BEYOND
THE BLUE SKY It is such a long time
Between
where you are
And where you want to be
It takes so much time
To arrive
at the gates You look back and want
To change,
but you can't
Think of all the girls
You could have had
The one's that
wanted nothing
To do with you, made you sad
And made you who you are today
Look
at your trophies
Displayed in your place
Does that even make you feel good
at all? TO ALL THE
FRIENDS AND LOVERS To all the
friends and lovers
Let's be proud of each other
Let's make the time to try
and understand
The things that complicate a man
I can see all my friends
on the beach
In the smallest grain of sand
I could wander forever lookin'
for the right tune
Then I'd strike up the band FAME
AND FORTUNE The fame and fortune
you possess
Can be stolen, can be lost
It is not you, it is something you
test
But it feels so good
Money and fame is something you feel
You feel
you should have them
Along with glory and prominence
And social status
These
are all so precarious
You can't take them with you IT
WAS ALL A DREAM Why does it seem
to be a dream?
It seems that I was just a boy
The days came and went
Now
I stand, a man, my feet on the pavement
And the people I've know for so long
They
seem so dear to me
I've never met another
Who seemed such a mystery
But
where did the hope go?
We wonder as we sigh
It's as though yesterday never
was
Or am I speaking of today
What is the sense in it
Troy and Eden gone
away
They linger out there in the gray
With all the poets
And the lines
that shocked you
They pleased you
Should we not pursue the fantastic?
Or
the miraculous?
Was it naïve to feel mystical?
You were so sensual
Don't
be mournful
Has your work come to nothing?
Does anyone want to hear the
Words
you have to breathe?
Let's talk of the good world
And the laborers and the
leavers
I think I heard some coughing in a distant room
I think I heard
And
now I see things for what they are
You stand outside the house
It's illuminated
by the stars
You have honor
So defeat does not come easy
In the face
of all that you thought it was
But hope still matters
Even though defeat
is the name
Distant strains
The house looks empty, old, and hard
So difficult
to discard
But you must keep working
Enjoy yourself
After all, it's just
a dream SAN FRANCISCO
SERENANDE We pulled out of San
Francisco last night
Seems like snow seems to stop you from
Going where
everything is right
Well a song came on to the radio
I first heard it when
I was young
Full of romance
And ready to go
Just outside your window
I heard
Those ivy boys crow
And the song hit me in my soul
And it painted
such a large scene
If I had been blessed to
Have life be a progression
From
bad to good
I'm not sure the song would
Not hit me, the way it did back
then
Stirred only by the wind
Now the song brings to light
All the failures,
the disappointments
And the things I've never been
But maybe I have taken
the path
Of the vanquished
And maybe those who vanquish
Are listening
to those same songs
But finding the meaning that I once did
Under their
fur coats
Keeping all of their secrets hidden
So that we may not find out You
have so many choices
Don't fear the great erratum of your life
Everyone
has them
Failure is everywhere
But what happens to those
Who arrive at
the end of their lives
To find their dreams unmet
The absence of wealth,
prominence,
Accomplishment, or family
You must work on what is
Within
your control
And relinquish all that is not TWIN
FALLS Hey, Baby wants the years
back
Mama prepares the lunch sack
The world works out its symphony Hey,
David pulls down the shade
While Lucinda dances on the promenade
Luck has
no meaning, nothing is earned CABANA
HOTEL Quiet drifting, turning
Through
the stalls
Where the turnstiles twisting
Like a dreidl
Imitate the whisper
that you see
Falling like a snowflake between you and me
Caught like a dash
from the sky
Green dreams
In an open mile
Shall we stop and drink for
a while?
I've lost the hope
But you are still here
I could love it and
leave it
But I could not deceive it
Some old friends by the table
And
the scenes that steal it
Between a wood and a frozen mile
I believed that
is it worthwhile
If I'm drunk
And it's 4 am
By the pool and the well
In
the Cabana Hotel Oh, she wants all her lovers
back
But the past is too far
And the corners
are now black TO THE
YOUNG Love is all that is for real
Youth
is never tasted
Until it's gone
Wide and simpler in a cold man's harbor
The
gray fang of the elder statesman
Rapping at the doors of eternity
I think
that youth once consumed me
On a cold night where faith
Worked a scene to
steal
Still, after youth is gone
And observed from a starry stoop
Love
is all that is for real PASS
THE CLOAK #ii Keep your head up
baby
You sad, doe-eyed lady
Make your snare-drum hit
Like a dream and
a candle lit
What happened to all those beginnings?
What happened to all
those songs?
The more you know, the less you fight So
pass the torch, now baby
While the paupers pass you by
You are old enough
to notice
That you're not too young to die
In shades of Bordeaux
The
rock n' rollers sing out
About the pretty one's days
Then you get knocked
down again SOMETHING
GOLD Something golden in the distance
Does
not matter what it is
The sun warms the green day
So bright, so empty, the
flatness disappears
Nothing is new LOVE
FORKS AND BOUNDS Love forks and
bounds along
Through the green bay
Waves crash on the shore
While the
white night
Goes sinking beyond
The close of the day And
in the shadow of your heart
When moon and sparrow
Stilt the cold winds
That
swept the streets
Beggars, loners, losers
Scuttle into their hideaways
And
accept defeat But I refuse to accept it
To
accept that there is nothing beyond
To accept that life is merely
Mechanical
No,
the classic hand
The romantic lip
The tossle of the slow-sinking ship
Do
not escape it
Do not attach meaning Because
5 years are gone
And now that you sit beside
The vision falls
You do
nothing wrong
Except you elucidate the main point
It becomes painfully clear
That
dreams are better left unmet
Aside from my ego blooming
The existence of
you by my side is dooming
To all of the dreams I ever had THE
BELL TOLLS The bell tolls
I'm
still alive
Older and alone
Watching late night TV
Still alive
The
bell tolls CALIFORNIANS
Weather's warm and it is May
You
forget when you get lost
That when you moved to California
You didn't understand
the cost You thought when you boarded the plane
You
would find some new terrain
But you see how the people start to change
But
they were the same all along You say, baby
let's look into the sunset
Let's watch it as it falls
Why do all Californians
Want
to whitewash all the walls? Let's catch a wind
from Mexico
Let's shake off the sand
Let's assume that the power is in our
hands
And the scenery is changing
Just as we'd planned
But
we don't like the new arrangement ALL
THE FRIENDS AND FAMILY THAT MONEY CAN BUY Drink
up baby
Now is your time in the sun
Don't let your dreams be stopped
By
the needs and wants of anyone
Grab the things you like
Create the friends
you need
But when you're old
And your body's been wrecked
And the bankers
Have come to grab the check
Take stock in your chaotic view of the world
Where
money and power
Buy the things that you want Everything
is just out of reach
Everything you want is near
But when the intimation
becomes real
The beauty has been stolen
You must realize that the things
you want
Are always far away But you must
allow
Other people to be good
Love yourself
And others will love you,
too THINGS FALL APART
Why does something so right
Always
fall apart?
Is anything on earth
Ever perfectly built? You
take for granted
The things you have
You think you can repeat
Your good
fortune
But the things that are right
In your life
Are that way for so
many reasons
That are all undefined
And unexplained
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