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The Spark That Lights the Fire

from As Sure As the Sun Rises in the East by Tim Lane

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THE SPARK THAT LIGHTS THE FIRE

I will make for you a love song stronger than the tide
As wide as the horizon, as big as Norfolk skies
I’ll forge it out of laughter, Out of promises and pain
And sorrows all overcome and joy brought home again
I’ll paint it on the reed beds and the tall cathedral spire
I’ll shout it up to heaven and set the moon on fire
I’ll spin it out of stories whispered in the night
And silvered strands of memory tied up with autumn light

CHORUS
You are the spark that lights the fire
You are the spring which feeds the sea
You are the lightning bolt which shocks the heart to life
You are the thought which makes the dream

I’ll play it on the skyline as the sun begins to rise
In crimson and in diamonds eating up the sky.
And as the sun is setting on the thirteen city parks
Throwing dying shards of sunlight out into the dark
I’ll build out of cobwebs hung with morning dew
And sunlight in April mist fighting to break through
I’ll write it out in laughter lines, in breath and blood and bone
In ebony and in firelight, in water and in stone

CHORUS

I’ll dance it round the ruins, the churchyards and the lanes
The village greens and castles and the council house estates
I’ll sing it in the market towns and through the city streets
On the piers and promenades across the cold North Sea
I’ll weave it out of hailstorms, out of snow and summer rain
And supercells and flash floods and Squalls and hurricanes
And thunderheads and lightning and the wind upon the wheat
Will take it up and spin it round and lay it at your feet
Everything I’ve ever known and all I’ve ever been
All I’ve ever loved or lost, All I’ve ever seen
Everything that makes me, all I think and feel and do
I’ll put them in the love song that I will make for you

CHORUS

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from As Sure As the Sun Rises in the East, released January 5, 2021
Strings by The Peoples Republic of Lakenham State String Quartet

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