Lyrics Way It Is, Way It Could Be - The Weather Station

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
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

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

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

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