Jackson Browne - Sky Blue & Black lyrics

In the calling out to one another<br>Of the lovers up and down the strand<br>In the sound of the waves and the cries<br>Of the seagulls circling the sand<br>In the fragments of the songs<br>Carried down the wind from some radio<br>In the murmuring of the city in the distance<br>Ominous and low<br><br>I hear the sound of the world where we played<br>And the far too simple beauty<br>Of the promises we made<br><br>If you ever need holding<br>Call my name, I'll be there<br>If you ever need holding<br>And no holding back, I'll see you through<br>Sky blue and black<br><br>Where the touch of the lover ends<br>And the soul of the friend begins<br>There's a need to be separate and a need to be one<br>And a struggle neither wins<br>Where you gave me the world I was in<br>And a place I could make a stand<br>I could never see how you doubted me<br>When I'd let go of your hand<br><br>Yeah, and I was much younger then<br>And I must have thought that I would know<br>If things were going to end<br><br>And the heavens were rolling<br>Like a wheel on a track<br>And our sky was unfolding<br>And it'll never fold back<br>Sky blue and black<br><br>And I'd have fought the world for you<br>If I thought that you wanted me to<br>Or put aside what was true or untrue<br>If I'd known that's what you needed<br>What you needed me to do<br><br>But the moment has passed by me now<br>To have put away my pride<br>And just come through for you somehow<br><br>If you ever need holding<br>Call my name, I'll be there<br>If you ever need holding<br>And no holding back, I'll see you through<br><br>You're the color of the sky<br>Reflected in each store-front window pane<br>You're the whispering and the sighing<br>Of my tires in the rain<br>You're the hidden cost and the thing that's lost<br>In everything I do<br>Yeah and I'll never stop looking for you<br>In the sunlight and the shadows<br>And the faces on the avenue<br>That's the way love is<br>That's the way love is<br>That's the way love is<br>Sky blue and black