Stand Up - Ferron

There's love in the corners and love down the straight highway

There's danger in the outskirts of town and in what you don't say

You're either sinking or thinking the dark's your romance

Or a special one's shining a light on a chance

That it's all very worthy to ache In the middle of the night.

Sometimes I can't sleep I can't keep all these feelings at bay
I am rage, I am sorrow and grief all alone in my way
I know humor and heartbreak and people are life
If I keep my eyes closed I'll be open to strife
Because the powers that be send their love In the middle of the night.

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I'm gonna stand up and let myself be counted for

Stand up now

I've got my one life and what's it to amount to

If I don't learn how

To love you and love myself beside you

Mix the gentle and proud

I want to love life,

The vision in the window told me

Stand up.

To my mother my father my witnesses live in my jagged heart
That for years has been running like fire as though that was its part
From lover to cover and ocean to sky From desert to mountain and promise to lie
I can say that I've prayed to forgiveness In the middle of the night.

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Now I can see love in the woman and love in the man in myself
I see how most people just ache to be good at expressing themselves
And I wish I could tell you just right what I mean
About the light shining down, if I'd only come clean
But for now I live with myself
In the middle of the night.

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