Sunrise, Sunset - Ray Conniff

Is this the little girl I carried?

Is this the little boy at play?

I don’t remember growing older

When, did, they?

When did she get to be a beauty?

When did he grow to be so tall?

Wasn’t it yesterday when they, were, small?

Sunrise, sunset, Sunrise, sunset

Swiftly flow the days

Seedlings turn overnight to sunflowers

Blossoming even as we gaze

Sunrise, sunset, Sunrise, sunset

Swiftly fly the years

One season following another

Laden with happiness and tears

Now is the little boy a bride groom?

Now is the little girl a bride?

Under the canopy I see them

Side, by, side

Bless the gold ring around her finger

Share the sweet wine and bread per glass

Soon the whole circle will have come, to, pass

Sunrise, sunset, Sunrise, sunset

Swiftly flow the days

Seedlings turn overnight to sunflowers

Blossoming even as we gaze

Sunrise, sunset, Sunrise, sunset

Swiftly fly the years

One season following another

Laden with happiness, and, tears

(Sunrise, sunset)