Route Nine Legends lyrics

I saw Kevin in the old parking lot
He hit me up for change
He didn't recognize me, but I'd know him any place
I heard he did some time, and then I heard he got an apartment, but he didn't want to stop and chat
Just continued on his way

I don't think it's true that people never really change. Sometimes I wonder if it's all we ever do, but it's hard to make it happen on a schedule
It seems like we're just spinning our wheels, and then suddenly...wе move

I saw Jeff and Ruth at their housе on a Tuesday afternoon
I knew them when we were young, and I'll know them when we're gray
I liked when we were feral youth who joined the circus, but not compared to sitting with people I love after things turned out okay

I don't think it's true that people like us never change, but we don't always change quite in the ways we would have liked to
Sometimes we just respond to life a time or two or ten hundred, and give ‘em time to spread and those reactions will be tangled in the roots

Sometimes I think I've changed, and then I visit where I grew up
The old ways come alive, and I don't always like them now, but there's something that I love about a stop sign where I can't turn left on Sundays in the summer ‘cause that's when there is the flea market in town

I think that there are some things that we can't ever change, but I don't mean some great evil or cowardice inside
There could be a lot of that, but sweep it all away: the thing that's left is empty, and it's full, and we can't kill it if we try