When the Sun Comes Out Again — Adult residents step from porches after a Central Valley rain as a colossal golden sun breaks through and wet Merced streets mirror the sky

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When the Sun Comes Out Again

Words by Douglas Heyes Jr. Listen to the recorded versions and follow the lyric below.

Original Doug Heyes lyrics · AI-generated music & vocals

The narrator mourns the loss of friends and of his own former ability to brighten a dark moment. Winter and fading color express an emotional season that seems unable to end. He keeps moving nonetheless, imagining a future morning when companionship and songs beside the river might make sunlight feel possible again.

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Recorded versions

3 recordings. Different voices and arrangements bring another side of the song into the light.

Lyrics

When the Sun Comes Out Again

Words by Douglas Heyes Jr

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WHEN THE SUN COMES OUT AGAIN

No one should ever have to know
Or feel the way I feel
The things I keep way down below
Have gotten way too real
I'm a ghost from late at night
When the Sun is burning bright
And Time is not a line
But a circle in a wheel

I used to have a smile
I could turn on like a light
To shine into the darkness
In the middle of the night
I try to keep believin’
As the Sunshine turn to rain
But I ain't breakin’ even
At the ending of the game

When will the Sun come out again?
When will this long, cold Winter end?
What is that empty shadow
Where there used to be a friend?
Now that they're all gone away
Tomorrow, same as yesterday
Is it the beginning of the end
When will the Sun come out again?

I remember everything
These eyes have ever seen
Like faded watercolors
At the edges of a dream
I think sometime I crossed a line
Where it all just fades away
The Sunrise is still in my eyes
As the skies are turning gray

I guess I will just carry on
Until, again, I see the Dawn
Singin’ songs by the River with my new Best Friend
When The Sun Comes Out Again
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