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The Dance of Time

from Lukewarm Songs by My Imaginary Folk Singer

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lyrics

Would you care to step inside
The tangle of my twisted mind?
Perchance to find that all is fine,
Sepia tinted memories echoing in time.

And if time should dance it’s minuet
Down the pathways that time cannot forget,
By the sextant & the hourglass our journeys have been set,
Our journeys into sadness…our journeys of regret.
And time that is lost shall not be regained…
splintered light upon a fractured window pane.

A gentle wind that drifts between crumbling spires,
A balding Priest cycles on balding tyres,
A fragment of melody an elegy of desire…
Plucked at by nimble fingers on an ancient lyre.

The sarabande of the tumbling leaves
Twisting on the lilting breeze,
Tangled wood & tangled trees,
A vision, an image…of Mephistopheles.
The dust of ages long since past,
Dances in rays through frosted glass.

Approaching dusk & pale lamplight,
A school of swallows in acrobatic flight,
A time withered poet with failing sight,
His dreams, his fears…of endless night.

Oh the dance of time has danced on by,
Across the pale & wrinkled sky,
A leaf, a flower a kiss goodbye…
The shattering of hope in a final sigh…

Amen.

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from Lukewarm Songs, released September 3, 2014

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