t__le: Lay down (Candles in the rain)
Artist: Melanie
[Words and Music by Melanie Safka]
[1970]

lay down lay down lay it all down
let your white birds smile
at the ones who stand and frown
lay down lay down lay it all down
let your white birds smile
at the ones who stand and frown

we were so close, there was no room
we bled inside each others wounds
we all had caught the same disease
and we all sang the songs of peace
some came to sing, some came to pray
some came to keep the dark away

lay down lay down, let it all down
let your white birds smile up
at the ones who stand and frown
lay down lay down, let it all down
let your white birds smile up
at the ones who stand and frown

so raise the candles high cause if you
don't we could stay black against the night
oh raise them higher again and if you
do we could stay dry against the rain

lay down lay down, let it all down
let your white birds smile up
at the ones who stand and frown
lay down lay down, let it all down
let your white birds smile up
at the ones who stand and frown

[Spoken: .....]

Little sisters of the sun
lit candles in the rain
Fed the world on oats and raisins
Candles in the rain
Lit the fire to the soul
Who never knew his friends

Meher Baba lives again
Candles in the rain
To be there is to remember
Lay it down again
Lay down
Lay down
Lay it down again
Men can live as brothers
Candles in the rain...

so raise the candles high
cause if you don't we could stay
black against the night
oh oh raise them higher again
and if you do we could stay dry
against the rain

lay down lay down, let it all down
let your white birds smile up
at the ones who stand and frown
lay down lay down, let it all down
let your white birds smile up
at the ones who stand and frown
lay down lay down, let it all down
.....
Men can live as brothers
Candles in the rain...

[Spoken: .....]

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