[ti:For A Dancer (Single Version)] [ar:Jackson Browne] [al:The Very Best Of Jackson Browne] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]For a Dancer - Jackson Browne [00:02.35]Keep a fire burning in your eye [00:06.13]Pay attention to the open sky [00:10.47]You never know what will be coming down [00:19.94]I don't remember losing track of you [00:24.48]You were always dancing in and out of view [00:29.33]I must have thought you'd always be around [00:39.03]Always keeping things real by playing the clown [00:44.93]Now you're nowhere to be found [00:57.38]I don't know what happens when people die [01:01.64]Can't seem to grasp it as hard as I try [01:05.64]It's like a song I can hear playing right in my ear [01:10.18]That I can't sing [01:12.26]I can't help listening [01:15.69]And I can't help feeling stupid standing round [01:20.43]Crying as they ease you down [01:25.00]Cause I know that you'd rather we were dancing [01:31.56]Dancing our sorrow away [01:37.21](right on dancing) [01:38.67]No matter what fate chooses to play [01:41.49](there's nothing you can do about it anyway) [01:45.17]Just do the steps that you've been shown [01:49.61]By everyone you've ever known [01:57.18]Until the dance becomes your very own [02:02.15]No matter how close to yours [02:05.60]Another's steps have grown [02:10.19]In the end there is one dance you'll do alone [03:01.54]Keep a fire for the human race [03:05.64]Let your prayers go drifting into space [03:10.14]You never know what will be coming down [03:19.26]Perhaps a better world is drawing near [03:23.60]And just as easily it could all disappear [03:28.41]Along with whatever meaning you might have found [03:37.51]Don't let the uncertainty turn you around [03:42.84](the world keeps turning around and around) [03:44.77]Go on and make a joyful sound [03:48.84]Into a dancer you have grown [03:53.15]From a seed somebody else has thrown [04:00.34]Go on ahead and throw some seeds of your own [04:05.43]And somewhere between the time you arrive [04:10.06]And the time you go [04:12.70]May lie a reason you were alive [04:16.42]But you'll never know