Dave Alvin Black Sky Lyrics

Black Sky Lyrics

Dave Alvin



(Blue Horn Toad Music, BMI)







Baby black sky 



Black sky is all I see



Yeah baby black sky 



Black sky is all I see



Please stand beside me baby



Shine your light for me.







Well I been all around the world



Ain't nothin' I ain't seen



From the Mekong River to the



San Joaquin



I made it down to Helena 



But it's just a ghost town



And I got to Jackson



But they tore old Jackson down.







Yeah I been around the world



Black sky is all I see



Why don't you stand beside me baby



Shine your light for me.







Baby well I went to the graveyard



To see my friend one last time



People gathered ‘round



Some were prayin, some were cryin'



They were talkin' about heaven



And the final judgement day



But all I could do was say goodbye to him



Turn and walk away.







Yeah I went to the graveyard



But black sky was all I seen



Please stand beside me baby



Shine your light for me.







I wake up every mornin'



Try the best I can



To make it one more day



In a world I don't understand



Now the sun baby's shinin'



But there's darkness on the land



And I can't find my way baby



Unless you take my hand.







Yeah I, I wake up every mornin' baby



Black sky is all I see



Please stand beside me baby 



Shine your light for me.







Yeah black sky



Black sky is all I see



Please shine your light pretty baby



Take this black sky away from me.