West With The Sun

Song Description

Rootsy-sounding, staying-up-all-night-pacing song with acoustic and slide guidar, fretless bass, non-traditional percussion. Lyrics address wasted time, the road not taken, loss of mother, not following in mother's footsteps by denying your dream.

Song Length 3:09 Genre Rock - General
Tempo Medium (111 - 130) Lead Vocal Female Vocal
Mood Restless, Poignant Subject Cats, Kittens, Robots
Similar Artists Fleetwood Mac, Melissa Etheridge Language English
Era 2000 and later

Lyrics

in the early quiet hours
as the darkness holds its breath
morning makes an entrance
on a stage as still as death
and the stars are like excuses
as they leave me one by one
and I find myself facing
west with the sun


I guess I thought I'd have forever
to invent this life of mine
but every path I've taken
left another one behind
so I have been uncertain
and I left too much undone
I know that I have to go
west with the sun

'cause that clock
keeps ticking
even as I turn to run
darkness
right behind me moving west with the sun

my mama never told me
but I realized when she died
night falls like a curtain
on a dream too long denied
and now I have to listen
to the echo of her pain
and make up words we never sang
to a happier refrain

but I won't go down her road
I know I'm burning daylight
and I will not close my eyes
I am aching
straining
toward the fading light

and that clock
keeps ticking
even as I turn to run
darkness
right behind me
moving west with the sun
west with the sun

Lyrics Leslie Claussen and Bruce Larsen Music Leslie Claussen
Producer Lee Shartzer Publisher Canto Veritas Music
Performance Leslie Claussen Label Canto Veritas

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