Carl Phillips - Wake Up

The road down from everything even you had hardly dared
to hope for has its lonely stretches,yes,but it’s hard to feel alone
entirely:there’s a river that runs beside it the whole way down,
and there’s an over-song that keeps the river company:I’m leaves,
you're the wind…

I used to think the song had to do with the leaves’
confusion,the wind letting up,their mistaking this for something
like courtesy on the wind’s part,or even forgiveness.But leaves don’t
get confused.Silly,to think it.And what can...