Bow of Borrowed Light

Instrumental Intro

Verse 1

Woke up early Sunday

The rain had washed the street

My mother humming softly

Folding sheets still warm with sleep

I was seven years old

Nothing hurt and nothing owed

Pre-Chorus

She said look outside

The gray is giving way

She said look outside

A promise in the gray

Chorus

A life can be a rainbow

A bow of borrowed light

A life can be a rainbow

Hung across the sky

Colors nobody owns

A gift you cannot hold

A life can be a rainbow

Before the storm gets cold

Post-Chorus

(Fa la la la)

(Fa la la la)

(Fa la la la)

(Fa la la la)

Verse 2

I grew tall and restless

Left the porch and slammed the door

Chased a girl to Brighton

Slept on strangers' floors

Wrote her name on paper

Burned it when she moved away

Pre-Chorus

Still I saw the arch

Curving over rain

Still I saw the arch

And I believed again

Chorus

A life can be a rainbow

A bow of borrowed light

A life can be a rainbow

Hung across the sky

Colors nobody owns

A gift you cannot hold

A life can be a rainbow

Before the storm gets cold

Post-Chorus

(Fa la la la)

(Fa la la la)

(Fa la la la)

(Fa la la la)

Bridge

Seven colors

Seven years

Seven colors

Every tear

Seven colors

Wide and low

Every ending

Lets it go

Breakdown

Hold it

Hold it

Watch it fade

Hold it

Hold it

Watch it A gift you cannot hold

A life can be a rainbow

Before the storm gets cold

Post-Chorus

(Fa la la la)

(Fa la la la)

(Fa la la la)

(Fa la la la)

Instrumental Outro

(Violin and choir, slow and solemn)

Choir Outro

A bow of borrowed light

A bow of borrowed light

Colors nobody owns

Colors nobody owns

Verse 3

Years went by like water

Underneath the bridge

I came home one winter

Found her old blue linen dress

Still folded in the drawer

The way she used to press

Pre-Chorus

I stood beside the window

Where she used to call

I stood beside the window

And heard the rain fall

Chorus

A life can be a rainbow

A bow of borrowed light

A life can be a rainbow

Hung across the sky

Colors nobody owns

A gift you cannot hold

A life can be a rainbow

Before the storm gets cold

Post-Chorus

(Fa la la la)

(Fa la la la)

(Fa la la la)

(Fa la la la)

Verse 4

Now I have a daughter

Seven years of age

She runs out in the weather

Just to see what God arranged

I don't tell her anything

I just let her look

Pre-Chorus

She says look outside

The gray is giving way

She says look outside

A promise in the gray

Chorus

A life can be a rainbow

A bow of borrowed light

A life can be a rainbow

Hung across the sky

Colors nobody owns

A gift you cannot hold

A life can be a rainbow

Before the storm gets cold

Post-Chorus

(Fa la la la)

(Fa la la la)

(Fa la la la)

(Fa la la la)

Bridge

Seven colors

Passing down

Seven colors

Without a sound

Seven colors

Hand to hand

Every ending

Understands

Breakdown

Let it go

Let it go

Let it fall

Let it go

Let it go

Let it all

A bow of borrowed light

A bow of borrowed light

Colors nobody owns

Colors nobody owns

Choir Outro

A bow of borrowed light

(Fa la la la)

A bow of borrowed light

(Fa la la la)

Colors nobody owns

(Fa la la la)

Colors nobody owns

(Fa la la la)

Instrumental Outro

(Violin solo, choir humming softly)

Final Choir

(Fa la la la)

(Fa la la la)

(Fa la la la)

(Fa la la la)

(Fa la la la)

(Fa la la la)