The Middle Ages Lyrics - The Things That We Are Made Of - Mary Chapin Carpenter

Looking back is not the same as looking forward 

You can't see what it is you're heading toward 

All that's visible is what's left behind 

The dreams distilled and the dreams discarded 

What made you leap or left you empty hearted 

In the moment and in the fullness of time 

Now you see what it is that you would have changed if only you'd known 

Where you'd be and to be here is very strange waking up alone 

In the middle ages 

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All along you paid close attention 

To the answers when a voice asked the question 

How'd you get here, where do you belong 

17 makes us brave and so full of nerve 

35 makes us pause but we're undeterred 

Never say die and so we push on 

And some come to a place of reckoning try to fix what they find 

I arrived with the questions still beckoning in the back of my mind 

To the middle ages 

Now you bitch about your job what's wrong with folks today 

The price of gas and milk and the guy who begs for change 

He's camped out at the light you hide behind your shades 

And will the green to flash to speed your getaway 

You're racing to keep up or just to be on time 

That's what you tell yourself when the emptiness inside 

Threatens to break out clouding up your eyes you just have to pull over 

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We used to dread lives rendered ordinary 

We always said we'd own a grander story 

But the only kind worth telling somehow 

Is the one about a jolt that makes you listen 

That jagged lightning bolt of recognition 

That love and kindness are all that matter now 

And way back in the back of your mind you heard something getting through 

Like some beautiful passage without words welcoming you to the middle ages