West With The Sun

West With The Sun (3:09)
(Bruce Larsen & Leslie Claussen) Listen

in the early quiet hours
as the darkness holds its breath
morning makes an entrance
on a stage as still as death
and the stars are like excuses
as they leave me one by one
and I find myself facing
west with the sun

I guess I thought I'd have forever
to invent this life of mine
but every path I've taken
left another one behind
so I have been uncertain
and I left too much undone
I know that I have to go
west with the sun

'cause that clock
keeps ticking
even as I turn to run
darkness
right behind me
moving west with the sun

my mama never told me
but I realized when she died
night falls like a curtain
on a dream too long denied
and now I have to listen
to the echo of her pain
and make up words we never sang
to a happier refrain

but I won't go down her road
I know I'm burning daylight
and I will not close my eyes
I am aching—
straining
toward the fading light

and that clock
keeps ticking
even as I turn to run
darkness
right behind me
moving west with the sun
west with the sun

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