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You Rise and Meet the Day Lyrics

Dar Williams

We could pretend that we're walking on petals and light, golden light 
Flaunting our love like a dance step mastered, turning from left to right 
But after all the colored lights are gone 
Time will leave the ashes and the dawn 
You rise and meet the day  

Watching you go, it's like spying on hope ever onward with more to burn 
Giving your hands and your heart to the wheel of the world, though it fights each turn 
But you do not give up so easily 
That's how I know you won't surrender me 
You rise and meet the day 
It's all I need, it's all I need to know, it's all I need to know  

And I love you all the time 
I had always feared that some gloomy ingratitude would seize me 
But you have held the dream like every morning finds 
A way to hang the sun up in the sky 
And now I think I have it too – 
The greatest part I learned from you 
You rise and meet the day  

And I can see kids, maybe ours, maybe not, ohohoh, I can hear what they'll say 
Laughing at pictures with the old-fashioned hats and the clothes that we're wearing today 
And they will know the true and humble power 
Of love that made it through the darkest hour 
You rise and meet the day 
It's all I need, it's all I need to know, it's all I need to know