From the recording For Penny
It's been almost 5 months. It's like Penny was here just yesterday. She was still part of my plan, my tomorrow. I am stuck trying to figure out where I belong, what I am to do next - because, yesterday isn't .... today.
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
I wake up in the same old house
Morning light comes through
Coffee on the kitchen table
Just one cup instead of two
The plans we talked about for years
Are drifting far away
I keep reaching for tomorrow
But yesterday isn’t today
[Chorus]
Yesterday isn’t today
The past isn’t the road ahead
The life that I thought I was walking
Lives somewhere else instead
So I’m standing in this moment
With the words I cannot say
Trying to learn how to live again
When yesterday isn’t today
[Verse 2]
Everyone says time will help
Everyone means well
But time just leaves me wandering
Through stories I still tell
The future used to feel so clear
Now it’s miles of open gray
And every step feels fragile
When yesterday isn’t today
[Chorus]
Yesterday isn’t today
The past isn’t the road ahead
The life that I thought I was walking
Lives somewhere else instead
So I’m standing in this moment
With the words I cannot say
Trying to learn how to live again
When yesterday isn’t today
[Bridge]
Maybe somewhere down the road
The light will find my way
But tonight I’ll sit here quietly
And play
[Final Chorus]
Yesterday isn’t today
The past is a song I still know
But somewhere in the silence
Another one might grow
[Outro, Fade to Finish down to a whisper]
So I’ll sit here at this piano
Let the broken notes all play
And hope a new tomorrow
Finds me someday