The Reason

There’s a sunbeam tickling

Your bare skin as you sleep

I lay silent hardly breathing

I don’t want you to wake up

No, not yet

I don’t think I’m ready

To face the day without you around

Sure we’ll send messages but there’s a certain warmth

That does not travel by telephone lines

Don’t wake up, drift a bit longer in the realm of dreams

And don’t you fret, I am here to guard them and do

The worrying for two anyway

So much to worry about with each and every day

The great barrier reef died, a bombing again, letters from the tax office arrived today

And you came late at night and you were not picking up my calls

And I knew you’d drive without your glasses on

I’d never really prayed but I did when my best friend was in the hospital

He’s gone now so I guess there is no use in talking to the heavens above about us, is there?

Yet sometimes I do

I can’t afford to lose you

Somehow this terror is so brand new

This is no prison, it’s a vast, a wide open sky

Love is the reason we live and die

This is no prison, it’s a vast, a wide open sky

Love is the reason we live and die

This is no prison, it’s a vast, a wide open sky

Love is the reason we live and die