Long Before

Long Before - The Roches

Oh, I think you're lost to me

Just a stranger I will never see

I drove away and I walked out that door

But you had left us long before

The year we spent there was strange and slow

Like all the cars in that rare southern snow

We ventured out without a plan or fear

Probably not a great idea

It's not about the things I wanted then

I've come to see now that I couldn't have used them

All the same it's true that even now

I'd like to talk to you somehow

I'd want to find out if you've heard that song

I'd want to tell you mine are coming along

Your family's well and healthy I suppose

I'm really curious to know

In the dimness of those last days gloom

While I was packing up the spare bedroom

You came and offered me a solemn word

About a voice you'd often heard

It was a moment when I saw inside

A little break from all that stoic pride

Do I think now that this would ring a bell

You know I couldn't even tell you

Oh, my friend, you're lost to me

Another a stranger I will never see

Oh, my friend, you're lost to me

Another a stranger I will never see