because it's okay to rest for a little while.

I wrote this song for a friend of mine. It's one of those metaphorical songs. She has hodgkins lymphoma, which is a curable type of cancer with a survival rate of 80-90 percent. I spent a few hours at her house today and the walls reminded me of the sun.

You wake up
it's a Monday morning.
The sun is low
but it's ready to rise
and it's ready to shine.
I want to wash your troubles away
I'll be your friend
for as long as you want me to stay.
I'll be a raging river
carrying away the dirt from the ground
and leaving everything brand new.
Hey Emilie,
I'll do this all for you.

We don't have to move around too fast.
You can lay down if you want to.
If it's too early for your eyes
you can close them for a while.
I won't leave you when you're down.
Just promise me
you'll be up again
in time to see the sun rise.

We can take a break from reality
scream along to the radio
in the middle of a morning traffic jam
it's hardly eight a.m.
we don't have to do anything
and we don't have to go around the town.
I'll be here when you wake
to wait for you to put on your face.
I promise you can rest for a while
just promise me
you don't want to go back to sleep.

We don't have to move around too fast.
You can lay down if you want to.
If it's too early for your eyes
you can close them for a while.
I won't leave you when you're down.
Just promise me
you'll be up again
in time to see the sun rise.

So get ready to go.
The sun is up
and it's shining so bright.
It's waiting up in the sky
sending down a message just for you.
It's shining it's brightest today
hoping you'll stay around long enough
to watch it go back down.
And then tomorrow
we can wake up
and wait for it to rise again.