as the daytime is approaching awake as i lay dreaming with my clothes off asleep with the light on asleep with the light on all my thoughts lay in a bundle next to a story left undone banjo untuned african drum asleep with the light on asleep with the light on is that a cricket in the kitchen is that a tune left unwritten was that you of whom i m dreaming riding horses through the valleys of virginia soaked by the rain asleep with the light on asleep with the light on you are gone now my dear departed broken shapes of broken hearted as i m dreaming in the morning distant fields of distant yearning take me back to the river back to the valley or the highest mountain asleep with the light on asleep with the light on