When time shall slip its cog in place And spin its line of lovely lace Then love and peace come face to face One of these days When sorrow can nowhere
Won't you be a good boy? Listen closely and enjoy All the benefits that getting wisdom brings Give her esteem, she is priceless and supreme She will crown
There must be something else that all of this revolves around I appear so small and barely make a sound Still mysterious these frequencies they draw you
Put down my thoughts in a letter to the president Penciled and packaged with all due respect Elvis commemorative just for effect Never heard back, you
Forgive me if I've been confused Between the means and end I forgot to be a brother and a friend Covered up inside Sometimes it's harder to know I have
Pour the oil on troubled waters Come around, lay down arms Rest between the pure in heart and persecuted Sound alarms to make calm Mend the fence convincing
Well I feel like I have to feel Something good all of the time With most of life I cannot deal But a good feeling I can feel Even though it may not be
Even when it's eggshells, even when it's broken glass Prophet follows the path well, and He has feet that last I saw them carrying crosses and they were
The sun set down behind the trees How quickly did my skin Sense the chill upon the breeze And I'm uneasy, the night surrounds me As dusk ushers out the
I have a plan for you It will only take a lifetime to see through I'll show you where to start And the most that it can cost will be your heart Give
Flying high with the crowd at night We float on unseen fuel Each one sails, a gossamer sphere Our course unwinds like thread from a spool What's it like
Growing more uneasy With every question asked It seems You're jealous of my interests And the graven things I've cast Waking resolutions Of twenty years
So he sat behind his natural defenses And there he wrestled with the song He heard his name in every line, his life in every measure Faced with feelings
If I were a tape recorder, would you take me in your pack? You could say anything, I would play it back If we took the beach side down to where the boardwalk
To test this gold for it's worth Is the same as testing me And the fire burns easily today The net is the good that's left After the metal is refined
You hung the hopes of a world On a shining star Ready to give just a glimpse A little bit of who You are When the heavens wink On a midnight clear Takes
Been to 48 states and a few different worlds Beheld the blind tour guide and a pig wearing pearls I've seen grace under foot people fall in the street
I have a plan for you It will only take a lifetime to see through I?ll show you where to start And the most that it can cost will be your heart Give me
