Clouds were rolling fast
Over the evergreens
The crowd was walking
Through the rain
Hanging back with you
Watching it all go by
Day of a century
Mired in a loss
Of some endless kind
There was always a light
I couldn't see
To the dustbin of love
A good fortune
In you and I
Was sent to me
The show is running on time
But it don't matter now my love
No one can know
What any other has felt
Though our pain
Is ranked nowadays
And while some
In great beauty rise above
Others become their misery
I saw you scowling
In the corner
So I came on by
And again it would be
Your night to starve or feed
I said, I know you've
Been having it hard
But I was hoping
That for just tonight
You could feel happy for me
All I wanted
Was this bright day alive
Without your sentiment
Dragging me down
To your place
Wishful thinking
The sky would eventually part
And the sun came out
In the warmest light
I've ever seen
The hour there was lost
Of space and time
No memory
Your absence then was felt
More than any other time
Of all the life you couldn't see
And I felt it all again
As in more hopeless nights
A wish you were guiding me
I remembered
Those kids in the sun
On a school-day out
With a banner across
Marching the streets
And a chant
That echoed loud
Onto an empty block
That their lives
Should matter to me
Fuck
Don't these kids
Get a right to their lives
Without having to sell it
Living in apology
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