Shadow Hand - Bruce Hornsby

I’m shaking my shadow hand

Shaking my shadow hand

In light of all I’ve learned so far

I don’t believe I’m so strange

In spite of all this time I spend

Calling the air by a name

When the first light goes over the trees

He will be singing with me

And if I feel like singing alone

He always leaves me be

I’m shaking my shadow hand

As the sun moves round the bend

With an imaginary man

And we’ll make believe around and around again

I’m shaking my shadow hand

There’s a man out walking around in the night

A lantern in his hand

Looking all around, searching in vain

For an honest man

In my little world of make-believe

I talk to myself or my friend

If some real life comes tempting me

I’m going back in my room again

I’m shaking my shadow hand

As the sun moves round the bend

With an imaginary man

And we’ll make believe around and around again

I’m shaking my shadow hand

So nice to pretend, think I’ll do it again

No cards to send, no torn heart to mend

A little imagination and then

A world of fantasy with my friend

I’m shaking my shadow hand

As the sun moves round the bend

With an imaginary man

And we’ll make believe around and around again

I’m shaking my shadow hand

As the sun moves round the bend

With an imaginary man

And we’ll make believe again

It’s my shadow hand