Mary Chapin Carpenter - Hand On My Back lyrics

I move through the world like an arrow that flies Slicing the air as Im mapping the skies And way deep down the echoes remain Memories sounding like rattling chains But lately I think I am coming around Im liking the feel of my feet on the ground And last night I stopped dead in these tracks Recalling your hand on the small of my back The slightest brush but as powerful too As an electrical storm thats moving on through Then is gone as fast as it came, leaving nothing, Not even the rain When I was younger how I took my time Folly and wisdom form points on a line From one to another with space in between For the lessons you learn & the dreams that you dream But tell me what happens when dreams dont come true How you overcome some things until they overtake you Why you never got chosen, why you never felt claimed By some pa**ion or person that is never explained I come on quiet but Im fierce as a lion Life will take us apart but we never stop trying To proceed as if whole and intact Like I felt with your hand on my back Nothing can catch me when Im moving fast Even those rattling chains of the past So Ill go like that arrow but with nowhere to land I am losing velocity, height and command We all hit the ground, we all fall from the sky We burn up, we break up, we wreck and we cry But were bound up together by sight and by pact That begins with the touch of your hand on my back