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 your laugh

Picking berries off the vine

This one’s yours and this one’s mine

Remember in the wintertime

It looked like they were dying

As the moon starts to rise up tonight

We look up at the flashing lights

Waves 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 dancer

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

Waves as they fly away across the sky

Wonder who is up there in the planes

Last night I came into your room

I 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

But 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