For A Dancer

EADGBe    C  -  032010 F  -  133211 G  -  3x0003  or  320033 Am -  x02210 C7 -  x32310 [Verse 1]   Keep a fire burning in your eye   Pay attention to the open sky   You never know what will be coming down          I don’t remember losing track of you   You were always dancing in and out of view   I must’ve thought you’d always be around          Always keeping things real by playing the clown   Now you’re nowhere to be found [Instrumental]           [Verse 2]   I don’t know what happens when people die   Can’t seem to grasp it as hard as I try It’s like a song I can hear playing right in my ear   That I can’t sing  -  I can’t help listening   And I can’t help feeling stupid standing ’round   Crying as they ease you down   ’Cause I know that you’d rather we were dancing   Dancing our sorrow away   Right on dancing           No matter what fate chooses to play   There’s nothing you can do about it anyway [Bridge]   Just do the steps that you’ve been shown   By everyone you’ve ever known    Until the dance becomes your very own   No matter how close to yours   Another’s steps have grown     In the end there is one dance you’ll do alone [Instrumental]              [Verse 3] 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   Don’t let the uncertainty turn you around           The world keeps turning around and around   Go on and make a joyful sound [Bridge]   Into a dancer you have grown   From a seed somebody else has thrown   Go on ahead and throw some seeds of your own   And somewhere between the time you arrive   And the time you go   May lie the reason you were alive   But you’ll never know               [Outro]