LIVE A LIFETIME

I went searching for your home
Empty streets and drawn blinds
Could we sit and talk a while?
Could we speak our minds?
Leaflets rain from hollow skies
Hung up on the phone lines
Should we scatter as they fly?
Or should we live a lifetime?

Saw your gate left open wide
Walked beneath your grapevine
Saw you through your window there
Have done many times
Candles in your living room
Gave your books a dull shine
You could burn them one by one
Or you could live a lifetime
You could live a lifetime

Sacred songs are stars that shine
Sacred songs are true

Maybe I should sing for you
Songs to fit the long climb
You could measure out your years
Or you could live a lifetime
You could live a lifetime

If we step back, we turn away
Ghost along the grapevine
The Spirit walking darkened streets
Past the stars that shine,
To the hills with distant guns
Message for the front line
"You can march in right away
For they will walk a straight line
You can take this child at play
For they have lived a lifetime
They have lived a lifetime
They have lived a lifetime."

© 2017 Chris LeRoy/
Published by New West Crash Music /ASCAP