Staying Home Tonight

© 2007 Naomi Rivkis

Lyrics [pdf]

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A	long the purple ridges I	see my daughter	climb

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	Hand in hand with	Timothy and they'll be gone for	hours.

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	Love is rising with the spring,	does it all the	time;

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	They go now where	once I went,	searching	for the	flowers.

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Lavender and gold they glow, hiding in the shade,

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Tip them up and drink the sweetest juice God ever made.

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Share them for the memories and for the luck they bring:

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Flahmen lurk where lovers go, rising with the spring.

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A	long the purple ridges, I	watch their slow desc	ent,

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	Holding empty	baskets, faces scared and	drawn.

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	Hand in hand for comfort now,	troubled and int	ent:

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	Ask "What can be	happening with	all the	flahmen	gone?"

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Lavender and gold the sky, scarlet sunset threads,

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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,

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Building the mach ineries to take ours elves a way.

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A	long the purple ridges, my	daughter walks al	one,

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	All her blooming	prospects for love are turning	gray.

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	She'll ship with our family and	Timmy with his	own.

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	Will they ever	find each other,	endless stars a	way?

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Lavender and gold the light that nearly leaves me blind:

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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.

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A	long the purple ridges, I	watch the ships dep	art,

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	Timmy with my	daughter in the space I didn't	use.

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	No one knows the future but they'll	have a chance to	start,

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	And I am left	alone upon a	world I	needn't	lose.

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Lavender and gold the sun, brighter every day,

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My world and I are dying but my people are a way.

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In joy we die together, our faces toward the light:

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An aging world and woman who are staying home to night.