After All these Starry Nights

from Song​-​A​-​Day by Bill White

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Been so long since Ive seen the stars
Tonight they are shining bright.
Is it worth a million dead
to shake the rocks out of my head
And the dust out of the night?

After all these starry nights
If we still are here,
We we again blacken the sky
With the refuse of our years?

“It costs too much to keep them blue.
A tax increase will fall on you.
You want blue skies? what? Are you dumb?
Where is the money for blue skies to come from?”

If it takes another world war
to teach us the value of love,
Strength, empathy, and faith
Then we are already lost.

After all these starry nights
Will we still think about
The inestimable cost
Of life cut down like so much wheat
On mortgaged fields
Defaulted loans
A silent planet
Still lost in the stars
Blue skies and yellow bones

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from Song​-​A​-​Day, released July 3, 2019
written and perfrmed by bill white

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