Wicked Dream
In my final darkened hour
You will come for me
Hold a hand tell a tale
Tell me what to do
When the lights are burning out
You will guide me home
Away from blind confusing time
Straight back home to me
Living inside a dream
Living inside a wicked dream
Living inside a dream
Living inside a wicked dream
Beauty is all but easy now
Scared of life scared of dying
Shelter by your side
Sleep in peaceful silent night
Until the day is through
Living inside a dream
Living inside a wicked dream
Living inside a dream
Living inside a wicked dream
Living inside a dream
Feel like I’m living inside a wicked dream
Living inside a dream
Living inside a wicked dream
Beauty is all but easy now
The Pavilion Bird
Never I’ll be
So entirely free
So completely untied to the ground
As the day when I heard
The pavilion bird
Make her strange and beautiful sound
I laid me down
By the Traveller’s Pond
And I opened my ears and my heart
And I let that call
Take a hold of my all
With its singing work of art
A sound so pure
Deeper still
Away from life
Away from will
Now whenever I see
A pavilion tree
I put my ear to the sky
But there’s never a sound
No it can’t be found
And you know the reason why
The day is old
The sun is cold
Since we no longer speak
No birds will sing
No bells will ring
Since we no longer speak
1981-
It’s a walk in the sunniest of parks
It’s your home
It’s your family
Grow up in the grace of your mom
Stepping outside
Carrying the world in your hands
As you smile with your friends
As you laugh as you dance
As the music is playing
Always music is playing
In your ears in your head in your bones
And you take on it
And you become a part of it
And it lingers forever on in your heart
It’s art or at least you want it to be
But it’s big and it’s vast
And it’s getting hard to grasp
Where it starts and where it ends
And if it can make any sense
To dedicate your life to singing
You say nothing is real anyways
Might as well keep on doing
What makes you feel good inside
So there you go
Rhyming in the countryside of life
Where time is moving slow
But not in your head
Where things are spinning
Sometimes out of control
Like what if I’m not any good
What if none of these dreams will come true
What should I do
And what do they think about me
What if all I am doing is doing it wrong
What if there is no reward
What if all you will find is a stone
What if I’m alone
And so it goes
And sometimes you stare in the mirror
But you don’t know what you see
How can I be sure that guy is really me
Reality dissolves
Oh how easy you can make
Reality dissolve
So here you are
Not that old but far from forever young
Little ones around your feet
Diamonds and gold around your feet
Seasons pass weather change
Friends appear some remain
It’s all a play
Who’s in it
You don’t know
It’s not like your in control
Just trying to get your lines right
Trying to catch some limelight
Pandemic hits war strikes
Nature collapses your mother dies
And through it all you’re OK
Mostly OK
Walking about carrying the world in your hands
As you smile with your friends
As you laugh as you dance
As the music is playing
Always music is playing
In your ears in your head in your bones
In your dreams
Please Rise Again
Don’t really want to be here
Don’t want to face it all
Feel like I’m in a Shakespeare
Stuck in an empty hall
I know you hate it
And that you had enough
Feeling jaded
It’s getting rough
He’s your one companion
He is always there
The stream in the canyon
The final care
But now he’s tired
Tired just like you
It’s undesired
But also true
Rise up rise up
Rise again
Loose your sickness and rise
Rise once again
Rise up rise up
Rise again
Please turn back the time
Rise once again
In a room of silence
Your breath is all we hear
Breathing filled with violence
Fighting to stay clear
I started singing
Every song I knew
I got the feeling
You were singing to
Rise up rise up
Rise again
Loose your sickness and rise
Rise once again
Rise up rise up
Rise again
Please turn back the time
Rise once again
Down Below
Of all the ways of burning out
I’ll choose the way you lit up the sky on your way out
Of all the ways of fading out
I’ll go with your way
Any day now
And if there’s no heaven found
I’m going to make my way down below now
If nothing more than just to see the wonder of your face again
And if there’s no heaven found
I’m going to make my way down below now
If nothing more than just to see the wonder of your face again
