Springtime

And then springtime was arriving and the clouds were white instead of gray Snow ran down into the gutters and the crocuses woke up to start the day And I couldn't help but smile even as my eyes were growing wet Turn my face to the horizon trying to slow the beating in my chest So give me blue skies in a bottle and give me sunshine in a pill Gimme smiles, gimme laughter in a jar I can keep on my window sill Cause when the world starts getting colder, I'll feel a decade older you know I will So give me blue skies in a bottle and give me sunshine in a pill Was it what my parents taught me? Was it just how I was born? Cause I'm always counting all the lines around my eyes against the things I haven't done And every pebble on the sidewalk, every blade of grass that tickled my bare toes Is gone, is always gone away to someplace I can't go So give me blue skies in a bottle and give me sunshine in a pill Gimme smiles, gimme laughter in a jar I can keep on my window sill Cause when the world starts getting colder, I'll feel a decade older you know I will So give me blue skies in a bottle and give me sunshine in a pill