The Day Requires
Comforting darkness is losing its grip.
My heart is spread across the eastern sky,
the sunrise calls me and I must obey.
Stay beside me just a little longer,
hold the cold fire of morning sun at bay;
we'll blind the windows and deny the day.
If hands could stop the heavens, know I would.
I'd shove back hard enough to break the gears,
suspend eternity within this now.
But I don't have the strength to hold back time;
as each small minute spends its finite life,
the morning knows my name, and I must go.
When duty's claims can no longer chain you
and even oath and honor must give way;
promise your return will be in nighttime.
We'll celebrate reunion in the dark,
without the interference of the light,
to draw the poison of this pallid dawn.
Comforting darkness is losing its grip.
My heart is spread across the eastern sky,
the sunrise calls me and I must obey.
Stay beside me just a little longer,
hold the cold fire of morning sun at bay;
we'll blind the windows and deny the day.
If hands could stop the heavens, know I would.
I'd shove back hard enough to break the gears,
suspend eternity within this now.
But I don't have the strength to hold back time;
as each small minute spends its finite life,
the morning knows my name, and I must go.
When duty's claims can no longer chain you
and even oath and honor must give way;
promise your return will be in nighttime.
We'll celebrate reunion in the dark,
without the interference of the light,
to draw the poison of this pallid dawn.
