The Gift Road Runs On 'til Morning song lyrics
The Gift Road Runs On 'til Morning song lyrics
Trapped in a circle of stones
All my life
Raking over the bones and the sun's so gray
I turn my face away
Caught in the jaws of the city now
Its yellow teeth bite hard
I see old men, young men
Digging for gold in their own backward
I want to keep my powder dry
Remember how to fly
If the chance should come my way
I'll seize the day, I'll get away
Held in your sweet, sad face
Oh, I know you feel it too
Let's pack our lives into a suitcase
We both know what we've gotta do
The road runs on ‘til morning
I can hear tomorrow calling
Living in our eyes
And in everything we say
We're going to keep our powder dry
Remember how to fly
And if the chance should come our way
We'll seize the day, we'll get away
It's never too late to try
Don't let the living years pass you buy
If the chance should come our way
We'll seize the day, we'll get away
Like a slow fading song
The past plays on and on
Moving through the rear view of our lives
Drive us away
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Just above the reaching arms
Just beyond the straining ears
Just below the line of slight
The subtle, soft unspoken fears
In the leaf that spins on stone
The interference on the phone
Dancing in the hopeful's eyes
And all the things we patronize
Lies the life too great to name
Just below the aging skin
Underneath the scars of years
Ringing in the silent psalms
The living waters of our tears
Hides the life, lies the life
Oh, the life too great to name
Softly, softly our dreams are spun
Like webs of dew in the waking sun
We wander in green valleys now
Nothing stands in our way
I can see we're getting old
In this slow, sad waltz with time
But we'll burn beneath the creeping cold
With hearts of flame, of molten gold
We're going to keep our powder dry
Remember how to fly
In the breaking light of day
All the furies fade away
So we raise our voices high
As we spread our wings to fly
Whatever comes our way
We'll take our chance and seize the day
And the road runs on and on…