Between the Sun and the Moon

I’ve always thought that if you had someone or something that you knew would last for absolutely ever the importance of that thing would soon fade. I believe God plans to gives us things for a short time in order for us to learn something from them and to perceive a stronger emotion from the experience. This may sound morbid, but knowing that someone you care about may soon be leaving whether it is to another country or to heaven makes you cherish every moment you have with them. This is another song freshly written tonight (please forgive me if it’s terrible, I can only tell after a certain amount of time) the song is about two people, one of them has to leave and one of them has to stay, there is only a matter of time in which they can spend together. The romantic facade that the moon and sunset posses soon fades as the two people know that with each one passing they have less time together...

Verse 1
And with the setting of the Sun
There goes another day
Another hour in which I am with you
You were so hard won
Darling won’t you stay
Tell me now before the peaking of the moon

Build
How long will it be
Before you’re just a memory
There I go counting down the days

Chorus
There goes my everything
Sinking with the Sun
Ambling all alone
With a worn out heart that proves
That you weren’t made of stone
Though often I thought so,
Now I feel you slipping away
Between the Sun and the Moon

Verse 2
I know God heard my prayers
But just because He hears
It doesn’t mean they all will come true
Don’t remember me like this
Where my tear replaces the kiss
That I hoped would be from you

Build
Don’t stop me from crying
At the time of goodbye
We both knew it would turn out this way

Chorus
There goes my everything
Sinking with the Sun
Ambling all alone
With a worn out heart that proves
That the love you had was real
Though your silence was of steel
I feel you slipping away
Between the Sun and the Moon

Mid 8
Just a matter of days
And a handful of nights
And a lifetime of you
Present in my mind

Chorus
There goes my everything
Sinking with the Sun
Ambling all alone
With a worn out heart that proves
That somewhere in your mind
It’s me that you may find,
Though I feel you slipping away
Between the Sun and the Moon

Karl Smitherman © 2012 published 2012