Valley Maker - When the Day Leaves

I was not prepared
For the real, living beauty
Sleeping in everything
To wake up and undo me
And I know what I meant
But the meaning kept growing
Into some kind of static, ghost-ridden smokescreen My mother, my father
Though time made us strangers
I'm a child in your house
And I'm grateful for my dinner
And I wait there
Well I cut my teeth
Like so many before me
In the pine tree, Bible Belt, purgatory One picture I've held
With so many escaping, is
My grandmother's vision
Through a glass dimly
Now I'm walking with you
It's precisely when the day leaves And the tops of the trees
Look frozen in a painting
And I wait there
How could I forget all the colors I've seen That kind of blue
That emits off the sound in the spring And I know where I've been
Though I'm now often sinking
Into meaninglessness, stupidity, and grieving And I thank you
For one more day I've been given
Just to lie down beside
And feel the night erase it
And I wait there
I long for peace
And I long to be riven
By the only judgement
Love among the living
Now the border checkpoints, the rifles, the politician jackals Eat themselves, they laugh at forgiveness
Well I was not prepared
For your daughter to visit
There's a strength in her life
That defeats all their bullshit
And I wait there
I was not prepared
For the real, living beauty
Sleeping in everything
To wake up and undo me
With the stars in the sky
When the birds all surround me
In their fractured patterns
They cry while they're laughing Now I'm walking with you
It's precisely when the weight leaves And I'm floating, knowing
The puzzle is not changing
And I wait there

Written by:
Jonathan Crane

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Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.

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