Stars

Stood out in the rain
Let it soak me down
Before I called you . . . I called you.
Didn't see me there
Hidden by the rain
Beneath your window . . . But I saw you.

Putting on your face before the
Mirror on the wall
Dreaming that the looking glass
   was me . . .
Catching your fondest gazes
Living through your fickle phases
I love you.

And it's getting easier each day
To weep about you
Harder every night to sleep without you
How many years must I be driven
By this dream
Of love with you?

Spend my dimes on phones
Trying just to talk but
You don't answer . . . you let it ring.

Spend my nights alone
Catching falling stars to
Give to you, love,
They're just for you.

For stars fall every time a
   lover has to face the truth
And far too many stars have
   fell on me.
And as they trail the skies
And burn their paths upon my eyes
I cry.

"Stars" - Words and music by Daniel Fogelberg
From Dan Fogelberg's first studio album, Home Free
©1972 April Music Inc. and Hickory Grove Music ASCAP

See Discography for musical credits.