Daylight falls and I'm lost in the big parade   Hold my hand, darling, I'm afraid of the daylight   Shade is dark, cool and languid for life or love   Safe in shadows, that's never stark as the daylight   As the daylight      When I was just knee high my momma told me, never try   To be someone that I am not yet over time I had forgot   The wandering child, so lost at play   He's found himself but he can't find his way   In the daylight, oh, the daylight      Ooh, daylight   Ooh, daylight      Life is short, and there's no turning back the time   Fragrant meadows and rocks to climb in the daylight   In my mind, there's a corner I need to turn   Lessons lived is a lesson learned in the daylight   In the daylight      I miss the forest shade you took me there   The promise I made to never leave the dark so deep   Safe and soothing, yet I fear as I recall and now reflect   I see it's safer to connect, to the daylight   Oh, the daylight      Ooh, daylight   Ooh, daylight      Daylight falls and I'm lost in the big parade   Hold my hand, darling, I'm afraid of the daylight   Of the day