Pedal Break

As the rain falls down in sheets
Crack a window, smell the breeze
I drink it all in
Main street still as stone
Run down and overgrown
Bike down the median

Every little thing that passes by
Becomes a part of me
And I find I hold it dearer now
Just as it fades to black
Found my north star in a midwest town

Now I cycle through the fields
Single speed with pedal brakes
Downhill I'm coasting
The weekend rituals
8 o'clock in Sunday school
They were my family

Every little thing that passes by
Becomes a part of me
And I find I hold it dearer now
Just as it fades to black
Found my north star in a midwest town

Endless summer, mother fell asleep
Reading in the yard, reading in the sun
Out on the bleachers in the autumn
Warm my fingers for the halftime show

All I have left, relics and fragments
Knit together, fear it slipping now
Can't go back there, what I know now
I'm unlearning
To see the flesh and blood so clearly
See them all now much more clearly

And every little thing that passes by
Becomes a part of me
And I find I hold it dearer now
Just as it fades to black
Oh dearer now just as it fades to black
Oh dearer now just as it fades to black
Found my north star in a midwest town