Sidetracked to those steps today
The ones we always had to take
Our best-potential-friends to by the lake

The water's down, but it works for me
It always rises in the spring
Whether they'll be here to see it or not


That rope's still in the tree
That none of us can ever seem

To muster up the guts to just jump out of

The roots keep feeding and spanning state lines

That never really mattered to me
Too deep to sever, they keep me connected
To best friends I never get to see


I watch the seeds we've planted grow and consume
Every crisis we go through

Be it place or man, or the way I live
Nothing has entirely destroyed me yet


The roots keep feeding and spanning state lines
That never really mattered to me
Too deep to sever, they keep me connected

To best friends I never get to see

Well, not "never" but never enough

Considering reminders that I stay so proud of
Pictures of couches thrown on to fires
And hotel parties in The 'Brier

The first time we felt west coast sand
And came back home to see that no one understands
Save the few who take the time at night to send

Messages that read, "let me know when you make it in

Safe and sound"

I don't know what I'd do if you weren't around
You're why this means so much, knowing all that I'll give up
Based on four years worth of precedent and repetition


The roots keep feeding and spanning state lines
That never really mattered to me

Too deep to sever, they keep me connected
To best friends I never get to see