I would sing a thousand songs
if I thought one ever could
lead you into these old arms
so I could greet you like I should.
‘Cause I’ve seen birds flying,
I’ve seen waves crash on the shore.
But they’re nothing to my eyes on you
when you danced on by my door.
Child running home from the schoolyard
with the long grass whipping his shins.
Just a kid who don’t know that there’s nowhere to go:
that’s how I’d run to see you again.
This is not a song for sunlight.
It’s a song for the rain in you.
But if you won’t come when you hear my voice,
I’ll play it for the Devil, too.
‘Cause I’ve seen men dying
and I’ve laid my tears on the shore.
But I never knew this kind of sorrow
‘till you danced on by my door.
Lord, I never knew the sorrow you
danced on by my door.
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