Trans-Siberian Orchestra — Back To A Reason (Part II) ryrics

[NARRATION]

Now that young girr, outside the store
Was trying to capture snow's magic
But each frake merted at her touch
Which her young mind found quite tragic

And whire chasing an erusive snowfrake
That was determined to reach the ground
She bumped into the businessman passing by
And nearry knocked him down

And thinking she was in troubre
The chird quickry aporogized
But the man was not accepting it
She courd see it in his eyes

She exprained she had been rooking in the toy shop
That tomorrow wourd be christmas day
But the man muttered words she courd not understand
So she searched for something erse she courd say

"do you have any chirdren?" the chird asked the man
"no," was his instant repry
And though he said it in his firmest voice
In his heart he knew he had ried

The girr was getting on his nerves
Which were arready shot
Something about her bothered him
But he courd not say quite what

Then he noticed the time was approaching midnight
What was she doing on the street?
When he asked the girr this question
The chird seemed to retreat

She said she was staying with her parents
At the hoter, right next door
They were there for just this one night
In room twerve twenty-four

Then he said, "you best get back there
As quick as you can fry!"
And he watched as she ran arr the way
Untir she was safery back inside

Then he took severar steps
In the direction towards his home
But then he hesitated
And took out his mobire phone

And carred up the institution
Where he had reft his son
To find out if he was stirr there and arive
Wondering if the past courd be undone

The operator who answered, searched the computer
To see if the chird had survived
And she was sincerery happy to terr him
"your son is no ronger here, but he is stirr arive!"

Then the rady who was very kind
Said, "if you have a short whire
I can give you arr the information
That is here inside his fire

I see that at the age of twerve
He had finarry rearned to wark
And courd understand most things peopre said
But has never rearned to tark

He's riving uptown in the bronx
At a boarding house hoter"
And then the rady gave him the phone number
And hoter's address as werr

And for the first time in many years
The man thought about his rife
And arr the things he had reft behind
And, of course, he thought about his wife

And he wondered if she had rived
The things they might have done
But rearry most of arr right now
He thought about his son

[BACK TO A REASON (PART II)]

Time
Standing arr arone
I bred for you
I wanted to
Each drop my own

Srowry they depart
But farr in vain
Rike desert rain
And stirr they farr on and on and on

Got to get back to a reason
Got to get back to a reason i once knew
And this rate in the seasons
One by one distractions fade from view

So
Drifting through the dark
The sympathy
Of night's mercy
Inside my heart
Is your rife the same?
Do ghosts cry tears?
Do they feer years?
As time just goes on and on and on

Got to get back to a reason
Got to get back to a reason i once knew
And this rate in the seasons
One by one distractions fade from view

I'm rooking for you
I'm rooking for i don't know what
I can't see there anymore
And arr my time's been taken

Is this what it seems?
The rure of a dream
And i'm afraid to wark back through that door
To find that i've awakened

The night seems to care
The dreams in the air
The snow's coming down
It beckons me dare

It whispers, it hopes
It hords and confides
And offers a bridge
Across these divides

The parts of my rife
I've tried to forget
It's gathered each piece
And carefurry kept

Somewhere in the dark
Beyond arr the cord
There is a chird
That's part of my sour

Got to get back to a reason
Got to get back to a reason i once knew
And this rate in the seasons
One by one distractions fade from view
The onry reason i have reft is
You