Light up, light up As if you have a choice Even if you cannot hear my voice I'll be right beside you dear Louder, louder And we'll run for our lives I can hardly speak I understand Why you can't raise your voice to say I'll sing it one last time for you

Light up, light up As if you have a choice Even if you cannot hear my voice I'll be right beside you dear Louder, louder And we'll run for our lives I can hardly speak I understand Why you can't raise your voice to say I'll sing it one last time for you

Hey don't wait for me there Just find your own way 'Cause I'll be there soon enough All perched alone he sits there broken An eldered man with storm clouds setting in his eyes He counts the sands of time remembering day's gone by It seemed like yesterday

Love ain't for keeping Lay down beside me Lay down my darling Layin' on my back In the newly mown grass Rain is coming down But I know the clouds will pass You bring me tea Say "the babe's a-sleepin'"

I will eat you all alive There'll be no more lies There's be no more lies Where I end and you begin I am up in the clouds There's a gap in between There's a gap where we meet And I'm sorry for us The dinosaurs roam the earth

Take me into your loving arms Kiss me under the light of a thousand stars I'm thinking out loud Place your head on my beating heart When your legs don't work like they used to before And I can't sweep you off of your feet Will your mouth still remember

And a smile from you Close your eyes and dream of a sunny place Watch the world light up when you smile Stay with me and smile at me, sunny face Chase the clouds away with your smile Make a smile for me Lately I've been so lonely Might make these blues

But you gotta be there for me too I'll be there for you I'll be loud for you But I can't do this alone Sometimes I just need a light If I call you on the phone Need you on the other side So when your tears roll down your pillow like a river When you're

Don't bring around a cloud to rain on my parade I'll march my band out, I'll beat my drum And if I'm fanned out, your turn at bat, sir At least I didn't fake it, hat, sir I guess I didn't make it Get ready for me love, 'cause I'm a comer I simply gotta

And the rain will fall, it falls for you. And the clouds will break into tears, You should be here standing so near to me. 'Cept I know you should be sad But give me time alone to get it out of my mind. Though say I know it's only the weather. 'Cause