To Try for the Sun

We stood in the windy city

The gypsy boy and I

We slept on the breeze in the midnight

With the rain dropping tears in our eyes

And who's going to be the one

To say it was no good what we done?

I dare a man to say I'm too young

For I'm going to try for the sun

We huddled in the derelict building

And when he thought I was asleep

He laid his poor coat 'round my shoulder

And shivered there beside me in a heap

And who's going to be the one

To say it was no good what we done?

I dare a man to say I'm too young

For I'm going to try for the sun

We sang and cracked the sky with laughter

Our breath turned to mist in the cold

Our years put together count to thirty

But our eyes told the dawn that we were old

And who's going to be the one

To say it was no good what we done?

I dare a man to say I'm too young

For I'm going to try for the sun

Mirror, mirror hanging in the sky

Won't you look down what's happening here below?

I stand here singing to the flowers

So very few people really know

And who's going to be the one

To say it was no good what we done?

I dare a man to say I'm too young

For I'm going to try for the sun

We stood in the windy city

The gypsy boy and I

We slept on the breeze in the midnight

With the rain dropping tears in our eyes

And who's going to be the one

To say it was no good what we done?

I dare a man to say I'm too young

For I'm going to try for the sun