Life: Here & Now II

Once in a while on a Saturday night When the air is cool and the moon is bright Everyone feels like doing the same -- Headin on over to Calamity Jane's

she backs up a bit when he comes around like a mail carrier avoiding a bark he listens hard for the incriminating sounds like a blind man watching the dark

doesn't it seem like yesterday? your hair hung straight and mine was long

While all the rest are singing carols, With wan smiles  Scotch-taped on Watching hour and hours of Farrell And the Clauses and elves falling down We're sitting at sunset exhausted from all the crazy run-around stress

deep within me things I hold hold onto me standing poised ready to duck the coming cleanse This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License

there, where the night sky comes quickly upon the mountains there, where the songs of Los Compesinos come across the border there she writes poems of love lost epic tales of the heart without a hero This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License

cold, just like the day before, winter is this, nothing more a reason to stay always indoors until you asked me out to play now, like every other time that question makes me smile watch the dancing in your eyes as you lean to hear what I'll say

just down the road where the pavement ends that's where the real adventure is By the big red house with a tin-roof shed Risking your life, maybe waking up dead

scrabble dabble scrabble dabble wordily do tiling verbs adjectives too more gets said than when I'm talkin it's true when I scrabble dabble scrabble dabble in Scrabble with you This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License

along the meridian find the line that makes me whole that reveals the sign that makes me know all that can be mine This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License

to know to be known to know I am known by you to love to be loved to love how I am loved by you there's nothing beyond your reach nothing too far to hold and all that you let me see are beyond what I have known to hear to be heard to hear the sound of me and you This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License

All this time we should have seen it So many days, so many ways it was there Didn't know it till now Wasn't sure till today But now that I do, I won't forget it Gonna hold on to this, gonna dare

Was there any doubt That this is where things are headed? Was there any doubt That this was the way to go? yeah, it's all coming down it all resolves it all comes to a place and a point it's all coming down like fog dissolves it finally has a taste and it's going to all come down to this This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License

right away I think I knew I might say you knew it too right away, it was right, right away

Looking at the world on a TV screen See all the desperate people Hear all their troubles re-told Sounds like a song of mine Here we are living on the edge On the edge, all the time