Cleaning off the dust

Drinking from the fountain

Toiling in the blood

Every dawn's a mountain

And I'm climbing them without you

All roads ahead

And I still hope to find you

If ever they get me home.

Where we used to walk

The pavement turned to meadow

My eyes still wanna fall

On you, shining in the soft glow

Now I'm crashing into concrete

Reaching up high

I'm trying to remember

The color of the sky back home.

I'm holding on, I'm holding up

I'm holding on, I'm holding up.

Steam flows from the cup

She's making sure I'm warmer

And though I'm warming up

I can't shake the shiver

I can spend the night beside her

Tracing your heat

Makes me coffee in the morning

But she doesn't feel like home.

There's so much to see

So much to see

So much ahead of me.

Cleaning off the dust

Breaking every mirror

All I've known to love

Isn't getting nearer

And I'm older than my mother

When she gave me the day

And I might be going nowhere

But I can't lift the veil alone.