You Never Know
2013 · Zack Smith
She said, “Get away, get, get away… Get away from me now.
I don’t know anyone. There ain’t a soul here I can trust in this town.
Everybody’s waiting for the train to come and take them away.
All aboard now! I’m gonna lay down, let it take me too. I’ll never be found…
No, no, no no.”
Oh, you never know when it comes
Tears a hole in your home
The demolition’s begun
Oh, but when the cyclone appears
Can’t even grab what you hold dear
Can’t even run
“I lost everything that day.
God threw all my cares away.
I can’t see it – I won’t believe that there’s an end nor any need for this pain.
I don’t know what the game is but I don’t want any part just the same,
No, no, no, no.”
Oh, a flame’s small when it starts
But it’ll burn through your heart
It doesn’t know what you’ve done
Ah, it breaks out in a flash
You gotta sift through the ashes
To find what you’ve become
Oh, oh… You never know where you are 'til you can’t run away
You never see 'til the smoke fills the house where you’ve stayed
You can’t rest without bare ground on your face
Oh, you won’t see where it’s from
When your life’s come undone
When a part of you dies
True, you never know what it’s worth
To put your tears in the earth
Sit down there and cry
You will surely be found
For there’s a seed in that ground
Needs water to thrive…
