"Brighter Shade of Blue"

by Joseph McCombs

Some follies never wake a dreaming heart,
Some truths can't put a burning hope to sleep.
Though love is sometimes born of errant sparks,
Its yield I always felt compelled to keep.

             The slightest things reminded me of you
             And songs I sang all ran into the blues.

And then, upon recalling sometime thoughts,
A voice appeared quite suddenly to me,
Reminding me of countless truths forgot
As fancy turned into a desperate dream.

             "Leave," the spirit beckoned me to do.
             "Leave, for yet your sky may still be blue."

The message never seemed before so clear;
I should have learned it many years ago:
If time is all it took to bring you near,
Then time is all it takes to let you go.

I'd never understood what loving means:
That two-way street I'd never learned to cross.
Now as your faded image paints my scene,
I mouth the last goodbye and count my loss.

             I leave now, in a brighter shade of blue,
             And never dream another dream of you.

             I'm leaving in a brighter shade of blue,
             And never dream another dream of you.

Back