Mindy Smith: songs about her mom dying of cancer

One Moment More

Hold me
Even though I know you're leaving
And show me
All the reasons you would stay
It's just enough to feel your breath on mine
To warm my soul and ease my mind
You've got to hold me and show me now

Give me
Just one part of you to cling to
And keep me
Everywhere you are
It's just enough to steal my heart and run
And fade out with the falling sun

Oh, please don't go
Let me have you just one moment more
Oh, all I need
All I want is just one moment more
You've got to hold me and keep me

Tell me that someday you'll be returning
And maybe
Maybe I'll believe
It's just enough to see a shooting star
To know you're never really far
It's just enough to see a shooting star
To know you're never really gone

Oh, please don't go
Let me have you just one moment more
Oh, all I need
All I want is just one moment more

Oh, please don't go
Let me have you just one moment more
Oh, all I need
All I want is just one moment more
You've got to hold me and maybe I'll believe

So hold me
Even though I know you're leaving

Long Island Shores

Oh my soul craves to go home
to long island shores again
take me back to old north Walk?
to breathe in the harbor wind.

I'll be leaving Tennessee on the first plane
Sunday gone to my family reunion
There my father preached at the church
on the corner of Old Nickels Road
He raised four children in a green house
we are all well and now we are all grown

There my mother Sharron lies deep in the earth of the long island shores
I will visit her grave and plant yellow roses at her stone

I'll be leaving Tennessee on the first plane
Sunday gone to my family reunion
I'll be leaving
gone to my family reunion
Oh my soul craves to go home.