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Artist: Emmylou Harris
Canonical path: /emmylou-harris/just-before-it-gets-dark
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Just Before It Gets Dark
Read Just Before It Gets Dark lyrics by Emmylou Harris on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Just Before It Gets Dark
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Just before it gets dark
When the lights still hangs in the sky
The days not quite gone
All its promises still in your eyes
Between the time your mother calls
And the time you put the ball away
There's a lifetime to be lived
And a world where every dream is here to stay
Just before the night comes
And you run back to the safety of your world
Just before it gets dark
You can believe in every story ever told
In those last precious moments
There's a beauty no one wants to give away
Well, nothing lasts forever
But those moments keep forever far away
Just before it gets dark
Before you grow
Before you're too old to pretend
Just before it gets dark
And you know your dreams will not come back again
Hold on
Hold on tight
And I promise you baby it'll all be alright
I promise you baby it'll all be alright
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Emmylou Harris performs "Just Before It Gets Dark", and this lyric page sits inside the Emmylou Harris catalog on LyroVerse.
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