Peter Mulvey - Ithica Lyrics

We got the news
Ithica got snow
It was just that kind of day
All I know is that you've gone and left us here below
All I wish is that you'd stay

We leave this cursed city in the same way we come in
We trace the roads
On the way out, we shed our certainties like clothes

We thought this was our sacrifice
But the world knew otherwise
And took you from us
Before your time, right before our eyes

We think we're walking home
But you can't go there unless it wants you
You can stand on the streets
But still the destination haunts you
Is that where you are now?
To have believed that's truest love
Ain't it clever now that we have love and we don't have you

It took this much to make me see
Still I barely understand
Love will always, always be larger and different than our plans

Love will never listen to us
And why should it?
Love knows the score
It builds better songs than we do
It sings a better metaphor