How Best to See the Light

I'm slipping down the alleyway
Through places where I used to play
A stranger to my neighbourhood
Oh how it's changed but I knew that I never could

I'm longing for the longer days
When time was slow and friends were made
The future wide as open sky
And all the stars would look me in the eye

But as I look into the past
So many things that didn't last
Could I have changed the way that it went?

I'm walking down this winding road
And where it's leading, I don’t know
When to lead and when to follow, oh

I'm fonder than I used to be
Of racing cars and skinning knees
Maybe I'll learn or maybe not
Either way, I see what fate has got

So this is how the story goes
I never guessed, I didn't know
When all the dreams that pass us by
Return as questions without answers why

How best to see the light
Than to bring it to the darkest night
How best to see the dark
Than to bring it right inside our heart
How best to see the sun
Than to see what it has done
How best to seen the stars than in the darkest of night

Ooooh ooooh
the darkest of the nights
Ooooh ooooooh

How best to see the sky
Than to reach your arms open wide
How best to see the moon
Than to watch the way the waters move
How best to feel the cold
Than to have someone to hold
How best to see the light than in the darkest of night
How best to see the light than in the darkest of night

I come without anything
But a hunger not yet named and yet it stands like February, stark and true
I come to you: I'm hopeful and I'm tender and I love you

I'm hushed and I'm mesmorized
Won't you tell me, if I blink then will I turn your beauty into a mirage?
I watch and wait your presence only ever getting stronger

Oh mirror moon
Oh moon mirror
Oh mirror moon
Oh moon mirror

Please come a' travelling
Across a thousand seas and maybe then you'll tell me how the waters move
The blind, the blue, they feel their own devotion when they're near you

You are contented
To make your magic in the dark, to travel in the night
To live so proud and quiet in the shadow of the sunlight

Oh mirror moon
Oh moon mirror
Oh mirror moon
Oh moon mirror

I would give anything
To rule the night as you do, so perfect and loved
Your light, a crown, a beggar has more riches than a kingdom

I come without anything but a heart that once was empty
Now it's overflowing, filling with your light
You heal, you glow, revealing all the things to show at midnight

Oh mirror moon
Oh moon mirror
Oh mirror moon
Oh moon mirror
Oh mirror moon
Oh moon mirror
Oh mirror moon
Oh moon mirror

I met you at the market
I don't know what we started
The trouble with my heart is
It's hopeful as the dew

White sneakers on the table
Before they hit the pavement
The intoxicating fable
Of something fresh and new

I know I have to let go but I'm holding on
I feel the push and the pull can't stop holding on
To the dream of you

The coffee shop is closing
Cupid's arrow's barely showing
Our lover's game is growing
I even know your middle names

Juggling all the voices
And the disappearing choices
You're getting way too boisterous
Have you always been this way?

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Meet me at the station
When all the seats are taken
I suppose the constellations
Told us this could never could be

The hopes of us were shattered
The new paint has all been splattered
Our love forever scattered
But I have my perfect dream

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You, the bringer of treats
I am down on my knees
I'm praying for a sunny day, but not as much as you

My life, depending on this:
Trading words for a kiss
Must I leave the warmth of sun, just to see the moon?

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A beaming sun
A monarch wing
These and so many things
A gentle hug
The scent of spring
I can not say why my heart sings

You, with caramel eyes
Me, with plenty of smiles
We're hoping for a brand new day, something just like this

You, the bringer of treats
I am down on my knees
I've fallen for the simple things, just as much as you did

Violet sky
A toothless grin
These and so many things
Laughing eyes
A golden ring
So, so many things
An apple pie
A moonlit swim ...
Hot July
Meandering
I can not say why my heart sings
Why my heart sings

I have a habit of falling in love with each beautiful moment I meet
Want to hold it, want to keep it
Want to show it all about the now or never
Tried to bottle it up but it just flew away

I have a habit of falling in love with each beautiful breath that I breathe
Want to taste it, want to chase it
Want to show it all about the now or never
I put it into my cup and my cup overflowed

Oooh!
If you love it let it go!
Oooh!
If you love it let it go!

I have a habit of falling in love with each beautiful soul that I see
Want to be them, really see them
Want to show them all about the now or never
They won’t fit in a box, on a hook or a chain

You've won my heart
And soon we'll part
But just before you go
I love you, don't you know

I have a habit of falling in love with each beautiful moment I meet
There's another, then another
They can show me all about the now or never, now or never
When I'm falling in love the whole world comes alive

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Who could've known
That the beauty of the sunrise,
the promise of the light could make me cry
If we're lucky, we get second and third chances,
Learn the steps before we're dancing in the light
Hope we get it right

Once in a while
I hear my baby crying
I can't stand the pain inside his gentle heart
Don't know what he's hiding
We're all afraid of dying
Come, love, please just show me what's inside
While we're still alive

It keeps breaking my heart
It keeps breaking my heart
It keeps breaking my heart, again and again
It keeps breaking my heart
It keeps breaking my heart
It keeps breaking my heart 'til it opens

I never knew
All the ways that I could hurt you
What carelessness could make a young girl do
Didn't mean to make you angry
Step on toes or get too fancy
How can I just forgive me and move on?
I can't right the wrongs

I couldn't give
What I didn't have inside me
Still can't give you all the credit you deserve
How could you ever love me
All the faults and all the mystery
As I age I'm getting wrinkly
Can't you see?
Time won't wait for me

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I forget why it is that we were fighting
Sometimes I have to fight to feel alive
You pull my chain
And I'm as stubborn as a pitbull
I stop listening
I start singing to myself
Know it all too well

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Now it's open

The wind is howling like a coyote
Something is a'foot
But I am staying put

It speaks of things I don't yet know
But like a Japanese movie
Somehow it cuts right through me

I just woke from a night of a thousand dreams

And secrets in forgotten tongues
How could we let it break?
Was it grandma's worst mistake?

A dance that I have never learned
But the swaying is familiar
And I can hear that distant whisper

I just woke from a night of a thousand dreams

Picking up the pieces, disconnected from tradition
I’m the child of a child
Trying to put them back together without a picture of the puzzle
Like the child of a child

Oooooh

And now I whimper in the stillness
Something's passed me by
And I couldn't tell you why

And all those dreams that I've forgotten
Just an imprint or a feeling
What were they all revealing?

I just woke from a night of a thousand dreams
And I just lost a thousand dreams

Love leads, love leads us right back to the centre
When we're circling 'round to find the answer
And it's hidden deep within us

Love brings, love brings us right back to the middle
When the edges are so tough and brittle
It can soften us, a little

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That is love
That is love
That is love
That is love
That is love
That is love

Love brings, the farthest people back together
When the words won't ever make it better
It can help to keep us tender

Love waits, 'til we've exhausted every reason
It knows no bounds and knows no seasons
And it never stops believin'

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Love knows, love knows us in our darkest moments
Love is soft enough to break us open
And be the thing that keeps us going

Love lifts, love lifts the things we can't look under
It can calm us in the face of thunder
It's the holy place of wonder

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This is love
This is love
This is love
This is love
This is love
This is love