SONG TO SEE YOU THROUGH
(Tom Johnston)

The Doobie Brothers


Sometimes I can't see past a day,
I know I'm growin' tired and I feel it, yeah.
And the song that I sing when the notes begin to ring,
it's hard for my head to get into the melody, yeah.

Day to day, I tell you, day by day,
I see faces all around me.
When they start to smile, I just stop for a while
and I say baby, let me love you.

A small town store with and old wooden floor,
The old man inside sellin' dried goods
has a smile on his face, don't you know that's hard to replace,
I bet he's gonna live to be a hundred, yeah.

Day to day, I tell you, day by day,
I see faces all around me.
When they start to smile I just stop for a while
and I say baby, let me love you.

Summer is hot, and the winter is cold,
people all doin' just what they're told.
It's too bad, it's too sad.
Thinkin' for yourself is a hard thing to do;
well, don't you know they're depending on you
to see them through, yeah, to see them through?
It's the only thing you can do,
you know you got to see them through.

Day to day, I tell ya, day by day
I'm seein' faces all around me.
When you start to smile, I just stop for a while.
And I say baby, let me know you.

Shinin' my light like a candle so bright,
show me the way to my future, yeah.
With your hand on my face take me far from this place,
honey, I'll be the key to your heavenly door.

Hear me baby, calling to you now,
don't you know now, baby,
well, their countin' on you.
See me baby, reachin' for you, for you,
reachin' out for you, baby,
don't you see me reachin' out for you?

Hear me baby. Hear me callin' to you,
don't you know now, baby,
that they're countin' on you
to see them through.

Hear me baby, oh, hear me baby, but you,
don't you see me reachin' for you,
all night long I need you baby.

Hear me baby, oh, can't you hear me,
callin' out to your name.
See me baby, reachin' out for you, reachin' out for you,
gotta get to you, near you mama.

Hear me baby, callin' your name,
Don't you know that I'm countin' on you
to see me through, yeah.

Hear me baby, callin' to you, now, now,
Hear me baby, baby, I'm countin' on you to see me through, now.

Reachin' for you, ah, reachin' for you, baby,
Got to reach out for you now,
'cause you got to see your baby though.



(Contributed by Carlene Bogle - June 2004)