Electrical Storm: Side I
INTRODUCTION
GLORIA
SKY BLUE
SO SOON
JUST LOVE
ELECTRICAL STORM
Gloria
When I met you, oh I let you
Down and down some more
When I said those stupid things and watched you disappear across the floor
In the party, with those people
There was a hole where you had stood
Oh, in hindsight, don’t you always, don’t you always look so good
I’ll just sit here,
Rocking, rocking in my easy chair
I’ll just sit here,
Rocking, rocking in my easy chair
I’ll just sit here,
Rocking, rocking in my easy chair
Remembering that fateful night that I blew my chance with her
Gloria!
I’m not asking, I’m not begging, I’m hoping for another try
Cause you’ll never look half as beautiful then as you do now
Oh, I sidestep and I backslide and I’m hanging on the edge of the creek
Oh, I’d rather have those memories than a life for you to tire of me
Sky Blue
The world turns, but Lord it feels so slow
One spark lights, another one loses the glow
I’ve got all these questions, Lord I know
I’m not the only one
I sit on the porch step and wait for the morning sun to come
Why is the sky blue?
Why is the sea salt?
What’s wrong with Caillou?
I wonder what he’s got?
Is what makes us human, that we know that we do not know?
This terrible chasm, that wise men call the soul
Neil Degrasse Tyson won't you come sit with me for a while
Might not understand, but I’ll do my best and just smile
So Soon
Nourished and loved and honey you grew
You traveled the world and honey you bloomed
Your petals fell softly that sunny afternoon
Oh , so softly, so sweetly, so soon
You wake up and you don’t feel right
You got a million friends but you got no likes
You’re hanging round under neon lights
I don’t know your kind, but I like you type
And you’re a long way
A long way
A long way
From where you wanna be
I know your every move
I thought it was well understood
That I needed you, you needed me too
So softly, so sweetly, so soon
Just Love
Getting old don't bother me none
These hands of time
Are now bleached by the sun
I miss my friends
I'll say that much
I see my friends through the corridors of time
Linoleum floors and those parallel lines
Reaching now forever until they touch
I see your kids as old as we were then
I hope you take them to the places we played
I'm older than your father now
In this edition of myself
The starry plough blinked above your house
In perfect poise, horizontally right
It’s at a different angle now
It's me that's changed
Do you see the world as we painted it then?
In black and white?
Or the full spectrum?
Are you hardened by experience
Or are you softened by love?
Electrical Storm
I’ve never seen foreshadowing like I see it in your eyes
I know how the clouds roll across your skies
I’ve knocked on all the letterboxes
I’ve rapped on every door
I’ll see you high above on those miss-numbered floors
Now I’m falling like a teardrop from the sky
Disappearing ‘cause I’m falling from so high
Will you be with me even though we’re bound to lose?
Will you be with me, though I’ve been away from you?
I cast away the bits and bursts of all I long to keep
Alone, I walk these darkened streets
I find you in the books I read
That stranger’s got your walk
You’re the voice inside my head
I can’t want it to stop
Oh, I’ll return to you one day
Maybe not in this earthly form
Maybe in a series of dreams
Or in an electrical storm
And you won’t want for shelter
And you won’t want for love
When you become the substance of what I’m dreaming of
Electrical Storm: Side II
ELEMENTAL BABY
STAY WITH ME
DON’T FIGHT IT
BEING BORN
HOMEWARD BOUND
Elemental Baby
We started strong and grew in time
Your path and mine were intertwined
You loved what I loved and you knew that I loved you true
I remember how you looked at me
And lay down your heart in mine to keep
But even then in the vigor of youth, I should’ve felt it’s weight
Oh, when the nights are long
I dream the dream, I dream of you
Oh, when the nights are long
It’s hard to mend what cracks there are
When you defend and duck and spar
Any fissures or fractures that threaten the foundation of you
Oh, the hourglass of life is half way full
You can aim your arrows and actions to be cruel
Or you can lay down your sword and shield and allow yourself to be loved
They say I’m sentimental baby
They say boy you gotta move along
But I say it’s elemental baby
‘cause you cry every time that you hear my song
Daylight left and darkness followed
All my hopes and dreams well they got shattered
By that great big dusty monster that we all call time
And all the things that I thought mattered
They either disappeared or scattered
Even my eyes, even my eyes seem to lose their shine
Stay With Me
Oh, come with me
I’ll make you glad you did
The things that make you frightened
I make you forget
Cause on the hill
We all have to climb
I could use a hand
Don’t gotta be truthful
Don’t gotta be kind
Do gotta call me sweetheart
You just gotta be mine
Cause on the hill
We all have to climb
I could use a hand
Look over yonder
Oh, can’t you see
The hidden wonders
That await for you and me
Oh, honey baby
I’ll help you climb
That highest hill
Oh, come with me
I’ll make you glad you did
The things that make you happy
I make you relive
Oh, honey baby
I’ll help you climb that highest hill
Don’t Fight It
When you fall in love, like so many times before
You just met that girl, but your whole world will fall
If she leaves your sight for a second or more
Don’t fight it, don’t fight it, feel it
When you look around and she’s gone from your sight
Don’t be alarmed, she just turned out the light
Her silhouette slips by, like a ship in the night
Don’t fight it, don’t fight it, feel it
Oh, I’ve been in love and the girls all indifferent
I’ve been in and out of love in just one day
Now I’m in love, but this time it’s different
It’s been 25 minutes and I still feel that way
I wrote you poems that only I would read
Carved both our names and a heart up on the tree
Hoping that you’d read it, if only in a dream
Don’t fight it, don’t fight it, feel it
Now you’re alone and only memories remain
It’s ok to be frightened, it’s ok to be afraid
Cause try as you may, all those memories will fade
So fight, fight it, feel it
Homeward Bound
Been up and down this storied country
I’ve seen a million smiles
I’m rolling down the blacktop baby
Yeah, I’m counting down the miles
And I pray that you’ve waited on me
Like I pray for your warm embrace
I had a dream that the devil warned me
Better take your time
Way up north where the frostbite warmed me
On the Continental divide
Where the wind blew through me
Just like a dagger from your eyes
And I woke to find the nightmare gone
Now I’m homeward bound but unbound
Yeah, I’m homeward bound but unbound
Seen the grassy plaines
The open prairie
The ever-present sky
The dust clouds, the tumbling weeds
I heard an eagle cry
And I hope that my absence caused you sorrow
And that my return is fit for Galilee
I’ve filled this car with a thousand treasures
And they’re all addressed to you
Charms and trinkets from across the nation
From Nazareth to Kalamazoo
And they’re packed with the loving care and attention
As one of them French men that must work at the Louvre
Now I’m homeward bound but unbound
Yeah, I’m homeward bound but unbound
I’m feeling tense on this final furlong
I can see your city lights
I’m slowing down ’til I’m going twenty
And I somersault inside
Now my paranoia’s gaining speed
Is it possible, could you have forgotten me?
It couldn’t be, no it wouldn’t happen
You can’t dampen my mood
I’ve dreamed this dream, from behind this wheel
I know it’s gonna come true
Now I see your silhouette, and it’s outlined by the lights
And I’m happily swallowed by your guile
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