By The Light Of Common Day Lyrics - David Crosby

By the light of common day 

Things look different 

Than they did in the starlit dark 

the dark was warm and clouded 

it was easy to deceive yourself 

and those around you in the work 

to say the craziness and pain 

the spreading of the stain is 

exactly where you gain the spark to make it 

as if being happy isn't quite enough 

somehow I needed to make it rough 

rough enough to break it 

to make those long connections 

and run in wrong directions 

till I break it loose 

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I was wrong of course I see now 

The spark is there all the time now 

If you know How to listen to your calling 

The muse is quietly knocking on your door now 

to say the craziness and pain 

the spreading of the stain is 

exactly where you gain the spark to make it 

as if being happy isn't quite enough 

somehow I needed to make it rough 

rough enough to break it 

rough enough to break it 

you have to go faithfully each day 

and open up your head some way 

somehow 

and what will come in answer 

some strong and gentle dancer 

will carry a song through your door 

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Some great lifting force of light 

Will come to balance fearful night 

Raise its voice and then raise yours 

Raise its voice and then raise yours