Little Lights

As I sit on this flight, in the storm of my life, I look down on the earth far below
At the millions of lights, shining up through the night, towns and people I’ll never know.
We go rushing around, we tear through our brief days, we all want something permanent,
Something that stays
And says we mattered, while we were here
Don’t just disappear.

CHORUS
Little Lights, little lights
Little lights in the night.

Now deep within beats a heart not my own, ‘though it feeds on my body, my blood and my bones
Will it swallow the dream I’ve chased all these years?
Will I disappear?
Well I threw out my plans, I’ve tried to make do, everyone is so happy, I should be, too.
But I feel so lost here, no refuge I find, in the march of time
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Who will you be? Will you look like me?
Smile like my lover, or some long-gone other I never knew…
But their blood was my passenger, I gave to you.
Shining through from the past, to tomorrows I’ll never see, like a star in the sky.
A witness to me.
One speck of dust, in the span of the years
Nothing disappears.
CHORUS