Common Ground

Last family gather
We both got drowned out
Over-under age
A moment's all we got to be now
So why am I waiting?

This time I'd rather
We both got thrown out
Before it passed the fame
This motion's all we got to be now
But I couldn't take it

Thinking 'bout, thinking 'bout
Thinking 'bout waiting
Oh, time I wish we'd taken
It's on my mind to see you again
Only I'm leaving again

Last time that I looked to you
With no doubts
All those underrated days
That I remembered so well
Why are they fading?

Try to say something
But I don't know how
All the ways you saved me
You might never get to know now
'Cause I couldn't say it

(Yeah)
Am I over the hill or living under a rock?
Last chance, moving slow
But I know what I got
Reminiscing that I'm wishing
I knew what I was missing
If I listen I can dance to the rhythm I got

Thinking 'bout, thinking 'bout
Thinking 'bout waiting
Oh, time I wish we'd taken
And it's on my mind to see you again
Only I'm leaving again

I felt them turn their backs on you
And lose the time to listen, oh oh
Even with what you've been through
And all that I've been given, oh no

And you could probably find Jesus
Hidden in a crossword
Make him stay for his supper
I remember when you heard your mother's voice
Twenty years after
Oh, I said, who knew it all
Oh, still gives
Every year's after

Passed on the look
Like you knew what I felt
Overthought the fate
Chasing all I hope to be now
So why am I waiting?
I couldn't take it
Why am I waiting, waiting, waiting?

I'm underrated and I'm faded
Trying to make me a plan
But I created all the weight
Of trying to make me a man
It's complicated in the way
I'm always feeling deflated
I've waited patiently
I've hated wasting youthful mistakes
So, shit, don't act like that
Don't pack that crap
Don't call me incapable
Don't lack in facts
I might retract myself from the kids' table
I'm done with all this chasing
And facing cooperation
I'm locked inside the basement
I'm not trying to be complacent

Am I over the hill or living under a rock?
Last chance, moving slow
But I know what I got
Reminiscing that I'm wishing
I knew what I was missing
If I listen I can dance to the rhythm I got

Thinking 'bout, thinking 'bout
Thinking 'bout waiting
Oh, time I wish we'd taken
It's on my mind to see you again
Wanna see again

Thinking 'bout, thinking 'bout
Thinking 'bout waiting
Oh, time I wish we'd taken
It's on my mind to see you again
I won't be again