Emmylou Harris - Just Before It Gets Dark lyrics

From: Taken Music From The Critical [Compilation] [Soundtrack] 2003

Just before it gets dark

When the light still hangs in the sky

The day's not quite gone

All its promises still in your eyes

Between the time your mother calls

And the time you put the ball away

There's a lifetime to be lived

And a world where every dream is here to stay

Just before the night comes

And you run back to the safety of your world

Just before it gets dark

You can believe in every story ever told

In those last precious moments

There's a beauty no one wants to give away

Well nothing lasts forever

But those moments keep forever far away

Just before it gets dark

Before you grow, before you're too old to pretend

Just before it gets dark

And you know your dreams will not come back again

Hold on

Hold on tight

And I promise you baby

It'll all be alright

I promise you baby

It'll all be alright