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Stand in the Shadow... Come...! Stand awhile with me. Ask me why I don't need someone, But I need some company! Stand in the Shadow... Come on! Stand within the fold. Ask me why I can't love someone, But I need someone to hold! Stank in the Shadow... COME ON! Stand within my shoes, Then tell me why my heart is glad, Yet I must cry the mourning blues! Stand within the specter; And feel this lasting pain. Then behold the haunted souls, Who would die for you AGAIN! Stand in the Shadow; Ever there, our Warriors fall, And speak the truth to them alone- Would YOU gladly give your ALL? I'm standing in the shadow, Of Old Glory, proud above; She screams our freedom's dignity, Those whom bought it need our love! I yearn for you, my noble friends... And I feel your pitiful tears, I hear one all for every Son, Fed on you, TWO HUNDRED YEARS! Sinfully, I hope and pray; That when they hat up off this ground, They'll find that as Hell goes, It righteously comes around! Was I talking to myself? 'beg pardon that you had to see. Calm yourself! Cool off, my friend... Come..., Stand here in the shade...WITH ME! |
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Caverns And gently found your bed, A silent tear fell of gloom, As I knelt and kissed your head. Then I stood and caught my breath, And turned away from you; And I wondered if you cared at all That I love you like I do. Now I'm off to abide in loneliness, And not certain where to start; I'll follow the echoes of fading love Through the caverns of my hear. I gleemed in at our baby. She was sleeping peacefully. She's so strong and beautiful; Dear God, why can't love be? I was trembling as I walked from her, And slowly closed the door. I know that with every step I take, I'll miss her more and more. I want terribly, to grow with her, And to live a father's part. Now my good night kiss will be a ghost, From the caverns of my heart. I'm sorry that it took so long For me to understand, That you need your freedom, And the world at your command. I guess I've only been your fool, And you'll be glad I'm on my way; Though you've said our love was wonderful, And it may return some day. Well 'some day' may come many times In the years that we're apart, But you'll never find your sorry way Through the caverns of my heart. |
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The Calamity of Truth I slip away to tarry there, To escape the clock, and caustic air, And delve in truths that lay so bare. I exhume myself from mortal face, And glide beyond with careless grace, Where thought is all, and is no place; Save the endless mail of time and space. I ignore the laws of physics past, And employ the logic of dreamers fast, Where the tools of greatness were hard cast; By other dreamers, whose visions last. There imagination is truth, unbound; The living cycle is perfect round, And all the answers can be found; By accepting truth as silent sound. I'm not the first to have wondered in; To take these treasures home again. But truths must vie with the price of sin, And few survive the greed of men. |