Night Falls

Time has shown its face Too many words, too many hopes And too much we've learned And life won't wait in comfortable chairs You look so bleak without a care Sometimes her eyes close before nightfall And sometimes my eyes close before nightfall Cancer calls Dancing on the seams Leaves from a tree All that fades and all that we feed And I can be brave if you can be bare Stripping the life and taking what's there Sometimes her eyes close before nightfall Take these wings and learn to fly Hold these eyes which never cry Watch on me just like a child Sometimes my eyes close And sometimes her eyes close before nightfall Cancer calls