Goodnight

© 2015 Mark Cote

goodnight Nikola
goodnight dear John
I know you'd say "I told you"
it's so sad that you're gone
you were the ones who were awake
I know it's getting late
goodnight goodnight goodnight

in our darkness of chasing tails
finger pointing still prevails
ones who paint the colors see the light
when others just see the night

why do teachers fade away
people forget the words they say
like children without a clue
not knowing just what to do

goodnight Martin
goodnight George
learn to live together
it's not 1984
you were the ones who were awake
I know it's getting late
goodnight goodnight goodnight

(instrumental)

and if we learn to see the dawn
what will be left will it be gone
refuse to see out of spite
and to us all goodnight

goodnight Carl Sagan
Leonardo too
the boundaries of our minds
are within me and you
you were the ones who were awake
I know it's getting late
goodnight goodnight goodnight