gene clark
shooting star
You were born into the storm Cast adrift upon a wave To be living and make life begin  Like the ancient mystic ship Bounding seaward toward the sun Becomes a cosmic dancer in the wind  Stars that shine and rains that swirls Sparkling sands of endless worlds Driven by the thought that men are free  Love that makes and breaks a man Memories fade and new ones stand And another ship bounds through the sea  Like in dreams sometimes it's so confusing to change When you move from where you have been To where you have come Like in life when you look in to a child's eyes They see it's all very clear It's near and then gone  Before the rising of the sun Before the whirling winds were stirred Before the simple rhymes of men were sung  Before the age of hate and pride Before we laughed, before we cried We were all contained and then begun