Oh how I saw you in the world
Young and free
As the young should be

And we--we saw everything through glass
Sapphire blue
Coloring our view

And every cloud with silver rimmed
Even aligned up in time
And it seems you weren’t real
You disappeared over the years

Oh, I don’t know even when I see you again,
Oh I try, yes I try
To remember you as the kid I knew
But you seem, yes you seem
Oh, like some stranger I met in a dream
And I don’t want to know
What that must mean about what you think of me

And how we’d drive out to the cliffs
To redwood trees
And feel the ocean breeze

Where you through confetti over the edge
Just to see bright colors over the sea
And then you’d have me sit and drink
And watch the light and laugh with you all night
And you, you were so filled with ideas
Never wrong
But I’ve been gone too long

Oh, I don’t know
Even when I see you again
Oh I try, yes I try
To remember you as the kid I knew
But you seem, yes you seem
Like some stranger I met in a dream
And I don’t know what that must mean

Brother, oh, what have we--what have we become?

Oh I don’t know
Even when I see you again
Oh I try, yes I try
To remember you as the kid I knew
But we seem, yes we seem, like two strangers who met in a dream
And I don’t want to know what that must mean
No I don’t want to know what that must mean
About what we’ve come to be


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    Someone please help me, I'm so confused. How is this song related to Wolf People? Is it a cover? Does it have the same name? If so, where is it? I just really want to buy this song, but I can't find anywhere to do that

    maniacmaniac19on October 26, 2019   Link

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