I said, Sophie it's not that easy living out on the coast when most of the people here are so insulated and they walk with their hands in their pockets like talking to someone new would just be too much for them
I said, Sophie it's not been easy since you haven't been around I've been writing you some days I'm still fighting you tempus fuget in the Puget Sound
And I wouldn't say I'll always feel this way it takes time to forge a new home and I knew too well that you never would stay some lives must live on on their own
I said Sophie you kept me busy when Autumn came crashing down when the lights on the signs of the buildings outside called to the crowd: come one, come all, come inside, come and bare your soul where they sat with rapt faces, or eyes to the floor when I was done they said "Son, we've not heard that before" it was you in the rain, it was me in the Spring there's half truth and half lie in the songs that I sing
And I wouldn't say I'll always feel this way it takes time to forge a new home and I knew too well that you never would stay some lives must live on on their own
I said Sophie it's not that easy livin' out on the coast