We could pretend that we're walking on petals and light, golden light   Flaunting our love like a dance step mastered, turning from left to right   But after all the colored lights are gone   Time will leave the ashes and the dawn   You rise and meet the day      I'm watching you go, it's like spying on hope ever onward with more to burn   Giving your hands and your heart to the weave of the world, though it fights each turn   But you do not give up so easily   That's how I know you won't surrender me   You rise and meet the day   It's all I need, it's all I need to know, it's all I need to know      And I love you all the time   I had always feared that some gloomy ingratitude would seize me   But you have held the dream like every morning finds   A way to hang the sun up in the sky   And now I think I have it too –   The greatest part I learned from you   You rise and meet the day      And I can see kids, maybe yours, maybe not, ohohoh, I can hear what they'll say   Laughing at pictures with the old-fashioned hats and the clothes that we're wearing today   And they will know the true and humble power   Of love that made it through the darkest hour   You rise and meet the day   It's all I need, it's all I need to know, it's all I need to know