Indigo Girls Little Perennials song lyrics

Back in the long stretch of loneliness

I have come to call a living

I'm getting something for all this love's labor

Even when I am forgetting

Oh we oh oh, little perennials

Where'd you come from?

Daughter of my father's second cousin

Loyalties, I got 'em by the dozen

We share a past, we share a blood relation

And that's as good as an invitation

Oh we oh oh, little perennials

Where'd you come from?

I'm in the North Carolina mountains

Just to the west of where I met my calling

If you look south to the foothills of these mountains rising

That's the place where it feels good falling

That's the place that I know

I look for words to fill the empty spaces

All the life revealed in these back stages

I reach for names like little puzzle pieces

Oh perennial, come to me

Oh we oh oh, little perennials

Where'd you come from?