Somewhere

Somewhere over the rainbow skies are blue …
Little bird outside my locked window in full song
He knows no despair or laughter there
For him the day is one moment long
One moment long
I have seen the beggar in me
Tried to look her way and smile
As she lifted up her head from her newspaper bed
Even the smell made me reel
What makes you real?
Somewhere over the rainbow skies are blue
Birds fly over the rainbow
Oh the lights have dimmed
One girl in a hospital bed
The stage is also gone
And the nights can take so long
Somewhere over the rainbow…
I’ve been to the water thinking of Virginia
With a weight clutched in each hand
What with the richness of the dark
The night owl calling
I could not stay there long, stay there long
Oh somewhere over the rainbow skies are blue
Birds fly over the rainbow
Why then oh why can’t I?