Way It Is, Way It Could Be

You looked small in your coat, one hand up on the window
 So long now you'd been lost in thought
 No snow on the road we'd been lucky
 And it looked like we would be well past Orleans
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 And past Montmagny, the road giving way to river
 The frozen Saint Lawrence white and blue
 We went out on the ice, and I turned back to you, a figure
 Distant and small in the long view
 Was it a look in your eye? I wasn't sure
 The way it is and the way it could be both are
 We got back in the car
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 You always tell me the truth
 Even when it hurts me or it hurts you
 Could you go a little easy would it kill you?
 Living out the dream, out on the road now for a couple weeks
 So intimate with all that we had wanted
 All that we hoped for and all that we dreamed
 The way it is and the way it could be
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 But how long is it going to go on?
 I'm gonna count on, I'm gonna hold out for nothing much
 A little kindness, a little praise some days
 I get so close, but I don't really touch
 What I get, or what I need
 The way it is and the way it could be
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 Two brown dogs came out running cross the highway
 Panting and low to the ground
 And then they were gone
 For a moment, I had run them down
 I closed and opened my eyes
 They were running up the hill on the other side
 The way it is and the way it could be, both are