Slow Surprise (a soundtrack from The Horse Whisperer, 1998)
There is a way that subtle changes to stay Barely noticed, hardly known One day you'll say my situation's locked away But by tomorrow you're all alone
It seems so sudden but it's not, it's only grown From a scene that long ago was left Forgotten in the snow And has a way with slow surprises all its own
It's hard to show but like a boulder rollin' slow Or a rumble, deep in the ground Things whisper low and by the time I really know What's been movin', they've settled down
Too late to see the way they're shiftin' 'round Too late to say there's bound to be another way It's all been said and done without a sound
This comes to me and now that I begin to see It's not dramatic, it's nothing grand I used to be half of the whole of you and me Now I'm the limit of all I am
It seems so simple, nothin' much to understand You walked out and closed the door Said I don't live here anymore And now nothin's hangin' heavy in my hands Now nothin's hangin' heavy in my hands.