We were without disguise

We were without disguise

And our hearts unguarded

In the midst of it not

Knowing when it started

Together all these years

It seems like yesterday

The perfect patina

The perfect molded clay

Unable to escape

Unable to escape

The ho-hum keeps humming

Where are the replacements

To keep this world running

Tired of the tedious

And work has just begun

No sense of victory

No jubilation won

No more friction trying

No more friction trying

Ceasing the resistance

Giving in, giving up

This constant persistence

Discarding dreams that waft

And never come to be

Hard to embrace ideas

Needing reality

Waiting to turn corners

Waiting to turn corners

Left to idle in place

The inevitable

At a slow, steady pace

Candles burning longer

Flicker but won't blow out

Echoes keep returning

In whispers from a shout

This is the gift I give

This is the gift I give

To myself, none other

It can’t be received or

Enjoyed by another

It’s wrapping paper, time

And patience made the box

Inside, full exemption

And keys to all the locks

Airplanes leave a scratch while

Airplanes leave a scratch while

The clouds are still as stone

My shadow as big as

A tree that stands alone

Watching the sun come up

The robins on the ground

Here at the start of day

The World has spun around

Again the blue, the blue

Again the blue, the blue
Stretching from end to end
The clouds without linings
The silver gone again

Searching for the yellow
That's absent in the scope
Blanketed by the blue
Surrendering all hope