Just a Little Light - Grateful Dead

Well, there ain’t nobody safer than someone who doesn’t care

And it isn’t even lonely when no one’s ever there

I had a lot of dreams once, but some of them came true

The honey’s sometimes bitter when fortune falls on you

So you know I’ve been a soldier in the armies of the night

And I’ll find the fatal error in what’s otherwise alright

But here you’re trembling like a sparrow, I will try with all my might

To give you just a little sweetness

Just a little sweetness

Just a little light

I have always heard that virtue ought to be its own reward

But it never comes so easy when you’re living by the sword

It’s even harder to be heartless when you look at me that way

You’re as mighty as the flower that will grow the stones away

Even though I been a stranger, full of irony and spite

Holding little but contempt for all things beautiful and bright

Something shines around you and it seems, to my delight

To give me just a little sweetness

Just a little sweetness

Just a little light

This could be just another highway, coiled up in the night

You could be just another white-tail, baby, stranded on my brights

There’s a tingling recognition

Like the sound of distant thunder

And I begin to wonder

If the love I’ve driven under

Won’t ignite

So you know I’ve been a soldier in the armies of the night

And I’ll find the fatal error in what’s otherwise alright

Something shines around you that seems, to my delight

To give me just a little sweetness

Just a little sweetness

Just a little light