This song deals with Cheryl adjusting to being alone after her recent breakup. It started out as a sad song about how she was adjusting to her recent breakup, but then talks about the animals that Cheryl has at home. Although it is sad in parts, the tune is quite peppy.

Cheryl describes this song as an open letter to her former partner, indicating how much she misses her, and what Cheryl and the animals are doing. It wanders around among several topics, has some sad parts, and has some funny parts as well.

Her two cats were asleep on the table when she was writing this song. They aren't allowed on the table, and it was in the middle of the day. But the spray bottle, which is what is used to discipline them, was also on the table. Cheryl swears they were taunting her about that.

  • All the Live Long Day
  • Words And Music By
  • Cheryl Wheeler
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  • The sun is shinin', makin' this room so bright
  • And the cats are sleepin', right up on the table,
  • Breakin' all the rules in plain sight.
  • There's a cloud colored moon floatin' in the blue
  • Not waitin' for the sun to go away
  • I just wish I could walk with you and talk with you
  • All the live long day
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  • We never really had a winter, it never came and now it's gone
  • And the days grow longer, like the late night road
  • Like the odds you'll come back home
  • But I don't mind wasting my time
  • Waitin' for the ache to go away
  • I don't mind telling you it's what I do
  • All the live long day
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  • All the live long day, I wonder what I'll do
  • I don't see no way, of getting over you
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  • The boys were in the back field, sortin' out the who and when
  • It's like cat graffiti, but they read it with their nose
  • And it's written from the other end
  • Though James takes it in with a different spin
  • He likes to read the Sniff and Spray
  • It's just them and me, and my ennui
  • All the live long day
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  • I was watchin' the sunset, wishin' you were watchin' too
  • Through the winter branches,
  • Drop jaw red, Maxfield parrish blue
  • Then a windy night with the stars so bright
  • The trees just bow and sway
  • I been close to blue and missing you
  • All the live long day
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  • 2/18/97
  • (P) December 4, 1999
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  • ACF Music Group
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