Josh Ritter - Paths Will Cross lyrics

This is it my dear old friend Our paths it seems are at an end for now Though in time we floated free We're are pulled by separate gravities to ground But it's clear in the way we part With our hearts together but our hands apart And it seems so hard to begin Best friends we'll always be Though your road don't follow me I know our paths will cross again Time has turned her face from me And spin spirals fancy free I flew With nothing but the dawn to see And now I've got my memories of you Well the road is windi' and road is hard And there's no telling just how far Or how many letters I might send One day you'll walk with me Against all probability I know our paths with cross again Time is like this fast freight train You gotta ride, you can't remain behind And all your friends are on separate tracks And some of them and some of them they won't look back to find The one place we all have known The one place we can call a home The place where each of us began Sure as that day rolls around When the road back home is finally found I know our paths will cross again Now my home is in a far off land Where love and time have made their stand against me And that's probably where I'm gonna stay It's probably where they'll marry me some day But after all is come and gone And after every songs been sung there Comes a thought I won't defend Sure stones are left unturned And on the streets where home fires burn I know our paths will cross again