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It's a Great Day for the Angels

from Cardboard Vegas Roundabout by Dave Caruso

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lyrics

It’s A Great Day for the Angels
(Words & music ©2014 by Dave Caruso)

All your friends have come to see you / and we huddle like birds in the frost
To give strength to one another / and to honor the one who we lost
We were lucky to have known you / but now it’s time to give you away
And our only consolation / is to gather together and say

It’s a great day for the angels / They can’t wait to say “hello”
It’s a great day for the angels / But it’s hard to let you go

It was a springtime getaway just to talk with you awhile
And it was just like Christmas morning to bask in your beautiful smile
Everybody’s reminiscing with photos & stories and tears
But you light up our way, a picture postcard holiday. Oh, how we wish you were here!

It’s a great day for the angels / The angels are over the moon
It’s a great day for the angels / But for us it’s too soon

And when you make it to heaven, always remember this
You will never be forgotten and baby – you will be miss+ed

What a lovely celebration for remembering you
Such a glorious tribute to the person we knew
There’ll be another reception after this requiem
We hope and we pray that maybe one day we’ll get to see you again (but till then…)

It’s a great day for the angels / Heaven can’t even deny
It’s a great day for the angels / But it’s so hard to say goodbye

It’s a great day for the angels / Another good one got away
It’s a great day for the angels / But I’m missing you today

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Dave Caruso: Vocals, piano, synths

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from Cardboard Vegas Roundabout, released June 11, 2014
Dave Caruso: Vocals, piano, synths

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Dave Caruso Detroit, Michigan

Dave Caruso is a melodic pop songwriter, indie recording artist & music educator from Detroit, MI.

Dave offers a series of livestream songwriting courses at his website.

He's also the creator and host of SongwriterStories.com, a songwriting and music discovery podcast, featuring fascinating interviews with songwriters like Matthew Sweet, Marshall Crenshaw, Vicki Peterson and Tony Macaulay.
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