Patty Griffin - Time of the Dance lyrics

He could hear those words of her mama still The talk of the ways and the always will be's She'd laugh at the time and pretend to be free But she'd never run far from the legacy She's trying the wind like the crack of a whip She places her fingertips up to her lips She thinks of a feeling that she can't quite recall And a few days when she'd been ahead of it all She stepped past the clocks She stepped high and wide Strong and true to the other side Kickin' away all the mud from her heels To the time of the dance To the second chance To the dust and the hours pa**ed under the wheels Oh she stepped to the time of the dance She says sometimes being a husband and wife Feels like a fight against natural life And that there is no bigger chain on your soul And you're always dancing out in the cold Sometimes the light hits the side of his face And it fills up your heart like a soft embrace She knows that the struggle is more than a day More than the words that her mama could say Well they stepped past the clocks They stepped high and wide Strong and true to the other side Kicking away all the mud from their heels To the time of the time To the second chance To the dust and the hours pa**ed under the wheels Oh they stepped to the time of the dance She said turn off the tv Hush all the sound All you can hear is the rain Just slip out the doorway And let the rain fall down Steal all the light brushing back to our town Well we'll step past the clocks Step high and wide Strong and true to the other side Kicking away all the mud from their heels To the time of the dance The second chance Til the dust and the hours pa**ed under the wheels We'll step to the time of the dance Oh we'll step to the time of the dance