Look Before You Leap - Tim Feehan

This early summer, so uncertain

Between the crosses row on row

November children never sleeping

Beneath the falling snow

Empty arms that reach out for you

Watch the earth turn at your feet

I have lost my innocence

In the winter of my discontent

Look before you leap

We’re standing right on the edge

I can see my whole life flash before my eyes

Think before you speak

You could get in over your head

And you could lose by a heartbeat

Here we are now

High above this

This perfect earth, beneath the sky

All the humans, all the lovers

Dream their dreams as we go by

Love is plenty, love is famine

In empty fields where airplanes die

Kill the engines as we fly

We are parachutes against the sky

Look before you leap

We’re standing right on the edge

I can see my whole life flash before my eyes

Think before you speak

You could get in over your head

And you could lose by a heartbeat

Did you think this was a game

Where we could spread our wings and fly away