GRAYSON HUGH

Lyrics

CITY DAWN
words & music by Grayson Hugh

Under the bridge in the city dawn
I don't even need my Spring jacket on
smell the gasoline in the breeze
there's a mist still sleeping down by the river trees

Couldn't go on the way we were
things couldn't have gotten much crazier that life wasn't what we deserve
'cause the air by the sea is too real
for our eyes to be unsure

Standing out on the hot highway
I'm waiting for a ride to go my way
thinking of you in those country hills
where the April nights still give you chills

Like tumbleweed the cars roll by
driving past me to the edge of the sky
in the grass by the road some flowers sigh all the miles of this road they are nothing when I think of you and I

In the new city dawn
summer days coming on
daylight fog in the air like a tear
sidewalk yards, pigeon feet
Spanish sound in the heat
life begins with each new day
now it's here

Fast
we drove along the backroads
by the yards so green
the sunlight in the lateness of the afternoon was hanging in the trees
the dreaming of the summer was inside us
and our breath was in the breeze

Glad
we were to jump off Friday
and to see the sea
as we talked and laughed and sipped our beer the moments in us turned to haze
as we watched each other
all our thrills and wishes grew within our gaze both of us were happy
just to know this happiness would last two days

You and only you
can move me like you do
I've been a fool for you
I wanted to

That part of us is through
let's begin again anew
I can't stay away from you
you know it's true

Let's go find some tim
you'll have yours and I'll mine
we'll walk up to the thin tree line
where the sun makes the little rocks shine

It's where your eyes have been
that thrills me so
and the way the wind is in them
and what they know
my eyes fly forever with them
to my soul

Under the bridge in the city dawn
I don't even need my Spring jacket on
smell the gasoline in the breeze
there's a mist still sleeping down by the river trees

Couldn't go on the way we were
things couldn't have gotten much crazier
that life wasn't what we deserve
'cause the air by the sea is too real
for our eyes to be unsure

In the new city dawn
summer days coming on
daylight fog in the air like a tear
sidewalk yards, pigeon feet
Spanish sound in the heat
life begins with each new day
now it's here

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