John Mccutcheon - At the Moment lyrics

At the moment they brought me the message I was oceans and hours away Wondering what I was doing The moment that you slipped away At the moment I'm looking out windows At a night that hold only one star In the morning it's gone but I know it's still Shining afar At the moment we raised up our voices And a bit of our soul was set free I'm still humbled and awed by the beauty Of the small part of you that's in me We laughed and we danced on the table And confounded the silence with song In the dark of this night still it echoes so brightly And strong I don't look for reward ever after For I hold this life much too dear From what I can tell both heaven and hell We create in abundance right here When the fire that burned is but ashes And the stories have all been retold The heat and the light will sustain us Long after the hearth has grown cold And grief has a place at the table For it's part of what we are made of And it'll stay long enough to remind us its mother Is love At the moment our lives become memory And all of our dreaming is done We shed what it is makes us different And we don what it is makes us one What is memory but time rendered timeless Some small proof we each live anew I refuse to surrender that small part of me That is you Some mark their days by the hours Some mark their days by the signs Me? I look to that star and where ever we are We will shine