Candle, Candle
By: Greg Currie

 

  E               E
  I lit a candle for my desire
  A                   E
  Sent my prayers out through its fire
  Bm        A          E
  My candle is an open door
  Bm           A                   E
  To those who will be and those before
[Chorus]:

  Candle, candle burning bright
  In the day and in the night
  By the moon and the sun's light
  I share my dreams and I share my plights
  (To the gods I love...)
  I wrote a secret on a slip paper
  I watched it disappear at tip of a taper
  The smoke went away, my thoughts were betrayed
  To the gods I love, open and displayed

[Chorus]
  When the winter nights, are at their height
  Or the summer days are mostly light...
  I call it, I shout it, light!
  It comes and goes, as I light my candle light!

[Chorus]

 

Audio recording made Spring 2010 in Ottawa, Ontario at an informal bardic night.
©2010 Greg Currie. Produced here with permission of the author.