Time Like Snow

from Most of It Is True by Rachel Zylstra

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I’ve left you waiting, wanting for a better me
A more tenacious me who lives courageously
I know I’m lacking, lacking of some holy thing
I’ve got the will for it
But it does its own thing

My days are numbered, time slips by like snow
That melts on my windshield as I drive myself home

You’ve seen me falter, seen me fall perpetually
And still you’re there for me, jogging my memory
I know I’m halting, holding back from loving you
To let that very act drive everything I do

My days are numbered, time slips by like snow
That melts on my windshield as I drive myself home
I start to wonder, holding fast the wheel
When it stops falling, how will I feel?

I ache to sense it, to breathe in change come over me
To feel the scales fall
To blink my eyes and see
I ache to feel it, to know my place and flourish there
To wash your feet
With my hair

Let me listen not to my own foolish wants
They’ve led me nowhere, run me down in fits and starts
Let me open, cut me like a surgeon’s knife
Empty me for your good
Fill me up with your life

My days are numbered, time slips by like snow
That melts on my windshield as I drive myself home
I start to wonder, holding fast the wheel
When it stops falling, how will I feel

My days are numbered, time slips by like snow
That melts on my windshield as I drive myself home
I start to wonder, holding fast the wheel
When it stops slipping, how will it feel
How will it feel
How will it feel

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from Most of It Is True, released October 15, 2005
Written by Rachel Zylstra
Recorded at Dynamite Sound Project, Grand Rapids, MI
Rachel Zylstra: vocals, keys

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