Decade And One Lyrics - Waking Hour - Vienna Teng

Once when I was thirty-one 

I woke in the dead of night 

And heard the vastness of the snowfall outside 

Slipped downstairs in my bare feet 

Soon forgotten freezing 

And poured a milk glass full 

To wait out the tide 

Been a decade and one 

Been a decade and one my friends 

A decade and one 

Since I... 

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As the white went down 

I thought of the child upstairs 

I thought of the God upstairs 

That I couldn't believe 

I thought of the chosen man 

Asleep on his side of the bed 

How green becomes wood 

In a family tree 

Been a decade and one 

Been a decade and one so soon 

A decade and one 

Since I stood 

So proud 

And so unsure 

Photos 

Ebony glowing by the window there 

As always 

Fingers kissed the keys oh so tenderly 

Cool ivory returned in kind 

I thought of anger and adulation 

And the taste of dreams realized 

And the waste dreams realized leave behind 

A decade and one 

A decade and one 

I said out loud 

A decade and one 

And I am here 

And I am here still standing