Beyond the Iron Gate - Richard Shindell

First warm day in all these months

All the sunlight made me drunk

Made me feel like I could run

Made me feel like I was young

So I went out all on my own

I told no one where’d I’d go

Anyway I did not know I only knew I had to go

Out beyond the iron gate

Out there where you said you’d wait

Gotten used to living here

Call it habit call it fear

Though I had glanced your way for years

Til today I’d never dared

But it was easy slipping through

Easy as the morning dew

That lingers til the afternoon

And rises back into the blue

Out beyond the iron gate

Out there where you said you’d wait

There you were right by my side

Reaching down to lift me high

I held on with all my might

Held on to a world made right

Out beyond the iron gate

Out there where you said you’d wait

I heard voices all around Someone lifted off the shroud

I saw my children gather round

Now I will tell them what I found

Out beyond the iron gate

Out there where you said you’d wait