You Rise And Meet The Day Lyrics - My Better Self - Dar Williams

We could pretend that we're walking on 

Petals and light, golden light 

Flaunting our love like a dance step mastered 

Turning from left to right 

But after all the colored lights are gone 

Time will leave the ashes and the dawn 

You rise and meet the day 

I'm watching you go, it's like spying on hope 

Ever onward with more to burn 

Giving your hands and your heart 

To the weave of the world, though it fights each turn 

But you do not give up so easily 

That's how I know you won't surrender me 

You rise and meet the day 

It's all I need, it's all I need to know, it's all I need to know 

And I love you all the time 

I had always feared that some 

Gloomy ingratitude would seize me 

But you have held the dream like every morning finds 

A way to hang the sun up in the sky 

And now I think I have it too 

The greatest part I learned from you 

You rise and meet the day 

And I can see kids, maybe yours, maybe not 

Oh, I can hear what they'll say 

Laughing at pictures with the old-fashioned hats 

And the clothes that we're wearing today 

And they will know the true and humble power 

Of love that made it through the darkest hour 

You rise and meet the day 

It's all I need, it's all I need to know, it's all I need to know