Lyrics

Like Dying
copyright 2005 by Bobby Lightfoot/boatsongs/BMI/all rights reserved


A wing of birds across the sky
A window flying open?
A ring of blood around the moon
An empty house in winter?

You can never say what you?re gonna do
Who you?re gonna know
What you?re gonna reap
What you?re gonna sow-
You just never know
If it?s gonna be a good day
And you?re always being born

Even when it feels
Like dying?

The way the curtains catch the wind
The way that sweetness follows?
Your fathers kiss upon your mouth
When flowers grew in winter?

Maybe there?s a way you can say what you want to say
Maybe next week, maybe today
Opening your veins for your chance to be
The chosen one?
But you?re just gonna have to live-

Even when it feels
Like dying?

My only wish is that I?d
Spent less time missing things that
Weren?t in my power to undertake

My one request is that you
Please keep my memory with the
Songs that I wrote when I was alive?