We could pretend that we're walking on petals and light, golden light
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Flaunting our love like a dance step mastered, turning from left to right
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But after all the colored lights are gone
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Time will leave the ashes and the dawn
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You rise and meet the day
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I'm watching you go, it's like spying on hope ever onward with more to burn
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Giving your hands and your heart to the weave of the world, though it fights each turn
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But you do not give up so easily
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That's how I know you won't surrender me
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You rise and meet the day
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It's all I need, it's all I need to know, it's all I need to know
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And I love you all the time
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I had always feared that some gloomy ingratitude would seize me
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But you have held the dream like every morning finds
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A way to hang the sun up in the sky
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And now I think I have it too ?
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The greatest part I learned from you
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You rise and meet the day
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And I can see kids, maybe yours, maybe not, ohohoh, I can hear what they'll say
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Laughing at pictures with the old-fashioned hats and the clothes that we're wearing today
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And they will know the true and humble power
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Of love that made it through the darkest hour
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You rise and meet the day
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It's all I need, it's all I need to know, it's all I need to know
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You Rise and Meet the Day
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| Dar Williams |
