Look at the Light

for Lissa

words and music ©1978 by Howard Kranz

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1. I once loved a photographer; I’d watch her in the dark.

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She printed while I talked, and then we’d go down to the park

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at an hour not quite dusk that was her favorite time of day.

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She’d point across the open field, and she would say,

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“Look at the light! Look at the light!”

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2. Now me, I was a scholar, and I also liked to sing,

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and I used my eyes for reading with, and to help me change my strings.

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And I knew who Leonardo was, and what a prism is for,

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and I looked across a field I’d never seen before.

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“Look at the light! Look at the light!”

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3. Well Liss and I aren’t lovers now, but we love each other, sure.

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And that kind of light and that time of day, they still belong to her.

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Cause love is something in the eyes, as vision’s in the heart.

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If you haven’t learned to look at light, you’d better start.

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“Look at the light! Look at the light!”