How Long Until We Get There

You walk up to the stoplight
 Don't notice me watching you from my car
 And I don't know how, I don't know why
 But I know who you are
 Hands deep in your pockets
 Head down like a child reciting grace
 And I don't know where, I don't know when
 But I've seen your face
 We've never shared it but we feel we have
 We've never heard it but it's in the air
 We worry deeply so we try to laugh
 How long until we get there?
 Ship lost on a prairie
 Somewhere on a former ocean swell
 Wood dark as the night
 But colors are bright and clear as a bell
 I'm not always like this
 I can't always find something this good
 In places I go, on corners I know
 In my own neighborhood
 Every day and every night
 And everything I ever had right
 Was never enough, never quite there
 We never quite reached it
 We never shared it...