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Night Rains

Here Comes The Night (Theme from The Bell Jar)

Janis Ian

Touch in the tenderest night
before the feelings take flight
Touch and you make everything new
Everything bright, shiny and true
Before the dawn and the light,
here comes the night

Here in the heart, I still breathe,
longing, a part of me I can't see
And if the heart cannot redeem
one soul apart, one separate dream

Before the dawn and light,
here comes the night

Here we are waiting and longing
Crying out "I am more than just a man"
Building castles in the sand
All of us needing and leaving
long before the break of day
So little time to say
I am - I know the way

And I want to be somebody
who can see forever
Want to be somebody
who can see forever

Here in the heart, I still dream
Here in the heart of life I seem
somebody light, somebody new
Somebody bright, shiny and true
Somebody light, somebody new
Somebody bright, shiny and true
I want to be somebody
who can see forever

Before the dawn and the light
here comes the night
Before the dawn and the light
here comes the night

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