Staying Home Tonight

© 2007 Naomi Rivkis


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C F C
A long the purple ridges I  see my daughter  climb
C Dm C
  Hand in hand with  Timothy and they'll be gone for  hours.
C F C
  Love is rising with the spring,  does it all the  time;
C F Dm G C
  They go now where  once I went,  searching  for the  flowers.
C Dm F C
  Lavender and  gold they glow,  hiding in the  shade,
C Dm G
  Tip them up and drink the sweetest  juice God ever  made.
C Dm F G
  Share them for the  memories and  for the luck they  bring:
C Dm F G C
  Flahmen lurk where  lovers go,  rising  with the  spring.
C F C
A long the purple ridges, I  watch their slow desc ent,
C Dm C
  Holding empty  baskets, faces scared and  drawn.
C F C
  Hand in hand for comfort now,  troubled and int ent:
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  Ask "What can be  happening with  all the  flahmen  gone?"
C Dm F C
  Lavender and  gold the sky,  scarlet sunset  threads,
C Dm C
  Half the world is dying when the  flahmen all are  dead.
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  Soon will fall the other half;  we work while we  may,
C Dm F G C
  Building the mach ineries to  take ours elves a way.

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A long the purple ridges, my  daughter walks al one,
C Dm C
  All her blooming  prospects for love are turning  gray.
C F C
  She'll ship with our family and  Timmy with his  own.
C F D C
  Will they ever  find each other,  endless stars a way?
C Dm F C
  Lavender and  gold the light that  nearly leaves me  blind:
C Dm C
  Hear the Presence call to me to  leave this life beh ind!
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  Woven joy and sorrow as I  sort out last aff airs
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  And my smile greets my  daughter's heavy  tread up on the  stairs.
C F C
A long the purple ridges, I  watch the ships dep art,
C Dm C
  Timmy with my  daughter in the space I didn't  use.
C F C
  No one knows the future but they'll  have a chance to  start,
C F D G C
  And I am left  alone upon a  world I  needn't  lose.
C Dm F C
  Lavender and  gold the sun,  brighter every  day,
C Dm C
  My world and I are dying but my  people are a way.
C F C
  In joy we die together, our  faces toward the  light:
C Dm F G C
  An aging world and  woman who are  staying  home to night.