My son will not be here for this Thanksgiving
Nor will he be with me on Christmas Eve
Christmas day he’ll be miles away
Guess I need to concede
All those years the two of us against the world
Somehow I didn’t quite believe
That life would change
And would feel so strange to me
Snow falls all around
The ground is white again
And just for a moment
All is right again
Until the light gives way to night again
I’m alone and on my own again
My mother, she has lived to see such losses
So many of her friends have passed away
She won’t let it show, she won’t let you know
How her heart still breaks today
Every person I pass on the street today
Has a story laden as my own
I pass by and see in their eye
Hearts longing to go home
Snow falls all around
The ground is white again
And just for a moment
All is right again
Until the light gives way to night again
I’m alone and on my own again
A million tiny windows in the city
A human there behind each single frame
So many souls all growing old
Wonder if somehow we feel the same
Snow falls all around
The ground is white again
And just for a moment
All is right again
Until the light gives way to night again
We're alone and on our own again
We share the loss
Of things we once knew
But the white of the snow
Brings hope to me - and you
Clinging to the rock while I feel the sea
Pulling it all away from me
Just a minute before
I was standing on the shore
Looking at a new horizon
I’m still holding out hope
That the sun will shine
Bring a little light to this dream of mine
I can make it through the dark
If I know that the sun will keep rising
I’d thought we were on our way
Things were looking good
Equality, enlightenment
I thought we all understood
The value of humanity
And our precious mother earth
We were on the path it seemed
A new road to rebirth (Now I’m)
Clinging to the rock while I feel the sea
Pulling it all away from me
Just a minute before
I was standing on the shore
Looking at a new horizon
I’m still holding out hope
that the sun will shine
Bring a little light to this dream of mine
I can make it through the dark
If I know that the sun will keep rising
How will change get underway
If they don’t believe their eyes?
Choosing only what they want to see
And choosing only lies
All this needless provocation
For so many this is hell
I’m afraid we’ve gone too far this time, but only Time will tell (and I’m)
Clinging to the rock while I feel the sea
Pulling it all away from me
Just a minute before
I was standing on the shore
Looking at a new horizon
I’m still holding out hope
That the sun will shine
Bring a little light to this dream of mine
I can make it through the dark
If I know that the sun will keep rising
How is it that hate still grows
Are we not beyond that now?
We teach our children how to care and love
And yet still somehow, we’re
We're clinging to the rock
While we feel the sea
Taking away what’s right and free
Just a minute before
We were standing on the shore
Looking at a new horizon
We’re still holding out hope
Standing in the rain
Waiting to see the light again
We can make it through the dark
If we know that the sun will keep rising
Clinging to the rock while I feel the sea
Pulling it all away from me
Just a minute before
I was standing on the shore
Looking at a new horizon
I’m still holding out hope
That the sun will shine
Bring a little light to this dream of mine
I can make it through the dark
If I know that the sun will keep rising