Troubled Times - Dar Williams

When you think you’ve found

Something worth holding onto

Were you reaching for attention

Hoping she would notice you?

Collecting bottles and

Thrown-away cans

Like she was returnable

One day would fill your hands

How she loved you

All you imagined

Fit so well into your plans

Maybe one day soon

It will all come out

How you dream about

Each other sometimes

With the memory of

How you once gave up

But you made it through

The troubled times

Pining away

Every hour in your room

Rolling with the motion

Waiting 'til it’s opportune

Sitting there

Watching time fly past you

Why do tomorrow

What you could never do?

How she loved you

All you imagined

All the shit you put her through

Maybe one day soon

It will all come out

How you dream about

Each other sometimes

With the memory of

How you once gave up

But you made it through

The troubled times

And it takes a lot of nerve

To ask how she is doing

Start with a weak foundation

You will end in ruins

The way the days and hours pass

You’ll never understand

Falling like rain through your hands

Maybe one day soon

It will all come out

How you dream about

Each other sometimes

With the memory of

How you once gave up

But you made it through

The troubled times

Maybe one day soon

It will all come out

How you dream about

Each other sometimes

With the memory of

How you once gave up

But you made it through

The troubled times