Island Creek - Aaron Thompson

I met you in the winter

In the bowels of Albany

We were a silent film

As we walked down Island Creek

You said 'That lonely mountain wind

Still stirs me in my sleep

I was a country girl back then

A collage of tangled memories.'

I once held you in my arms

But destiny pulled us apart

Oh, time it lingers on

Like a leaf after the storm

Like the memory of a lover

That you called your only one

So here’s one to remember

And another to forget

And one to drown the voices

Of a lifetime of regret

And another for your brother

And a fifth for solitude

And this one’s just for knowing

You are no one and no one is you

I once held you in my arms

But destiny pulled us apart

Across wires and setting suns

I will walk that road alone