Just A Little Light

(idea) by NothingLasts4ever (7.9 mon) (print) ? I like it! Wed Jul 25 2001 at 10:04:35

Just A Little Light
Lyrics: John Perry Barlow
Music: Brent Mydland

recorded on Built To Last (studio 1989) & Dozin' At The Knick (live 26 Mar 1990)
First performance: Februay 7, 1989, at the Henry J. Kaiser Auditorium in Oakland, California.

Reprinted with permissions copyright Ice Nine Publishing

Well there ain't nobody safer than someone who doesn't care

And it isn't even lonely when no-one's ever there

I had a lot of dreams once, but some of them came true

The honey's sometimes bitter when fortune falls on you

So you know I've been a soldier in the armies of the night

And I'll find the fatal error in what's otherwise all right

But now you're trembling like a sparrow, I will try with all my might

To give you just a little sweetness

Just a little light

I have always heard that virtue ought to be its own reward

But it never comes so easy when you're living by the sword

It's even harder to be heartless when you look at me that way

You're as might as the flower that will grow the stones away

Even though I've been a stranger full of irony and spite

Holding little but contempt for all things beautiful and bright

Something shines around you and it seems, to my delight

To give me just a little sweetness

Just a little light

It could be just another highway coiled up in the night

You could be just another white-tail, baby, stranded on my brights

There's a tingling recognition like the sound of distant thunder

And I begin to wonder if the love I've driven under won't ignite

Grateful Dead lyrics	John Perry Barlow	Canberra bushfires, January 2003	Built to Last
On the Deaths of Thomas Carlyle and George Eliot	UK Number One singles of 1996	Io	Oakland, Pennsylvania
The Armies of the Night	Brent Mydland	Remain in Light	UK Number One singles of 2002

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