C F Keep a fire burning in your eye C F Pay attention to the open sky C F C G You never know what will be coming down C F I donʼt remember losing track of you C F You were always dancing in and out of view C F C G I mustʼve thought youʼd always be around Am F C Always keeping things real by playing the clown G Now youʼre nowhere to be found C F C G C F I donʼt know what happens when people die C F Canʼt seem to grasp it as hard as I try F C F Itʼs like a song I can hear playing right in my ear C G That I canʼt sing - I canʼt help listening C F And I canʼt help feeling stupid standing ʼround C F Crying as they ease you down C F C ʼCause I know that youʼd rather we were dancing G Am Dancing our sorrow away F Right on dancing C G No matter what fate chooses to play C Thereʼs nothing you can do about it anyway F C Just do the steps that youʼve been shown F C G By everyone youʼve ever known Am C7 Until the dance becomes your very own F G No matter how close to yours Am F Anotherʼs steps have grown C G In the end there is one dance youʼll do alone C F C G Keep a fire for the human race Let your prayers go drifting into space You never know what will be coming down Perhaps a better world is drawing near And just as easily it could all disappear Along with whatever meaning you might have found Am F C Donʼt let the uncertainty turn you around The world keeps turning around and around G C Go on and make a joyful sound F C Into a dancer you have grown F C G From a seed somebody else has thrown Am C7 F Go on ahead and throw some seeds of your own F G Am And somewhere between the time you arrive F And the time you go C G May lie the reason you were alive But youʼll never know C F C G C G C
