Cumulus

Stretch out your hand
Lift up your palm
Run fingers through sunlight
And nails 'cross the lawn
See all the beautiful
Things to be found
That began from the moment
We lay on the ground

It's an affirmation of my life
(When raindrops fall)
Let good times roll and run
(And thunder clap loud)
Dance, play with tilted heads
(Let lightning hit ground)
Little child, we have silver linings
(For which we need a cloud)

Sit by a pool
Perfumed by sweet air
Son, hold close your lover
And brush her soft hair
Thank God that he's given
A life with such sun
Inside of a world
Ugly and overrun

It's an affirmation of my life
(When raindrops fall)
Let good times roll and run
(And thunder clap loud)
Dance, play with tilted heads
(Let lightning hit ground)
Little child, we have silver linings
(For which we need a cloud)

If there is no war,
What happens to peace?
If we've never hungered
Why, then, sup at the feast?
And if death didn't come
Would we bother to live?
If clouds never came
Then no linings they'd give.

It's an affirmation of my life
(When raindrops fall)
Let good times roll and run
(And thunder clap loud)
Dance, play with tilted heads
(Let lightning hit ground)
Little child, we have silver linings
(For which we need a cloud)

So sayeth The Brad...