'Cello Song

When the day is done

Down to earth then sinks the sun

Along with everything that was lost and won

When the day is done.

When the day is done

Hope so much your race will be all run

Then you find you jumped the gun

Have to go back where you begun
When the day is done.

When the night is cold

Some get by but some get old

Just to show life’s not made of gold

When the night is cold.

When the bird has flown

Got no one to call your own

Got no place to call your home

When the bird has flown.

When the game’s been fought

You sped the ball across the court

Lost much sooner than you would have thought

When the game’s been fought.

When the party’s through

Seems so very sad for you

Didn’t do the things you meant to

Now there’s no time to start anew

When the party’s through .

When the day is done

Down to earth then sinks the sun

Along with everything that was lost and won

When the day is done.

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Nick Drake, Five leaves left, 1968.