Requiem

Composer: Jay Clifford

 

Studio Recordings: Fusion Five Studios / Between the Dim and the Dark Sessions
Releases: Between the Dim and the Dark / Live at the Dock Street Theatre
Tablature: Tablature Archive
First Performance: January 29, 2003 (Eddie's Attic - Decatur, Georgia) Jay Clifford solo
JLC Debut: February 13, 2003 (Georgia Theatre - Athens, Georgia)
Alternate Title: It's Up to You
Lyrical Transcription: Reprinted from jumphq.com
 

It's up to you
For every passing day
To not let the past pass away

It's up to you
Now that you understand
To take those arms by the hand

Cause you can see it coming
You can see it coming
You can see daylight vague beneath the stars

It's up to you
To keep the memory
To not lose the shape of the melody

Cause we don't sing the same song anymore
And now your offering is requiem
Cause we don't sing the same song anymore
And now your offering is silent requiem

It's up to you
To understand at your age
To not let the years charge a wage

It's up to you
To see it in the eyes
Of all those who've gone, to realize

If you can see it coming
You can see it coming
You can see them high, high upon the stars

It's up to you
Not to sing along
When all of the feeling is gone

Cause we don't sing the same song anymore
And now your offering is requiem
Cause we don't sing the same song anymore
And now your offering is silent requiem

And I can see that look on your face
When you don't sing along, you don't sing along
I can see that look on your face
When you don't sing along, you don't sing along

Cause we don't sing the same song anymore
And now your offering is requiem
Cause we don't sing the same song anymore
And now your offering is requiem
Cause we don't sing the same song anymore