'm seeing for the first time how
My face is long and hungry, how her beauty stunned me
Tell me will she find somebody, somebody treats her kind

So here's one for every feeling that we lost along our way
Once we called each other friend, do you call it coincidence
When there comes a voice calling, calling out your name
Standing there on Stanton Street, the lights are changing red to green
Ain't nothing in this world I've seen that don't fade away, don't it fade away

I walk the streets of this foreign city, I spend my time committing
Words unspoken, beneath a storm unbroken
And I felt the sky weeping as I watched those words I once believed
So set in stone bleeding, seep into the evening
Just longing for their freedom, left me standing on the corner thinking
How did I, how did we get from there to here, and wondering

Where it went that feeling that I lost along the way
I feint believe that now and then I can hear a voice upon the wind
That's calling, calling, calling out my name
So I turn my head, I scan the scene
Down the block on Stanton Street, the lights are changing red to green
Ain't nothing in this world I've seen don't fade away
Waiting on a light to change, waiting on a light to change

credits

from The Return of the Lonesome Coyote Patchwork Pulpit, and Sundry Other Tales from the Rainbow's End, released November 27, 2010
written by Benton Roark

Benton Roark: acoustic guitar and vocals
Peden Young: electric guitar
Sarah Wolfman-Robichaud: shaker and backup vocals
Adam Jones: upright bass
Brian Nesselroad: drums and percussion
Martin Reisle: pedal steel guitar

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