Brian Hartt - Before Now Lyrics

When I was a kid, I believed in ghosts
They traveled endless hallways on their way back home
I'd stay up all night making maps for those lost souls
Before today, I thought we'd accomplish our goals

I am just a spirit floating up above the world we've come to know
And I'm hoping one day soon I'll make it home

When I was a boy, I treated love like it was a toy
I lost more friends than a headstone would care to count
I look down from above on all the people that I love
And I try hard not to think about you now

I am just a spirit floating up above the world we've come to know
And I'm hoping one day soon I'll make it home

Before now I could believe in a world I couldn't see
And before now I was searching for my time
Before now I believed in the faith you put in me
And before now I thought that we would all be fine

Before my best friend Kevin learned to load a gun
Before Max took his parents' care and decided to run
Before Andy woke up on the hotel floor
Before Kelly had to learn what her father was for
Before Emma bought a house two hours away
Before Alyssa begged Brandon for just one more day
Before we buried Becca six feet under ground
Now we're way more lost and a lot less found
Before Hillary and Donald had us all caught up
Before we had to hold our funerals in our nightclubs
Before our children had to learn to ring the mourning bell
Before we fired up the drones and sent the world to hell
Before the derivatives drove us off a fiscal cliff
Before the silence of the many turned into a fist
My feet float off the floor because I can't take anymore
It's an imaginary past that I'm looking for
You don't have to tell me twice
You know I know
But I'm a traveling spirit on my way back home