"Try for the Sun"

                                                      We stood in the windy city                                                     

                                                      The gypsy boy and I
                                                      

                                                      We slept on the breeze in the midnight
                                                      With the rain droppin' tears in our eyes

                                                      

                                                      And who's going to be the one
                                                      To say it was no good what we done?
                                                      I dare a man to say, "I'm too young
                                                      For I'm going to try for the sun"

                                                     

                                                     We huddled in a derelict building
                                                     And when he thought I was asleep
                                                     He laid his poor coat round my shoulder
                                                     And shivered there beside me in a heap

                                                     

                                                     And who's going to be the one
                                                     To say it was no good what we done?
                                                     I dare a man to say, "I'm too young
                                                     For I'm going to try for the sun"

                                                    

                                                    We sang and cracked the sky with laughter
                                                    Our breath turned to mist in the cold
                                                    Our years put together counted thirty
                                                    But our eyes told the dawn that we were old

                                                    

                                                    And who's going to be the one
                                                    To say it was no good what we done?
                                                    I dare a man to say, "I'm too young
                                                    For I'm going to try for the sun"

                                                    

                                                    Mirror, mirror, hanging in the sky
                                                    Won't you look down what's happening here below?
                                                    I stand here singing to the flowers
                                                    So very few people really know

                                                   

                                                   And who's going to be the one
                                                   To say it was no good what we done?
                                                   I dare a man to say, "I'm too young
                                                   For I'm going to try for the sun"

                                                   Songwriter
 

                                                   DONOVAN LEITCH