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If I were young again, Iâd pay attention - To that
little-known dimension
A taste of endless time
It's just like water â it runs right through our fingers
But the flavor of it lingers - Like a rich, red wine
In those days we were single â we lived them one by one
Now we hardly see âem â they donât walk - they run
But I've got plenty left Iâve set my sight on
Donât wait up - Leave the light on - Iâll be â home -
Short break
Iâve never seen my life in such a hurry - But if I
stop to worry â I get left behind
Itâs just a party, but you donât get invitations â and
thereâs just one destination
You better be on time.
For years we rhymed in couplets - And we sang âem two by two
Now we hardly rhyme at all â but hereâs a few
And if they hurt, thereâs bullets left to bite on
Donât wait up - Leave the light on - Iâll be â home -
Short break
That drummer in my head needs inspiration
Thereâs a lack of syncopation â and it holds me to a line
Itâs just so hard to leave these cages that weâre thinking
By stages weâre just sinkinâ - to a slow decline
For years we lived in waltz time â we danced them
three by three
Now itâs hard to dance, but if you stick with me â
Weâve got what we need to spend the night on -
Donât wait up - Leave the light on - Iâll be â home -
These races that weâve run were not for glory - No
moral to this story â
We run for peace of mind.
But the race weâre running now is never-ending â space and time are bending
And thereâs no finish line -
I will live to be a hundred - I was born in â44 - 33 to go, but I ainât keepinâ score -
I've been left for dead before - but I still fight on âDonât wait up â Leave the light on
Iâll be home soon
'Cause I been left for dead before - but I still fight on â
Donât wait up â Leave the light on
Iâll be home soon
- Album:
- Still on the Levee
- Hundred Dollar Valentine
- Time Stands Still
- Miscellaneous
- 2012 Collection - Signature Sounds
- Small Revelations
- Train Home
- Leave the Light On
- Younger Than That Now
- Live at the World Café, Volume 9
- Drive You Home Again
- Philadelphia Folk Festival 40th Anniversary
- Massachusetts for Folk
- 91.3fm WYEP Live & Direct
- Up on the Lowdown & Drive You Home Again
- Up On the Lowdown
- Blues Live From Mountainstage