This lyric is: #404

Title: The Bijou Dream
Author: David Ashman
copyright 2001

There's frost on the window sill
And children running home from school
The snow is falling all around
That's a sure sign that autumn's gone

Downwind from the cannery
The air is filled with sweet cherry jam
And dreams from a worker's mind
Of raising family and buying land

I thank the masons and the carpenters
The townspeople and the good farmers
Who plowed the fields and made the rules
They built a town in which I could grow

(chorus)
Keep your lights on while I'm gone
I'll take the memories along
Though I may travel very far
I only get closer to where you are
When the sun goes down all is well in this fair ported town


I remember climbing up Brook's hill
I raised a flag and called it my own
I laid down to count the stars
Then I wondered about who we are

I never wanted to say goodbye
The friends I had moved on with their lives
Twenty years and I still want more
You're the place I've been searching for

(chorus)
Keep your lights on while I'm gone
I'll take the memories along
Though I may travel very far
I only get closer to where you are
When the sun goes down all is well in this fair ported town

-you can hear a sample of this song at:
www.davidashman.com/lyrics_bijou_dream


[This message has been edited by davidashman (edited 08-29-2002).]

[This message has been edited by blakeh (edited 09-02-2002).]

David Ashman