It's Sunday noon in my room
The wind is really ragin'
Inside I'll hide in my tune
And think of yesterday playing
'In my room'
'In my room'
I feel like a kite high in a tree
Is this where I'm suppose to be?
I wish I was a little boy
When love was taken care of
I know. I will say.
Maybe today.

It's Sunday noon, cocoon and heal
Oh no, please don't throw me in the briar.
Where mothers made all the meals
And fathers built the fire
When will this feeling go away?
When will this feeling ever stay?

Maybe today. Maybe today.
Maybe today. Maybe today.
And now I'm not so mournful
As I sit and watch the wind blow
This place is my cathedral
And the choir's swaying just outside the window
Everyone needs a day to dream, perchance
Today I have yesterday to tempt me
So c'mon put on your best dress and let's dance
For the chairs are all but empty
When will this feeling go away?
When will this feeling ever stay?

Maybe today. Maybe today.
Maybe today. Maybe today.


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Maybe Today Lyrics as written by Carter Gravatt Barry Thomas Privett

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    just about sittin around daydreamin about the old day, missing old times and the way things used to be.... Great instrumental too!! Another reason to get Echo Echo

    vpipkton May 10, 2002   Link
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    I saw Carbon Leaf the night before last in concert... the most incredible concert I've ever been to! This song was fabulous.

    Epiphany74on June 02, 2002   Link
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    "Everyone needs a day to dream, perchance"

    = "to sleep, perchance to dream" - hamlet's famous soliloquy

    good job putting literary allusions in your songs, carbon leaf. this song is so overlooked..

    creosoteon February 20, 2007   Link
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    I really like this song its just so like sad but like just enjoying the past as he looked back and was just enjoying when he was little and all he had to do was play in his room and everything was taken care of

    "Where mothers made all the meals, And fathers built the fire, When will this feeling go away?, When will this feeling ever stay?"

    jammer11cson October 07, 2009   Link

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