Song For Leon

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I walk along the seashore at sunset

And view the hues in the crystal sky.                        

I turn my face to the heaven’s above me        

An’ I say, “Hey, Show Me A Way To Stay High”. 

 

I watch as the passing years corrode

The heart from a young man’s dream.

I see my destination more clearly now

And I find that it’s not what it seemed.

 

How can I try to hold back my tears

When I think of the man that’s gone?

Lord, why did you give him just 23 years

And then why did you make me live on, and on?

Why did you make me live on?

     

The past is just water run under time’s bridge

And today is just here for a while

And that pathway we’re all followin’ is a phantom of mist

Where each step seems like a mile.

Don’t each step feel like a mile?

 

How can I know this is a dream ‘til I wake?

I feel like one star in a sky

And death might just be life’s greatest reward.

Tell me how can we know ‘til we die?

How can we know ‘til we die?

 

I walk along the seashore at sunset                            

And view the hues in the crystal sky.                        

I place my faith in the heavens above me        

An’ I say, “Hey, Show Me A Way To Stay High”. 

Hey, Show Me A Way To Stay High.

 

© 1983 - RDT