Written by: Neil Diamond
Written by: Robby (J.R.) Robertson
Arranged By: Don Costa
From the Album: The Voice
Label: Reprise Records
Recorded: September 27, 1976
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Dry your eyes, and take your
song out, it's a newborn afternoon.
If you can't recall the singer, you
can still recall the tune.
Dry your eyes and play it
slowly, like you're marching off to war,
Sing it like you know he'd want
it, like we sang it once before.
From the center of the circle to
the midst of the waving crowd.
If it ever be forgotten, sing it
long and sing it loud.
Come, dry your eyes.
And he taught us more about
giving than we ever cared to know.
But we came to find the secret
and we never let it go.
And it was more than being holy,
though it was less than being free,
And if you can't recall the
reason, can you hear the people sing,
Through the lightning and the
thunder, to the dark side of the moon,
To that distant calling angel
who descended much too soon.
And come, dry your eyes.
(musical interlude)
Come, dry your eyes.