Chasing What's Already Gone Lyrics - Ashes & Roses - Mary Chapin Carpenter

There's a big white house on a leafy street 

On a summer's day of 1963 

Station wagons parked in the drive 

Dents in the fender and wood on the side 

There's kids and dogs and instamatic cubes squinting hard in the sun 

Not just yet, but one day too 

They'll be chasing what's already gone 

You grow up tall and you grow up tough 

Trying to never admit not feeling good enough 

Until you find your passion and you find your way 

Just trying to make it unscathed through every day 

And it seems to happen nearly overnight 

Life shows you who you've become 

And there's no more mystery in the fading light 

You're just chasing what's already gone 

Like the line that spells the far horizon 

Moving with you as fast as you can run 

Half your life you pay it no attention 

The rest you can't stop wondering 

What you should have done 

Instead of chasing what's already gone 

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Saw my father in a dream last night 

He was smiling and saying "You're gonna be all right" 

And this morning I stared back at myself 

Feeling as empty as I've ever felt 

But I keep on going and I hope I've learned 

More of what's right than what's wrong 

It's ashes and roses and time that burns 

When you're chasing what's already gone 

Ashes and roses and hearts that break 

I tried so hard to be strong 

But maybe my worries were not my first mistake 

I'm chasing what's already gone 

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