Day Breaks

Soft rays of sunlight
Gently chase the whippoorwill
From my windowsill
Sweeping through the meadow, they move in
Bringing warming light
To kiss the night goodbye

Day breaks, heart aches
Reality sets in again -
What might have been
Dreams slip away
Like the song you were singing
Just yesterday - it lies still today

Once fair as a blossom with dew on its petals
Where has the melody gone?
How do we go on with living and laughing
And loving and facing a new breaking dawn?

Candle burns low
Morning mist is rising now
I don't know how
Sorrow descends
While the spirit rises up again -
It never ends

Once fair as a blossom with dew on its petals
Why has the curtain been drawn?
How do we go on with living and laughing
And loving and facing a new breaking dawn?

Soft rays of sunlight
Gently chase the whippoorwill
From my windowsill