Paula Cole - Life Goes On lyrics

Love child accident born
To children themselves
She nearly died on the table giving birth
To her first back in ’63
That was my sister Irene
Moved into the trailer park in Ithaca
New York
Took another job while he was going to school
Another mouth to feed well, that was me

Oh round and round and round we go
The seasons melt away like snow
Oh round and round and round we go
The years they pass away and life goes on

Couldn’t stop trying too damned hard
Being everything to everybody
But he couldn’t hold up his heart
And it broke him down so he left that town
Moved again to the cold blue North
Little town on the sea
Innocent dreams of hope that
They’d grow to be
A little better than what he had

Oh round and round and round we go
The seasons melt away like snow
Oh round and round and round we go
The years they pass away and life goes on

Father, eagle-scout, mentor, boy
Silence the table with that
Bear in your voice
My frozen fear, my swallowed tears
Always coming down the hardest on the
Ones that you love best
All my life I’ve looked to your eyes
I’m looking back on the younger
Me trying so hard a fragile bird in the
Golden girl seeking love
Her father’s child, walking in his stride
And I’m looking now at the older
Man you’ve turned out to be
The hardness has softened to empathy
We’ve made amends, we’re better friends

Oh round and round and round we go
The seasons melt away like snow
Oh round and round and round we go
The years they pass away and life goes on