LIGHT YEARS

LIGHT YEARS

 

Ever had the dream where you are falling, falling down

Waking with a sweat in your own dawn, dawn; done, done

But dreaming in my dread, by day I’m running, run run run

Til you stop me in the street, say, Take me home?

 

Home is not a place that we can hold on to

Still I thought I saw it

Nearly caught it

Floaters in your eyes

Could you light the way cause I keep trying to

But seems I’m only at home under unfamiliar skies

 

Don’t know much about the destination

All I know is love is a direction

Time is distance travelled

The further I’m away the longer gone

Is this absence fonder?

Were we written in the stars?

Now watch them fall

 

LIGHT YEARS…

 

Every road leads back to you

Every heart beats back to you

Though we try our best to encompass it

We’re lost

In the dark

Depths of a nomadic heart

I’ll follow it to wherever you be now

 

Don’t know much about the destination

All I know is love is a direction

Time is distance travelled

The further I’m away the longer gone

Is this absence fonder?

Were we written in the stars?

Now watch us fall

 

LIGHT YEARS…

 

Lightning struck us to the ground

And now I’m waiting for the sound

To catch up and come around

So many years of hanging on

How could we know they were long gone

All the stars we wished upon

 

Ever had a dream where you were flying

Now waking in a sweat to find you gone

Tumbling to the earth I seek your traces

In all these city streets, in all these strangers’ faces

 

LIGHT YEARS…

 

Lightning struck us to the ground

And now I’m waiting for the sound

To catch up and come around

So many years of hanging on

How could we know they were long gone

All the stars we wished upon.

 

(Words by Tanuja Desai Hidier. Music by Tanuja, ATOM FELLOWS, Marie Tueje, Thomas Denman.)