Lyrical @ MindSay

Something's in the air tonight

I feel it underneath my skin

There's no way to put it right

And time is wearing thin

Phone call invitations ring

Ask to come and see the show

But it's a picture I've already seen

A storyline I already know

 

So long ago.......It was the best mistake

 

Someone's crying out tonight

Lover's dreams have come and gone

Throwing reason out of sight

Left behind they're running on

I hear your voice across the line

Could there be another chance

But I am in this frame of mind

And walk away without a glance

 

So long ago......It was the best mistake

 

Somewhere in the grip of my fingers

Is a note with your address

How the memories always linger

But I am not impressed

Hidden underneath the doorway

Letters from the other side

Turns into another's life story

Dreams we thought we had to find

 

So long ago......You were the best mistake.

 

BDS 1997

Most everyone is asleep now

With dreams well on the way

Why is it that tonight keeps me on guard?

For in times past I've slept like a baby

Dreaming too of the morrows day

But now I'm kept from slumber

By something inside my heart

 

And it's calling me with urgency

To watch as well as pray

And as long as night will tarry

With attention I must wait

For in an hour not known to any

Will come the break of day

And the restlessness of the night

Will be done away

 

There's a growing tension inside me

To wake the neighborhood

Though many would scorn the hour being so late

But still I know I must take the risk

Of being misunderstood

For the darkness of night holds evil

All the same when you're awake

 

And it's calling me in emergency

To sound alarm to stand

To say that God is calling us

To awaken while we can

For in an hour not known to no one

Night will be destroyed by day

And the evil deeds of the night will be done away

 

Hey restless can you sleep tonight?

Something's going wrong got to make it right

Wake up now

Before you sleep your life away.

 

Hey restless can you sleep tonight?

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's so quiet at night there's not a sound

The silence away from the city

The only thing maybe heard is a train

Coming through this little town

 

Everyone to their room try a wink or two

Dawn awakens for another day

Then the sounds echo through like a train

Coming through this little town

 

Love has come and promised it would stay

Tomorrow could be no more

We can stay another day

Hold me tightly whisper me of your love

Tomorrow may be no more

We can stay another day

 

When I am home resting my bones

Finding Peace and some feeling

Pause in the sound the silence of mood

In this little town

 

At the end of the day think of the sounds

Oh the songs you could play

All you need to hear

Distance of fears

In this little town

 

Come on let's stay another day

Eyes that have ach'd with Sorrow!  Ye shall weep

Tears of doubt-mingled joy, like theirs who start

From Precipices of distemper'd sleep

On which the fierce-eyed Fiends their revels keep,

And see the rising Sun, and feel it dart

New rays of pleasance trembling to the heart.

_{--COLERIDGE, Pantisocracy}

 

I realize I do not know anyone.  I do not even know me.

 

When will it be okay to have a belief filled with doubt but still have it as belief, maybe frayed, maybe doubt-bitten, but there, and enough? it would be unpredictable but it would feel right. as Coleridge said, to go"[where] careless step may stray, And dancing to the moonlight roundelay."

 

I would have had each day be new, each face be new, but really the same face.  I would have been scared and thrilled.  I would have doubted and I would have been sure.

 

I asked days and days ago,

When will you help me touch the world?

 

I do not recognize anyone here.

 

This does not even make sense.