Before Your Heart Is Greater

I learned to run before I knew the road

They clapped so loud I thought that sound was home

At twenty one I had a suit and a headline

My friends were broke and laughing past midnight

I kept two phones and called that being chosen

A gold star kid with both his hands still frozen

Every win arrived before I had a language I wore achievement like

a clean white bandage They said you're set,

you made it, don't look over

So I kept moving like a bright poster

Now I'm older and the rooms feel small

Success was a ladder against one wall When the crowd went home

I could hear it plain What you skip in youth comes back

again If you bloom too soon,

where do you go later

When your name gets there before your heart is greater

I had the keys young,

I had no map Now I trace my life through the

missing gaps If you bloom too soon,

you keep chasing weather Trying to make the early shine last forever

(ohh) (ahh) (oh oh) At thirty eight I finally missed a season

No grand collapse, just quiet without reason I met a man who

started late and slept well He built a life too slow to

ever sell

I envied how his failures made him tender

How empty time could teach a shape to winter

I saw my younger face in every window All finish line and

nowhere left to bend though Maybe growing up is learning how to

land Not every early door will make a man Maybe peace is

not the prize you win

Maybe it begins when you begin again

If you bloom too soon,

where do you go later When your

name

gets there before your heart is greater I had the

keys young, I had no map Now I trace my life through

the missing gaps If you bloom too soon,

let the years restore you There is more to be than what

the first win told you I'm not too late,

I'm only getting honest The boy who won is still becoming on

this (ohh) I can grow past what began me