Tom Rosewater

We were just a shadow of a self

Waiting while we hid between the shelves

The little droughts'll draw into the dry spells

when time is lost

I once was a renegade

I once had a home

I once was a minuteman

as the church bells tolled

I once had a sailboat

that carried a son

I knew how to say your name

before you were gone

So go on, now

feed your soul

deep down below

in the wreck

We were caught in yesterday's howl

she tore you from her parapet tower

and flushed me to the end of my rill

where time was born

I once was a renegade

I once had a home

I once was a minuteman

when the clock struck one

I once had a sailboat

I carried you on

I knew how to say your name

before you were gone

I once was a renegade

we once had a home

we spent all our minutes up

when clock struck one

we took to the ocean

we shouted our names

and stood tall to face the wind

I never saw you again

I never saw you again