For A Dancer - Emmylou Harris

(Jackson Browne)

Keep a fire burnin' in your eyes 
Pay attention to the open skies
Yuo never know what will he coming down 
I don t remember losing track of you 
You were always dancing in and out of view
I must have thought you would always he around 
Always keeping things real by playin' the clown 
Now you're nowhere to be found 
I don't know what happens when people die 
Can't seem to grasp it as hard as I try 
It's like a song I can hear playing right in my ear 
But I can't sing, I can't help listening 
I can't help feeling stupid, standing around
Crying is the easier down 
'Cause I know that you would rather we'd be dancing
Dancin' our sorrow away 
No matter what fate throws in your way 
Just do the steps that you've been shown 
By everyone you've ever known 
Until the dance becomes your very own 
No matter how close to yours
Another's steps have grown 
In the end there is one dance you'll do alone 
Keep a fire for the human race 
Let your prayers go drifting into space 
You never know what will he coming down 
Perhaps a better world is drawing near 
Just as easy it could all disappear 
Along with whatever meaning you might have found 
Don't let the uncertainty turn you around 
Go on and I make a joyful sound 
Into a dancer you have grown 
From a seed somebody else has thrown 
Go on ahead and thrown some seeds of your own 
And somewhere between the time you arrive 
And the time you go 
May lie a reason you were alive
But you'll never know