| Along the purple ridges I see my daughter climb |
| Hand in hand with Timothy and they'll be gone for hours. |
| Love is rising with the spring, does it all the time; |
| They go now where once I went, searching for the flowers. |
| Lavender and gold they glow, hiding in the shade, |
| Tip them up and drink the sweetest juice God ever made. |
| Share them for the memories and for the luck they bring: |
| Flahmen lurk where lovers go, rising with the spring. |
| Along the purple ridges, I watch their slow descent, |
| Holding empty baskets, faces scared and drawn. |
| Hand in hand for comfort now, troubled and intent: |
| Ask "What can be happening with all the flahmen gone?" |
| Lavender and gold the sky, scarlet sunset threads, |
| Half the world is dying when the flahmen all are dead. |
| Soon will fall the other half; we work while we may, |
| Building the machineries to take ourselves away. |
| Along the purple ridges, my daughter walks alone, |
| All her blooming prospects for love are turning gray. |
| She'll ship with our family and Timmy with his own. |
| Will they ever find each other, endless stars away? |
| Lavender and gold the light that nearly leaves me blind: |
| Hear the Presence call to me to leave this life behind! |
| Woven joy and sorrow as I sort out last affairs |
| And my smile greets my daughter's heavy tread upon the stairs. |
| Along the purple ridges, I watch the ships depart, |
| Timmy with my daughter in the space I didn't use. |
| No one knows the future but they'll have a chance to start, |
| And I am left alone upon a world I needn't lose. |
| Lavender and gold the sun, brighter every day, |
| My world and I are dying but my people are away. |
| In joy we die together, our faces toward the light: |
| An aging world and woman who are staying home tonight. |
| Odd stanzas: |
| D D G D |
| D D Em A |
| D D G A |
| D G Em-A D |
| Even stanzas: |
| D Em G D |
| D D Em A |
| D Em G A |
| D Em G-A D |
http://lookingglassfolk.com/Songs/staying-home-tonight/
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