Jackson Browne - For a Dancer текст песни

Keep a fire burning in your eye

Pay attention to the open sky

You never know what will be coming down

I dont remember losing track of you

You were always dancing in and out of view

I must have thought youd always be around

Always keeping things real by playing the clown

Now youre nowhere to be found

I dont know what happens when people die

Cant seem to grasp it as hard as I try

Its like a song I can hear playing right in my ear

That I cant sing

I cant help listening

And I cant help feeling stupid standing round

Crying as they ease you down

cause I know that youd rather we were dancing

Dancing our sorrow away

(right on dancing)

No matter what fate chooses to play

(theres nothing you can do about it anyway)

Just do the steps that youve been shown

By everyone youve ever known

Until the dance becomes your very own

No matter how close to yours

Anothers steps have grown

In the end there is one dance youll do alone

Keep a fire for the human race

Let your prayers go drifting into space

You never know what will be coming down

Perhaps a better world is drawing near

And just as easily it could all disappear

Along with whatever meaning you might have found

Dont let the uncertainty turn you around

(the world keeps turning around and around)

Go on and make a joyful sound

Into a dancer you have grown

From a seed somebody else has thrown

Go on ahead and throw 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 youll never know