Light You Leave Behind

You got the wind knocked right out of you

When you lost the first one that meant the world to you

And you were too young to figure it out, too old to break down

When the first weight was laid upon your back

But a sliver of starlight, it lived in your dark eyes

Brighter the darker the night

And you rolled all the windows down

You flew through the Jersey town

Your dark hair was blowing all around

Doing 80 on 80 to Roosevelt Stadium

Nosebleeds, kick drums, heartbeats, anthems

Of your stolen, golden youth, of your lonely, lonely truth

But the light you leave behind

It's burning across the sky

And your father never knew you as a father

But he left you the burden of a body and some dark, dark eyes

And you were too young to bear it

Too old for hysterics

So you climbed out the window down to a rock 'n' roll show

Doing 80 on 80 to Roosevelt Stadium

Nosebleeds, kick drums, heartbeats, anthems

Of your stolen, golden youth, of your lonely, lonely truth

But the light you leave behind

It's burning across the sky

And that arena was torn down the year I was born

How you bulldozed all those wild ways you could

But you still rolled the windows down

You still threw the bases 'round

Your dark hair blowing all around

And a sliver of starlight, it lived in your dark eyes

Now it lives in the night sky, and I'll be looking

I'll be looking for

The light you leave behind

All the light you leave behind

The light you leave behind

Burning across the sky

Burned into my eyes

Burned into my mind

The light you leave behind

The light you leave behind

The light you leave behind

The light you leave behind