Like the light that's resting on the leaves

Like the scent that’s carried on the breeze

Like footsteps in the falling snow

Turn around, it's already gone

There's something kept here that I want to give

Something hidden, I don’t want to hide

When it rises in me like a tide, I know

I've had it so long, I don't want it no more

Under the darkest of winter skies

The trees stood naked and severe

I worked that land through till the spring and then

By harvest time I was already gone

Maybe her love would have carried me till the end

Maybe she meant every word that she said

Maybe she wasn't just passing time, oh no

I don't know, I was already gone

There's something kept here that I want to give

Something hidden, I don't want to hide

When it rises in me like a tide, oh no

And I may once have stayed, but I've already gone

You want that boy who’s playing in the sand

The one with a smile for everyone

But even though that boy was just begun

Even then, he was already gone

For like the light that’s resting on the leaves

The scent that's carried on the breeze

Like her love and the first fall of snow

Turn around and it’s already gone