I loved a girl once and she was very young
Everyday I wonder what I could have done

Now she's sitting somewhere where the walls are all white
Losing herself underneath those fluorescent lights

Each day goes by where the world looks the same
Where the seasons come and change but I find myself the way I came

And I've lost all the things that I lost in you
From losing ourselves in each other like we use to do

Time moves on and those moments that I held 
In my heart each day have now disappeared

Oh well, the mountains stare at the face of the sun
The sky smiles down on everyone
We all wonder what we could have done
We end up passing one by one

One by one
One by one
One by one
One by one

Like a flower dancing by the side of the wind
Like a tree growing thin I had nothing to believe in

'Cause now the wind blows through me on the side of the road
Like a freight train howling in the belly of my soul

Now the ocean's nestled in a blanket of stars
Dreaming by the streetlights, dreaming by a freeway of cars

The mountains stare at the face of the sun
The sky smiles down on everyone
We all wonder what we could have done
We end up passing one by one

One by one
One by one
One by one
One by one

I lost my brother when I was very young to a drug he never knew
'cause he could not remember what he'd done
It was my first taste of fear in the hospital hall, staring through a window at his eyes that were black as coal
And even though something inside of him died, he left the room a different person but he made it out alive

Oh, he'd switch our cereals in the morning
Out of fear of being poisoned
By the people that had raised him
By the people that put him here

Oh, but time moves on
And those moments
That I held in my heart each day
Have now disappeared

Oh, the mountains stare at the face of the sun
The sky smiles down on everyone
We all wonder what we could have done
We end up passing one by one

One by one
One by one

The mountains stare at the face of the sun
The sky smiles down on everyone
We all wonder what we could have done
We all end up passing one by one

One by one
One by one
One by one
One by one
One by one
One by one