Here’s how it starts
I lay in parts
Feeling my way outside of the dark
And I hoped that I might hear a voice
And in that place
I passed the days
A million sticks but never a spark
Let alone any bright little joys
Then it shone, first a light, then a noise
A signal flare in space
Oh I’m here and away
Swept up on the shore of a someday
Found me and then you lay down right where I laid
Close to me, said:
You stay, I stay yeah
Where you stay, I stay yeah
Here’s how it goes
You keep me close
And in your hands I’m making my home
Built upon like a ship run aground
Now you’re where I am
We’re stopping time and
Here in my hands you’re never alone
For as long as the moon goes around
Or a song has a tune and a sound
Two echoes intertwine
Chorus
Here's how it starts
And I hoped that I might hear a voice
Chorus (x2)
Where you stay, I stay yeah
You’ll stay, I’ll stay yeah
Where you stay, I stay yeah
credits
from The Way It Was,
released February 14, 2020
Written by Elliot Caroll & Simeon Abbott
Produced by YSSY
Engineered by Simeon Abbott
Mixed by Simeon Abbott
Mastered by Matthew Lederman