Your Fight Will Not Be Long-The Wooden Sky

[ti:Your Fight Will Not Be Long] [ar:The Wooden Sky] [al:Every Child A Daughter, Every Moon A Sun] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Your Fight Will Not Be Long - The Wooden Sky [00:00.65]When the doctor came to see us [00:03.54] [00:04.35]Said your fight would not be long [00:06.91] [00:08.31]And though it pains me so to say it [00:11.11] [00:12.47]Seldom that I'm wrong [00:14.79] [00:15.93]See my name and my position [00:19.66]They hang proudly on my wall [00:22.95] [00:24.06]And I hated him for being here [00:28.28]Just wished that he would go [00:30.61] [00:31.55]I just sat there unaffected [00:35.52]You know I'd been brought up right [00:38.34] [00:39.48]And I stayed that way for three whole weeks [00:43.78]They came for you one night [00:46.04] [00:47.14]And in the darkness of November [00:50.52] [00:51.20]Although I could hardly see [00:53.95] [00:55.06]Well I swear I saw Saint Peter [00:58.01] [00:59.49]Offer you relief [01:01.84] [01:03.05]You just went to him in silence [01:06.54] [01:07.10]Those doctors had been wrong [01:09.70] [01:10.88]Yes time had left some marks on you [01:14.49] [01:15.29]Tonight all that was done [01:17.61] [01:18.62]And as you moved towards the doorway [01:22.38]Oh I begged you not to leave [01:25.48] [01:26.60]But your tired lips said nothing [01:29.34] [01:30.78]And your eyes shone with relief [01:33.04] [01:34.38]And all at once it came to me [01:38.56]And I fell down on my knees [01:41.75] [01:42.27]You see every man must build a life [01:45.78] [01:46.53]And someday watch it leave