Every Time a Bell Rings

Every Time a Bell Rings
Copyright © John thomas Oaks, Caliora Music Publishing, ASCAP

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I used to watch you in the darkness
Before the coming of the dawn
Standing silent toward the morning star
Until the morning star was gone
Then from the tower on the hillside
The bells would bid the night farewell
Then you'd vanish like a whisper
Underneath the morning's spell

You said there never was a question
You knew you loved me from the start
And you'd be faithful through the ages
So I took those words to heart
You let me make the choice to love you
I knew the risk and took the leap
Now the bells are just the echo
Of the vows you couldn't keep

(Chorus)
And every time a bell rings
At any hour of the day
I stop and listen till the song fades
It's like you never went away
Will I ever learn to live and die without you?
Who can tell?
I feel my heart break
Every time I hear a bell

The bells will ring as long as I have ears to hear them
The bells will ring to mark the ending of the night
The bells will keep me in my prison
Till they come for me
The way they came for you
They'll be the last thing that I hear
Before they drag me to the light

Until that day I live in darkness
I run the night and curse the dawn
Sleeping morning star to evening star
Just as if you'd never gone
One night I'll hear them on the hillside
The bells announcing my farewell
I'll burn and vanish like a mist
Forever severed from your spell

(Chorus)