People Come and Go Lyrics
Crosses and pictures mend my sloppy mind
Came out of the sunlight back to sinking time
Turn around I see the light I used to know
Chorus:
People come and go
People come and go
People come and go
You know they come, and then they go
Knowledge is the season for knowing when and why
Balances and reasons keep me from the fire
And every time I'm placed within a perfect row
Repeat Chorus
Fire can be friendly, raising perfect pain
Burning off tomorrow and yesterday the same
To always be so weak and never want to know
Chorus:
You know we come and go
You know we come and go
You know we come and go
You know we come, and then we go...
Story behind the song:
That's one of my favorite lyric songs. I think it closes the album nicely, because it's kind of a hymn. Three verses, a short story on each. The words are very simple. But the first verse is about this fall away from grace. The middle verse is about being bound within the bounds. And then the third verse is falling back into grace. It's about realizing the process of light-into-darkness, light-into-darkness. If you could take a step back and use your third eye, seeing the whole thing, you're sort of there, in your spiritual journey. Because you're aware. And of course then you have to kill that third eye, only to gain it back. I think what I like about the song is that it deals with a paradox; it deals with accepting the paradox of life.
