Risk
Judy Collins

Time slips by in the hourglass

You can hear your name

Sand slides through the stranger's hand

As he deals the game


All the candles are burning low

No more cradles and no more snow

Bet your life on a lucky roll

Play your queen, you could win your soul


Stakes are high you can live or die

To risk everything


In your goblet the wine is black

As a moonless night

Wet your lips before you kiss

The blazing light


Bets are off but the game is on

Drop the armor you counted on

All your armies are fled and gone

Win your king, you can play your pawn


Take your time, you have just begun

To risk everything


Catch your tears in a golden sieve

Don't regret what you did to live

Don't forget that you must forgive

To risk everything


Through the window you see the storm

That is gathering

Painted gypsies on dappled horses

Are galloping


Through the trees in the howling wind

Down the hills to the river bend

Shadow ghosts that are blind as night

Shrieking curses against the night


Daring you to come join their flight

And risk everything


Catch your tears in a golden sieve

Don't regret what you did to live

Don't forget that you must forgive

To risk everything


There is nothing to hold you now

To your fault or mine

Fallen idols and martyred souls

Are the only kind


Feet of clay in the emerald skies

Birds of prey when the dreamer dies

Perfect crosses perfect your lies

Burning saints in the flaming skies


Bet your life every promise dies

All that's left for you to try is risking everything


Catch your tears in a golden sieve

Don't regret what you did to live

Don't forget that you must forgive

To risk everything


Catch your tears in a golden sieve

Don't regret what you did to live

Don't forget that you must forgive

To risk everything


Time slips by in the hourglass

You can hear your name

Sand slides through the stranger's hand

As he deals the game


All the candles are burning low

No more cradles and no more snow

Bet your life on a lucky roll

Play your queen, you could win your soul


Stakes are high you can live or die

To risk everything


Catch your tears in a golden sieve

Don't regret what you did to live

Don't forget that you must forgive

To risk everything


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Lyrics by Judy Collins

  Albatross   All On A Wintry Night   All Through the Night   Amazing Grace   Amazing Grace [DVD]   Amazing Grace [Selection 1]   Anathea   And I Love Her   Angel On My Side   Angel, Spread Your Wings   Away In A Manger   Barbara Allen   Bard Of My Heart   Battle Hymn of the Republic   Belfast to Boston   Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered [From Pal Joey]   Beyond The Sky   Bird on a Wire   Bird On The Wire   Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair   Blackbird   Bob Dylan's Dream   Bob Dylan's Dream   Bold Fenian Men   Bonnie Boy Is Young   Bonnie Ship The Diamond   Born To The Breed   Both Sides Now   Bottle of Wine   Bridge Over Troubled Water   Bright Morning Star   Bright Morning Stars   Brother, Can You Spare A Dime   Cactus Tree   Campo De Encino   Cat's in the Cradle   Cats In The Cradle   Che   Chelsea Morning   Christ Child Lullaby   City Of Cities   City of New Orleans   Coal Tattoo   Come Away Melinda   Come Rejoice   Cook With Honey   Crow on the Cradle   Daddy You've Been On My Mind   Daddy, You've Been On My Mind   Danny Boy   Dark Eyes   Daughters Of Time   Day By Day   Democracy (New Recording)   Dens Of Yarrow   Diamonds and Rust   Don't Cry for Me Argentina   Don't Say Goodbye Love   Don't Say Goodbye Love   Dream On   Dress Rehearsal Rag   Drifting Away   Early Morning Rain   Easy Times   Elena   Embraceable You   Embraceable You [From Girl Crazy]   Emilio   Fannerio   Farewell   Farewell To Tarwathie   Feels Like Home   Fisherman Song   Fortune Of Soldiers   Four Strong Winds   From A Distance   From Grace   Ghost Riders In the Sky   Golden Apples of the Sun   Golden Slumbers   Good Day Sunshine   Good King Wenceslas   Grandaddy   Great Selchie of Shule Skerry   Great Selchie of Shule Skerry [Child #113]   Great Selchie of Shule Skerry [Child #113]   Hallelujah   Hard Lovin' Loser   Hard Times For Lovers   Hark! The Herald Angels Sing   Helplessly Hoping   Hey Jude   Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye   Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye   Holly Ann   Home Before Dark   Houses   How Are Things in Glocca Morra?   I Believe In You   I Can't Cry Hard Enough   I Choose Love   I Know Where I'm Going   I Saw Three Ships   I Think It's Going to Rain Today   I'll Be Seeing You   I'll Follow the Sun   I'll Never Say Goodbye   I'll Be Seeing You   I'll Never Say Goodbye   In My Life   In The Bleak Mid Winter   In the Heat of the Summer   It's All Over Now, Baby Blue   It's All Over Now, Baby Blue   Jingle Bells   John Riley   Just Like A Woman   Kingdom Come   La Chanson des Vieux Amants   La Chanson des Vieux Amants (The Love Song of Old ...   La Colombe   Lark in the Morning   Last Thing On My Mind   Let It Be   Let It Snow   Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!   Let's Pretend   Let's Pretend   Like A Rolling Stone   Lily Of The Valley   Little Brown Dog   Liverpool Lullaby   Loch Lomond   Long and Winding Road   Love Hurts   Love Hurts   Love Hurts   Love Minus Zero/No Limit   Lovin' And Leavin'   Maid Of Constant Sorrow   Make Our Garden Grow   Mama Mama   Masters Of War   Melody   Memory   Miracle River   Moon Is A Harsh Mistress   Morning Has Broken   Morocco   Mr. Tambourine Man   My Father   My Feather   My Heart Stood Still   My Heart Stood Still [From A Connecticut Yankee]   My Heart Stood Still [From Connecticut Yankee]   My Ramblin' Boy   New Moon Over the Hudson   Nightingale I   Nightingale II   Nightingale, Pt. 1   Norwegian Wood   Nothing Lasts Forever   O Daddy Be Gay   Oh Happy Day   Oh, Had I A Golden Thread   Once I Was   One Day At A Time   Open the Door   Open The Door (Song For Judith)   Out Of Control   Over The Rainbow   Pack Up Your Sorrows   Pastures Of Plenty   Pastures Of Plenty (With Ani DiFranco)   Pirate Jenny   Pirate Ships   Plaisir D'Amour   Plaisir D'Amour   Poor Immigrant   Pretty Horses   Pretty Polly   Pretty Saro   Pretty Woman   Priests   Priests (LP Version)   Prothalamium   Pure Imagination   Queen Of The Night   Races   Raised On Rock And Roll   Red Winged Blackbird   Run   Running for My Life   Sailors Life   Sally Go 'Round The Roses   Salt Of The Earth   Sanity And Grace   Santa Claus Is Coming To Town   Santa Claus Is Coming to Town [DVD]   Santa Clause Is Coming to Town   Secret Gardens   Secret Harbor   Send In The Clowns   Send in the Clowns [From A Little Night Music]   Shameless   Shoot First   Shule Aroon   Silent Night   Silver Bells   Silver Skies Blue   Simple Gifts   Since You Asked   Since You've Asked   Singing Lessons   Sky Fell   Slow Burn   Someday Soon   Song For Duke   Song for Judith (Open the Door)   Song For Martin   Song For Sarajevo   Stars in My Eyes   Story Of Isaac   Strangers Again   Sunny Goodge Street   Suzanne   Sweet Dreams   Sweetheart On Parade   Tell Me Who I'll Marry   Test of Time   That Song About The Midway   The Air That I Breathe   The Best Is Yet To Come   The Blizzard   The Bonnie Ship the Diamond   The Cat's in the Cradle   The Coming Of The Roads (LP Version)   The Desperate Ones   The Dove   The Fallow Way   The Golden Apples of the Sun   The Holly And The Ivy   The Last Thing On My Mind   The Life You Dream   The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress   The Night Before Christmas   The Night Comes On (New Recording)   The Rainbow Connection   The Rest of Your Life   The Rising of the Moon   The Rose   The Times They Are A-Changin   The Twelve Days of Christmas   Thirsty Boots   Through the Eyes of Love   Through the Eyes of Love [Theme from Ice Castles]   Time Passes Slowly   Tomorrow Is A Long Time (LP Version)   Trust Your Heart   Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season...   Twelve Gates To The City   Voices   Wars Of Germany   Weaver Song (Holly Ann)   Wedding Song   Weight Of The World   Wheel Rolling   When I Go   When You Wish Upon a Star   Where or When   Who Knows Where The Time Goes   Who Knows Where the Time Goes?   Wild Mountain Thyme   Wild Rippling Water   Wind Beneath My Wings   Wind, Water, Fire And Stone   Wings Of Angels   Winter Sky   With God On Our Side   Younger Than Springtime   Younger Than Springtime [From South Pacific]

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