Please Don't Take My Sunshine Away

"you are my sunshine, my only sunshine,

you make me happy when skies are grey.

you'll never know dear, how much i love you,

please don't take my sunshine away"

it was the way you stayed warm

when the cold hit that summer day

on the coast off the shore of the town where we grew up

like the time you turned your back on

your freedom of america

and all the ways you would curse in french slurred foreign tongue

well i miss your rainy days

and your sad grasp on gravity

yeah you'd walk on water if it wasn't for your shoes

and i can't say i haven't thought about it

sailing these seas with our love

storms will sweep us sadly i don't doubt it

but that's okay, 'cause we've got love

and i say "tomorrow is my savior,

from my failure known as yesterday,

yeah i'd pain't those grey skies blue if you'd say the word"

but you, you don't ask much

from me and my broken touch

you say "you're just a silly boy there's nothing you can do"

cast a stone to the water you always drown in

judge the books you never read by their covers

damn the skies you try to reach from the tops of mountains

send the crying kids home for living life right