Marigolds at Midnight

Candles wake the night in a golden stream

So feet follow where the marigolds stream

Names like prayers on the velvet air

I can feel your laughter everywhere

Under papel picado, the moon hangs low

Every little flame says, don't let go

Guide us home, little candles guide us home

Through the dark where the tender spirits roam

Memories bloom like marigolds in the rain

And the living dance with the departed again

Guide us home, little candles, guide us home

In your light, we are never alone

Your photograph rests on the table by the door

But your love is a river that keeps on mooring

The rainbow echoes like a heartbeat near

Telling the missing ones that we're still here

Pray that in the smoke the old songs rise

Crossing every border between our lives

Guide us home, little candles guide us home

Through the dark where the tender spirits roam

Memories bloom like marigolds in the rain

In the living dance with the departed again

Guide us home, little candle guide us home

In your light, we are never alone

I'll leave you bread, I'll leave you song

I'll leave the door where your shadows belong

If love is a road, then the night is a bridge

And we're leaving the hush at the edge of it

Guide us home

Little candles guide us home

Through the dark

Where the tender spirits roam

Memories bloom

Like marigolds in the rain

And the living damned

Do the dirty parted again

Guide us home

Little candles guide us home

In your light

We are never alone