For a Dancer

© Swallow Turn Music (ASCAP)
 Keep the fire burning in your eyes
 Pay attention to the open sky
 You never know what will be coming down
 I don't remember losing track of you
 You're always dancing in and out of view
 I must have thought you would always be around
 Always keeping things real by playing the clown
 Now you're nowhere to be found
 I don't know what happens when people die
 Can't seem to grasp it as hard as I try
 It's like a song I hear playing right in my ear
 But I can't sing, I can't help listening
 I can't help feeling stupid standing around
 Crying is the easier down
 Cause I know that you would rather we'd be dancing
 Dancing our sorrow away
 No matter what fate throws in your way
 Just do the steps that you've been shown
 By everyone you've ever known
 Until the dance becomes your very own
 No matter how close to yours
 Another's steps have grown
 In the end there is one dance you'll do alone
 Keep a fire for the human race
 Let your prayers go drifting into space
 You never know what will be coming down
 Perhaps a better world is drawing near
 Just as easy it could all disappear
 Along with whatever meaning you might have found
 Don't let the uncertainty turn you around
 Go on and make a joyful sound
 Into a dancer you have grown
 From a seed somebody else has thrown
 Go on ahead and throw some seeds of your own
 And somewhere between the time you arrive
 And the time you go
 May lie a reason you were alive
 But you'll never know