Slow Surprise

Slow Surprise - The Hollywood Symphony Orchestra and Voices

There is a way that subtle changes come to stay

Barely noticed hardly known

One day you'll say my situation's locked away

But by tomorrow you're all alone

It seems so sudden but it's not it's only grown

From a scene that long ago was left

Forgotten in the snow

And has a way with slow surprises all it's own

It's hard to show but like a boulder rollin' slow

Or a rumble deep in the ground

Things whisper low and by the time i really know

What's been movin' they've settled down

Too late to see the way they're shiftin' 'round

Too late to say there's bound to be another way

It's all been said and done without a sound

This comes to me and now that i begin to see

It's not dramatic it's nothing grand

I used to be half of the whole of you and me

Now i'm the limit of all i am

It seems so simple nothin' much to understand

You walked out and closed the door

Said i don't live here anymore

And now nothin's hangin' heavy in my hands

Now nothin's hangin' heavy in my hands

In my hands

In my hands

In my hands

In my hands

Now nothin's hangin' heavy in my hands

Oh

We all been 'round

It's all been so and done without a sound

Oh