Lyrics

He stopped counting at 921 days
Couldn't quite make it to a grand
It's like that waking nightmare that you told him 'bout
Where you're blindsided by a stranger in a van
He always said you were so different
Turns out you're just the same
He says you're better off, but this still haunts you
The long nights of not hearing your name.

Time takes time
Time takes time
Even when the world feels like it's turning on a dime
Time takes time

Have you heard the one says no man is an island?
You might've helped to fix this if you'd known
How could you hear him over all that silence
He went and made the choice on his own
You lost count of all the ways you know to love him
Now you're counting on the counting of the days
You hope they'll hurry up already, you are waiting
For time to tell the mystery of his ways

Time takes time
Time takes time
Even when the world feels like it's turning on a dime
Time takes time

229 miles to the border
In your car that's less than one full tank of gas
At 80 mph you could really get some space
You've never wanted to get anywhere so fast
But you're not the one doing the leaving
You're as rooted as that oak tree on your lawn
Just west of your heart there's this busted compass
Apparently it's righteously wrong

Time takes time
Time takes time
Even when the world feels like it's turning on a dime
Time takes time