As darkness' brush strokes creamy clouds
And beckons me a chill reminder,
Are they passing over my life's dry socket?
“It looks like a storm is coming.”
I believe her and do not await the downpour
I beat it with the wind at my back
to where the devil has no home
Race against the tide of changing winds
No reason to hide but to begin
(“Let me tell
you 'bout a dream
You know I saw her in a dream
You know I saw her in a dream
Oh, St. Charles sings
Sings about love
St. Charles, tell me tonight
Won't you tell me 'bout love
You know I saw her in a dream)
Sings about love
St. Charles, tell me tonight
Won't you tell me 'bout love
You know I saw her in a dream)
'Twould be worse than a wet-nurse
Milking a screaming
storm
Squeezed from
ominous southbound
Absorbed into the
parched brick path
Darkening sunny ground by tropical trees
That feel the breeze
and bend in respect
Rather than snap, forth
and back.
Then she warned me and I return
Towards louder the beat of
her heart
(“There was China, in her eyes
In a silk and velvet disguise
She was movin' like a lady
Lookin' like a dragon princess
She was walkin' by the river
Rollin' in a rhythm of love
I never felt like this before”)
She moves me and I move
No sense in staying
to warn strangers
Of the danger in
taking disinterested parts
Not in the interest
of loving workers
I feel the
temperature drop around the river
See the riders
heading wrong upstream
Donning their
ponchos without a dream
Only she interests
me
And I hurry home to be
(“Oh, St. Charles sings
Sings about love
St. Charles, tell me tonight
Won't you tell me 'bout love
You know I saw her in a dream.
She is the storm bringer,
The storm changer.”)
The storm changer.”)
I will “Tie myself down to the main mast
Like Ulysses in the water storm
Winds comin' down the main line
Tie myself down to the main mast
Tie it down with love.”
I feel it, “stormin',” I feel it coming,
I can feel it now, “stormin'”
I feel it coming, “stormin'”
From the safety of our home.
Like Ulysses in the water storm
Winds comin' down the main line
Tie myself down to the main mast
Tie it down with love.”
I feel it, “stormin',” I feel it coming,
I can feel it now, “stormin'”
I feel it coming, “stormin'”
From the safety of our home.
(Thank you,
Jefferson Starship)
March 3, 2019
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