Too Soon to Go - Tift Merritt

Sometimes I hear the song that you are singing

Softly out of tune, in broken lines

I see the truth, the rhythm and the meaning

And the best I’ll ever be inside in your eyes

Sometimes you are the dry grass summer orchids

Sometimes a hawk lonely in its flight

I don’t know where you end and I’m beginning

Are you awake tonight and looking at the sky?

It’s too soon to go, it’s too soon to go —

Stay a little longer, there’s so much I need to know

Time is a just our small tracks in the falling snow

It’s just too soon for you to go

Sometimes I hear you speak when you aren’t speaking

Sometimes I feel you hurt, that’s when I cry

Your kindness is the conscience running through me

And your easy laughter spills across these lines

It’s too soon to go, it’s too soon to go —

Stay a little longer, there’s so much I need to know

Time is just our small tracks in the melting snow

It’s just too soon for you to go

Sometimes I am just a child of your mercy

Sometimes a woman softly through the night

Sometimes I just don’t feel I can keep going

Because of you, I raise myself and try

It’s too soon to go, it’s too soon to go —

Stay a little longer, there’s so much you need to know

Time is just our small tracks in the falling snow

And it’s just too soon for you to go