I saw you three times   In a face in the crowd   Called out your name   Just as clear and a loud   As I could without thinking   It wouldn't be you   But a lie in my head   Was a hope that died true      I saw what I thought   Was that look in your eyes   On the face of a stranger man   Standing in line   And all I know now   When it comes to you   Is that I ran outta stars   For one wish to come true      And gone are the days when I still had the time   And please tell my mother I'm doing alright   But it's slow, slow and gone is the life that I've known   The life that I've known      It's already November    we've been driving all night   Never thought that we'd bring it this far   In a working man's town   Thought I'd see you around   On the shotgun side   With my own two eyes      Then I saw you three times   In a rear view mirror   Like the broken white stripes in the dark   Could've sworn it was you   By the light of the moon   Like a Tennessee cross in a fog      And gone are the days when I still had the time   And please tell my mother I'm doing alright   But it's slow, slow and gone is the life that I've known   The life that I've known      And gone are the days when I still had the time   And please tell my mother I'm doing alright   But it's slow, slow and gone is the life that I've known   The life that I've known