Dear Chicago

The winter wind is blowing cold tonight
With shadows dancin' in the crisp moonlight
Paths winding through the park I walked with you, oh it's true
Yes it's true, I wish Chicago could bring me back home to you

My mother rests within her tower high
With beauty of the heart and to the eye
Sharp care with wit watching over her flock, oh it's true
Yes it's true, I wish I were still in that flock with you

There is a light that shines
Shines casting shadows until my mourning breaks
And it'll endlessly shine in all I do
Oh and it shines within me because of you

To my sister and her mister whose wedding bells have chimed
Friendship I deeply valued that can be hard to find
Curved knife slips through wooded root to gather mane, oh it was true
So true, and I raise my pawpaw spirits high to you

To my father and my brothers we bled the same shade of blue
Though sharp spurs in the heat may have been all that we knew
Equipped with quips and tales you raised my spirits high, oh yes it's true
So true, and I trust you've got the love to all pull through

There is a light that shines
Shines casting shadows until my mourning breaks
And it'll endlessly shine in all I do
Oh and it shines within me because of you

I would have gone with you if you'd asked me to
But you had to go to be what you had be
With time I have grown to love knowing you're out there
In the California sun, breathing bay air

There is still a light that shines
Shines without shadows now that my mourning broke
And it will endlessly shine in all I do
Oh and it shines within me because of you
Oh yes it shines within me because of you
Oh and it shines within me because of you