Autumn Light for Bryan

Words and music by Howard Kranz

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1. In the autumn light, the leaves have such a presence

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that your eye can hold and turn them

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in the living stillness, crisp with cold.

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The light is clear, and pure as nothing;

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see it touch the leaves with flameless fire,

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and the clarity of polished gold!

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Chorus: The autumn light burns my soul into the wood;

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my thoughts go inside the hearts of things,

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and their dying feels like opening.

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And if my friend were here, then he would laugh;

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I can hear just how his laugh would feel,

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and I know just how his breath would sound.

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But he is dead, and we will be that much alone,

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and he will be this much with us:

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he will glow in us like autumn light.

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Chorus : The autumn light burns my soul into the world;

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my thoughts go inside the hearts of things,

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and the dying feels like opening. Repeat Chorus