Shine Bright Tonight
another night I run to you
only for a kiss
and within a whisk,
you're off
into the land you want to be in
I have come home
to see you leave
and then I'm left
here daydreaming
when you say you'll come back
but you never do
until my eyes
have already turned blue
until I can no longer want to think
you'll be back in time
for you to see
the light on my face
when you make me smile
someone has been gone
for quite a while
and you tell me to wait
and wait I do
until I can no longer want
to wait for you
oh, if I could stay out
I'd dream all day
of things I want to do
but work keeps me this way
and you can dream all you want
because I've given that to you
but now I want my turn
yet I'm still turning blue
I keep hearing you say
great things are coming now
but all I see
is my bank empty
and me, working
struggling to buy shoes
when you
shine with all your gold
you buy for yourself
as I resist from buying pants
I might want but don't need
you shine some more
and I become lonely.
Oh shine bright tonight,
wherever you are
I've begun to not care
how you'll be a star
because I need to let myself go too
and all I see are diamonds
shining bright on you.
maybe if I could do what you do
I'd shine like a star
I'd shine just like you.
Copyright © Amy Kramer | Year Posted 2013
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