As the Moon Starts to Rise

I could hear you laughing

When the pigeons got your napkin

You were barefoot in the blades of grass

I swear I can still hear you laugh

Picking berries off the vine

This one’s yours this one’s mine

Remember in the winter time

It looked like they were dying

As the moon starts to rise up tonight

We’ll look up at the flashing lights

Wave as they fly away across the sky

Wonder who is up there in the planes

Looking through the telescope

Asking questions no one knows

I make up the answers

You said the stars were tiny dancers

You look so much bigger now

Time goes by so fast somehow

Another summer’s come and gone

Soon the days won’t last so long

As the moon starts to rise up tonight

We look up at the flashing lights

Wave as they fly away across the sky

Wonder who is up there in the planes

Last night I came into your room

Told you I’d be leaving soon

You were almost sleeping

I could hear your heart beating

I sang you a lullaby

You asked me where I was going this time

Cleveland and the Finger Lakes

Back down toward the Chesapeake

As the moon starts to rise up tonight

Try to find all the flashing lights

Wave at the sky as I fly away

I’ll be waving back down from the plane