Take More Time Cover Less Ground Songtext
von Carrie Newcomer

I′m an old wind-up clock in an ancient tower
I'm a lone table lamp and the appointed hour
I′m what's never been named and is nameless still
I'm the echo that comes back from the bottom of the well
Let me rest in the arms of these tangle roots
I′ve been wearing my longing like a backpack and boots
Let me notice the wheels how they rattle and turn
How my life′s filled with kindness that I didn't earn
Time to pick it all up and to lay it back down
Time to know what I seek has already been found
Time to listen for what never made a sound
Time to take more time and cover less ground
I′m surprise how these days so quickly pass
Not half empty or full just a big ol' glass
Some answers don′t come but it's enough to ask
Deep calls to deep and vast calls to vast


Time to pick it all up and to lay it back down
Time to know what I seek has already been found
Time to listen for what never made a sound
Time to take more time and cover less ground
When the light lets loose and the stars take a bow
I′m grateful we're all safe and here for now
And that love keeps us tethered somewhere somehow
Now in the season of come on home
Slowing my life to the speed of my soul
Now when the reason's been never so clear
At the end of a hard but holy year
Time to pick it all up and to lay it back down
Time to know what I seek has already been found
Time to listen for what never made a sound
Time to take more time and cover less ground
Time to take more time and cover less ground