Boston - Patty Griffin

I went back to Boston

Back to the city you were lost in

I went back to the place

Without your face in the stone

Walked around Harvard Square

The runaway kids are still hanging out there

And I took the red line

All the way across the River Charles

Some things try and try

But they never fly, and they never fly

You reach up from the waves

And find that you’re only waving goodbye

Went walking in Boston

Over a bridge I used to walk on

I was looking for my heart

That I’d flung into that sea of stone

Boston said, you need not apply

For your license to fly

Hey, young lady, don’t look so surprised

You know you’re not alone

Some things try and try

And they never fly, and they never fly

You reach up from the waves

And find that you’re only waving goodbye

It was Memorial Day

I went to where you lay

There were thousands of people

Just like you in a giant graveyard

You came all of that way

Looking for the sky, you got a slap in the face

You had a desperate need to be loved

You just got put in that place

You better know your place, boy

Some things try and try

And they never fly, and they never fly

You reach up from the waves

And find that you’re only waving goodbye

Only waving

You’re only waving

You’re only waving

You’re only waving goodbye