Center of the Circle - Laura Burns, Roger Rosen

Sister, your eyes fly like startled sparrows,

Beating their wings against the air

Black and wild, pained and frightened

They won't come to rest anywhere

Tell me now how your life making music
Has become a cold lonely place
You work all alone, and at each corner turn
You're meeting yourself face to face

You tell of doubts and lost golden chances
And plans that melt in the sun
You're wondering how you can keep to your purpose
You don't know if you can go on

Imagine yourself in the center of a circle
Of loving friends holding you tonight
Arms around each other, we're swaying to the music
That's rising from each of our lives

Here you will find the courage you seek
To be what you need to be
Imagine yourself in the center of a circle
The next one in the center may be me.

The cold light of morning falls on your eyes
As you wake to the day's work undone
The face in the mirror is haunted and pale
Reflecting your life all alone

But I have seen you shining in the night
Singing like the pull of the moon
Creating a tide that sweeps us along
Coming home with you in your song.

Imagine yourself...

Here you will find...

Each of us will stand in the center of the circle
The next one in the center will be me.

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