Jackson Browne - Fountain Of Sorrow lyrics

Album: Best Of-Next Voice You Hear (1997)

Looking through some photographs I found inside a drawer
I was taken by a photograph of you
There were one or two I know that you´d have liked a little more
But they didn´t show your spirit quite as true
You were turning ´round to see who was behind you
And I took your childish laughter by surprise
And at the moment that my camera happened to find you
There was just a trace of sorrow in your eyes

Now the things that I remember seem so distant & so small
Though it hasn´t really been that long a time
What I was seeing wasn´t what was happening at all
Although for a while our path did seem to climb
When you see through love is illusions, there lies the danger
And your perfect lover just looks like a perfect fool
So you go running off in search of a perfect stranger
While the loneliness seems to spring from your life
Like a fountain from a pool

Fountain of sorrow, fountain of light
You have known that hollow sound of your own steps in flight
You have had to hide sometimes, but now you are all right
And it is good to see your smiling face tonight

Now for you & me it may not be that hard to reach our dreams
But that magic feeling never seems to last
And all the future´s there for anyone to change, still you know it seems
It´d be easier sometimes to change the past
I am just one or two yeahrs & a couple of changes behind you
In my lessons at love is pain & heartache school
Where if you feel too free & you need smth to remind you
Theres this loneliness springing up from your life
Like a fountain from a pool

Fountain of sorrow, fountain of light
You have known that hollow sound of your own steps in flight
You have had to hide sometimes but now you are all right
And it is good to see your smiling face tonight

Fountain of sorrow, fountain of light
You have known that hollow sound of your own steps in flight
You have had to struggle, you have had to fight
To keep understanding & compassion in sight
You could be laughing at me, you have got the right
But you go on smiling so clear & so bright

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