Autumn Leaves Revisited

Album: A City By The Light Divided (2006)
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  • The leaves will fall
    And so will you
    When you do, bury me under them too
    Seconds pass, we'll make it through
    Eventually we all go home
    It won't be long
    It won't be long

    We walk along the wire tied between horizons
    You close your eyes like it's nothing at all
    Throughout the rise and fall, everything, everything
    Changes, I will be here when you die

    It won't be long
    It won't be long
    Until we find our way home

    Did you hear the trumpets play the day your father died?
    Did a violin swell those circles under your eyes?
    Did you play the part straight, like a marcher?
    Get lost in the beat, thinking and feeling
    Did the drums in the streets make the people dance?
    Or fall to their knees as the sound?
    Knock the leaves from the trees
    As they fall from the branch, the look beautiful
    As they hung in the air

    Spinning around
    Did you float in the air?
    Spinning around

    There must be somewhere that cigarettes burn through the night
    And the leaves don't abandon their trees to the light
    Where the skies always clear
    And the summer never ends

    Won't you take me there?

    The leaves will fall
    So will you
    When you do, bury me
    Under them too
    Seconds pass; we'll make it through

    Eventually we all are going home Writer/s: ANDREW EVERDING, GEOFFREY RICKLY, III, ROBERT KEELEY, STEVEN PEDULLA, THOMAS RULE, TIMOTHY PAYNE
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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