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Before The Light Is Gone

by Ron Sexsmith

on Carousel One (2015)

Well, I'd better get myself up
Every morning brings another song
With a melody to develop
Morning, before the light is gone

I hear on the bustling sidewalk
Better keep on with my keeping on
If I am on a bus that's piled up
Open before the light is gone

Street car rolling
Letting people on
For me I was strolling
With a head full of songs

I feel like a faded flower
Dreaming of when we were young
Trying to fill every waking hour
With meaning before the light is gone

The rain kept falling
A weekend long
Me, I was scrawling
Out a head full of songs

Well I try to keep myself from
Feeling like I don't belong
Let's see what this life's so welcome
Feeling, before the light is gone
I'm all in, before the light is gone
All day, before the light is gone