All of our lives, we are pulled between Who we become and who we have been And we wear our habits As long as believers
♪ And, oh, in your picture a willowness And you as a god in your knowingness And we are alive In as much as we're dying ♪ And, oh, never once will I own That light, that glow All that you give when you're here And you'll take when you go ♪ I was a line in a song you loved But now I have feared that you heard it wrong For long drives through turning leaves You've stopped singing ♪ And, oh, never once will I own That light, that glow All that you give when you're here But you'll take when you go And how many ways Must a mind be changed and forged And found and made? And on the roof A wooden owl I fear the most Having silenced us in all the fear And, oh, never once will I own That light, that glow And all that you give when you're here But you'll take when you go And, oh, never once will I own That light, that glow All that you give when you're here But you'll take when you go