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SHADOWS WHAT WAS THAT I SAW IN THE CORNER OF MY EYE? NEVER MIND...IT'S ONLY ME... A
SILHOUTTE MIMICING...A SHADOW FLEEING FANTASY, REALITY...ALL OF IT JUST SEEMS TO BE A MERE TECHNICALITY... INK
UPON A WALL, THE BARELY SEEN THE HARDLY TO BE BELIEVED
THE OUT OF REACH... LIFE, AND DEATH, AND
ME HOW EASILY WE COME TOGETHER...
GOING WHERE THE WIND BLOWS A GHOST AND HIS SHADOW...
A GENTLE RAIN A GENTLE RAIN FALLS ON A GARDEN THAT GROWS UNOBSERVED AND UNATTENDED BY THE
SIDE OF THE ROAD IT'S BEAUTY UNSEEN, THE PEOPLE PASSING BY ARE CAUGHT UP IN THE RUSH TO GET
ON WITH THEIR LIVES THE WIND SINGS SO SOFTLY OF THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY AMIDST THE NOISE AND
CLUTTER IT GOES IT'S MOURNFUL WAY IT'S A FAR SADDER WORLD WHEN LAUGHTER FADES... EACH
MAN STANDS ALONE ON THE EDGE OF HIS LIFE LOOKING OUT UPON THE WORLD IN WHICH HE LIVES AND SURELY DIES HIS
SADNESS UNFELT, A TOMORROW HE CAN NOT SAVE IN THE END...HE'LL TURN AND WALK AWAY...
THE MARRIAGE SONG LONG AGO IN A ANOTHER LIFE TO MY LOVE I WAS BETROTHED
IN A PLACE SO FAR AWAY FROM HERE THE MEMORY'S ALMOST GONE WE WED UPON A SUMMER'S
DAY BENEATH A PERFECT SKY I CAN STILL SEE HOW SHE LOOKED AT ME THE SUN DANCING IN HER EYES
YEARS ROLLED BY AND THE WORLD CHANGED AS DID MY LOVE AND I TOMORROW'S CAME TOMORROW'S
WENT RIGHT BEFORE OUR EYES SOME GOOD SOME BAD SOME IN BETWEEN SOME HAPPY AND SOME SAD OUR HEARTS BELONGED TO THAT SUMMER DAY TO THE LOVE THAT WE ONCE HAD ONE DAY OUT WALKING WE FOUND OURSELVES IN THE PLACE WHERE
WE FIRST MET WE BOTH LAUGHED REMEMBERING HOW AWKWARD WE HAD FELT SUDDENLY WE BOTH REALIZED HOW MUCH HAD TRULY CHANGED I REMEMBER HOW ALONE I FELT KNOWING I HAD NOTHING LEFT
TO SAY I
SING THIS SONG FOREVER DEDICATED TO MY LOVE I PRAY HER LIFE IS BETTER NOW THAN WHAT IT HAD BECOME
I CAN STILL SEE HOW SHE LOOKED AT ME BENEATH THAT PERFECT SKY ON A SUMMER DAY SO LONG AGO IT'S LIKE ANOTHER LIFE
TRIED AND TRUE WAY BACK IN TIME...1945
NO ONE KNEW IF FREEDOM WOULD SURVIVE A
GENTLE SOUL I CALLED MY OLD MAN WAS JUST ONE OF MILLIONS WHO MADE A STAND IT'S HARD TO THINK THE
MAN I KNEW EVER AIMED DOWN A BARREL AS THE BULLETS FLEW HE FOLLOWED ORDERS WHEN IT CAME
HIS TIME NEVER SAID NOTHING TO ME MY WHOLE LIFE IT WAS HIS WAY, THE TRIED AND
TRUE ONE SIMPLY DOES WHAT ONE HAS TO DO
SO MANY MEN OF HIS GENERATION THEY WERE TRIED...TRIED
AND TRUE... NOW MY OLD MAN USED TO CRACK THE WHIP AND HE GAVE NO QUARTER AND HE
TOOK NO LIP KIND AND STRONG, HE HID THE SAD
OF LIVING THROUGH A WORLD GONE COMPLETELY MAD...
NOTHING I CAN DO FOR SOME REASON THE SUN REFUSED TO SHOW PEOPLE CAME IN DROVES TO
WITNESS THE UNKNOWN IT'S NOT AS IF THEY HAD SOMEWHERE ELSE TO GO BUT I JUST STAYED IN BED AND PULLED
THE SHEETS OVER MY HEAD (WHAT ELSE COULD I DO?)
THE INEXPLICABLE BECAME THE EVERYDAY NO
ONE TURNED AWAY THINKING THEY'D BE SAVED, THEY STARED AS IF AMAZED THEIR HEROES RAN AWAY BUT
I JUST STAYED IN BED AND PULLED THE SHEETS OVER MY HEAD
AND DREAMT INSTEAD...(WHAT ELSE COULD I DO?) THE
END WAS MARKED WITH DISBELIEF THE EMPTINESS OF ME PEOPLE WANDERED OUT OF
REACH WITH NOTHING LEFT TO DO, NOTHING MORE TO BE BUT I JUST STAYED IN BED AND PULLED
THE SHEETS OVER MY HEAD (THERE'S NOTHING I CAN DO...)
THE JOKE SINCE
JUST A LAD IT WAS ALL ABOUT GETTING THE LAUGH TO SEE'EM CRACK, TO SEE'EM ALL TAKE ONE STEP BACK I JUMP HEAD FIRST TO SUGGEST THE ABSURD IN SO MANY WORDS...HEAD
FIRST... DON'T
ASK ME WHY I NEVER LET ONE PASS ME BY GOD KNOWS I TRY, BUT SO MANY THOUGHTS JUST COME TO MIND...
IS THE JOKE ON YOU, IS THE JOKE ONE ME...WE'LL SEE IS IT WHAT YOU SAID,
IS IT WHAT I MEANT...WE'LL SEE IF YOU GET IT OR NOT, IT ISN'T UP TO ME... IT'S MY DEVOTION, I CAN HEAR THE WHEELS SET IN MOTION LIKE SOME POTION, SOMETIMES A STRANGE NOTION...
MY QUANDARY I WON'T COME IN BUT I CAN'T WALK AWAY TORN IN TWO AND OUT ON THE STREET MY
HEART AND MY MIND CAN'T AGREE ON WHAT I SHOULD DO, OR WHAT I SHOULD SAY DO I PUT OFF TIL TOMORROW
WHAT NEEDS DONE TODAY I'M DAMNED IF I DO, DAMNED IF I DON'T... I'M ON THE INSIDE LOOKING OUT I'M
OUTSIDE IN THE COLD AND RAIN GRASPING AT STRAWS THAT COME MY WAY
SHOULD I KEEP MOVING ON, SHOULD I STAND MY GROUND FORCE
THE SITUATION, OR LET IT DIE DOWN I'M DAMNED IF I DO, DAMNED IF I DON'T... YEAH I'M DAMNED IF I
DO, DAMNED IF I DON'T IF I STAY HERE WITH YOU, OR PACK IT UP AND GO... IT FEELS WE'VE COME ABOUT
AS FAR AS THE TWO OF US CAN AS WE ARE
WHAT WILL REMAIN WHEN WE FALL APART WILL
YOU REMEMBER ME, WILL I REMEMBER YOU WILL THE MEMORIES FADE AS THEY ALWAYS DO I DAMNED IF I DO, DAMNED
IF I DON'T...
10 YEARS HENCE OL' TOM FOLEY'S STILL KICKIN AROUND
PLYIN HIS TRADE FROM TOWN TO WOWN UP
WITH THE SUN TOM GREETS THE DAY AND SETS HIS MIND ON EVERY STEP HE TAKES YOU CAN'T KEEP A GOOD
MAN DOWN... IT'S BEEN 10 LONG YEARS SINCE HE LOST HIS WIFE 10 LONG YEARS SUCH A
LONELY LIFE A THOUSAND FACES, A THOUSAND NAMES
A THOUSAND LANDSCAPES ALL THE SAME... AND
WHEN OL' TOM IS ALONE IN THE NIGHT HE WISHES UPON A STAR IN THE SKY... A SIMPLE MAN WITH SIMPLE
NEEDS HIS TOOLS AND HANDS, AND A FADED DREAM WHEN THE WORK ALLOWS TOM VISITS
THE KIDS WITH KIDS OF THEIR OWN, AND LIVES TO LIVE...
NOT A CHILD ANYMORE YOU TURNED AROUND AND THE WORLD WAS CHANGED NOTHING REMAINED IF
ONLY THINGS HAD STAYED PRETTY MUCH THE SAME...
YOU BEGAN TO QUESTION THE RULES OF THE GAME EVEN
THE ROLE YOU PLAY WATCHED AS YOUR DREAMS BEGAN TO FADE
INTO YESTERDAY... NOTHING IS AS BEFORE...YOU'RE
NOT A CHILD ANYMORE... IT'S TIME TO GO, TIME TO FLY
TO LIVE YOUR LIFE AND SO MUCH TO FIND SO
TAKE YOUR TIME...
FRAGMENTS NO ONE EVER ASKED, BUT SOMEONE SPILLED THE BEANS DREAMERS WOULD ALL FLY
IF NOT FOR GRAVITY THE CIRCUS CAME TO TOWN, LEFT JUST AS SUDDENLY THE MIRROR IS CRACKED,
MY SHATTERED EYES BEHOLD REALITY THE FINAL NOWHERE...FRAGMENTS OF WHAT WAS...NOTHING AT ALL... MEANING
IS SUSPECT, NO ONE SAW THE TIME MEMORY A FOG THAT BLOWS ACROSS THEIR MINDS THE UNIVERSE EXPANDS
AND LEAVES US ALL BEHIND THE SKY JUST CALLED, I ANSWERED...IT SAID FORGET ABOUT YOUR LIFE... FAIRY TALE AND MYTH,
WHISPERS IN THE DARK SMILING, PANICED RIOTERS QUESTION WHO THEY ARE CIRCLES FORMING LINES
DARE SOME FOOL TO CROSS THE JIG IS UP, MY FRAGILE WORLD HAS HAD ABOUT ENOUGH...
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