[Verse 1]

Cut through the country, speed through the dark

A child in a train, Tristessa departs

It's only the start (Start, ah)

[Verse 2]

Filigree circles 'round her young wrist

Her mother is frowning, it's something she missed

She fixes her hair (Start, ah)

[Chorus]

At the failing of the day she heard

Her father always say, "Remember, it's only the start

It's only the start."

When she drifted off to sleep

She had the whole world at her feet because

It's only the start, it's only the start

Before they fell away, it seemed to matter all the same

But it was only the start, it's only the start

It's only the start