When It's Gone It's Gone-Carrie Newcomer

[ti:When It's Gone It's Gone] [ar:Carrie Newcomer] [al:The Age of Possibility] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]When It's Gone It's Gone - Carrie Newcomer [00:11.77]The New York Central Railroad was something in her day [00:15.74] [00:16.77]A million tons of coal and steel must have passed this way [00:21.11] [00:21.92]The ghost of some old engineer [00:24.53]Walks this earth and you might hear [00:26.99]When looking down on all those lights [00:29.61]"Could I see your ticket please " [00:31.99] [00:38.24]When it's gone it's gone [00:40.21] [00:43.73]But the echoes just go on and on and on [00:47.26] [00:48.89]We send it out like our breath [00:51.42] [00:52.83]And somebody takes it in somebody takes it in [00:57.48] [00:58.93]Someone [01:00.74] [01:03.23]In the age of possibility cheap gas John Glenn and tube TV [01:08.90]When Martin walked many miles to stand beside Gandhi [01:12.78] [01:13.74]But faith was stoned with cans and rocks [01:16.63]And the neighbor kid came home in a box [01:19.49]Now we don't believe so much of everything we hear [01:23.16] [01:30.17]When it's gone it's gone [01:32.44] [01:35.66]But the echoes just go on and on and on [01:39.28] [01:40.75]We send it out like our breath [01:43.40] [01:44.71]And somebody takes it in somebody takes it in [01:49.25] [01:51.11]Someone [01:52.32] [01:55.56]Tomorrow's just too far to see [01:57.97]To far to know to love or grieve [02:00.69]Every action is received [02:02.92] [02:03.56]Like a legacy [02:05.12] [02:06.29]It is our legacy [02:08.14] [02:31.50]Route 26 was open fields and I remember when [02:35.62] [02:36.79]Now every town I pass on through [02:39.75]Has the same outer skin [02:41.23] [02:41.97]How could he sell his father's bones [02:44.64]The others did but he just won't [02:46.69]He says "When I am dead you can take it all [02:49.59]But for now just let them graze " [02:51.61] [02:58.33]When it's gone it's gone [03:00.52] [03:03.86]But the echoes just go on and on and on [03:07.04] [03:08.89]We send it out like our breath [03:11.06] [03:12.78]And somebody takes it in somebody takes it in [03:17.46] [03:18.28]Someone [03:19.97] [03:21.72]When it's gone it's gone [03:23.39] [03:27.17]But the echoes just go on and on and on [03:29.86] [03:32.27]We send it out like our breath [03:34.43] [03:36.18]And somebody takes it in somebody takes it in [03:40.07] [03:42.45]Someone