Keep a fire burning in your eye
Pay attention to the open sky
You never know
what will be coming down
I don’t remember losing
track of you
You were always
dancing in and out of view
I must have thought
you’d always be around
Always keeping things
real by playing the clown
Now you’re nowhere
to be found
I don’t know what happens
when people die
Can’t seem to grasp it
as hard as I try
It’s like a song I can hear
playing right in my ear
That I can’t sing
I can’t help listening
And I can’t help feeling
stupid standing ’round
Crying as they
ease you down
’cause I know
that you’d rather
we were dancing
Dancing our sorrow away
right on dancing
there’s nothing you
can do about it anyway
Just do the steps that
you’ve been shown
By everyone
you’ve ever known
Until the dance becomes
your very own
No matter how close to yours
Another’s steps have grown
In the end there is one
dance you’ll do alone
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Keep a fire for the human race
Let your prayers go
drifting into space
You never know what
will be coming down
Perhaps a better world
is drawing near
And just as easily it
could all disappear
Along with whatever meaning
you might have found
Don’t let the uncertainty
turn you around
Go on and make a joyful sound
Into a dancer you have grown
From a seed somebody
else has thrown
Go on ahead and throw
some seeds of your own
And somewhere between
the time you arrive
And the time you go
May lie a reason you were alive
But you’ll never know