Hand On My Back Lyrics - The Things That We Are Made Of - Mary Chapin Carpenter

I move through the world like an arrow that flies 

Slicing the air as I'm mapping the skies 

And way deep down the echoes remain 

Memories sounding like rattling chains 

But lately I think I am coming around 

I'm liking the feel of my feet on the ground 

And last night I stopped dead in these tracks 

Recalling your hand on the small of my back 

The slightest brush but as powerful too 

As an electrical storm that's moving on through 

Then is gone as fast as it came, leaving nothing, 

Not even the rain 

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When I was younger how I took my time 

Folly and wisdom form points on a line 

From one to another with space in between 

For the lessons you learn & the dreams that you dream 

But tell me what happens when dreams don't come true 

How you overcome some things until they overtake you 

Why you never got chosen, why you never felt claimed 

By some passion or person that is never explained 

I come on quiet but I'm fierce as a lion 

Life will take us apart but we never stop trying 

To proceed as if whole and intact 

Like I felt with your hand on my back 

Nothing can catch me when I'm moving fast 

Even those rattling chains of the past 

So I'll go like that arrow but with nowhere to land 

I am losing velocity, height and command 

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We all hit the ground, we all fall from the sky 

We burn up, we break up, we wreck and we cry 

But we're bound up together by sight and by pact 

That begins with the touch of your hand on my back