Chris De Burgh - Shine On lyrics

I was looking at a photograph

Taken in a garden long before the war

And out on the lawn

There were old men and dogs and little children

All of them gone forever

There were people by the waterside

Standing in the same place where I am today

Nothing has changed, but you know

That time is moving like a river

It can only be love forever

We shine on, brighter than the sun

Live for every moment, before the moment's gone

We shine on, you and me tonight

Way across the universe

Burning like a fire in the night

There are those who can never cross

The space between a father and a son

When they are young

We must say all the words that should be spoken

Before they are lost forever

And I was looking at a photograph

Taken from a window way above the world

We've got to learn

We must leave here a garden for our children

When we are gone forever

We shine on, brighter than the sun

Live for every moment, before the moment's gone

We shine on, you and me tonight

Way across the universe

Burning like a fire in the night

(Shine on)

Leave here a garden for the children

Leave here a new world

Burning like a fire in the night