Someone you saw stretched sleeping on the sand Five withered violets cradled in his hand His dreams are so loud calling in your ear The yellow snake coils
This moment is different from any before it and this moment is different it's now And if I don't kiss you That kiss is untasted I'll never no never
Not with the lips of skin nor yet with the lips of dark snow But let the white dove sing Of the body of life of the lover whose love is complete Hold
Arise, arise and follow me And follow me as best you can Come follow me, my measured dance Come see my circus, come dice with chance Now you are coming
Everybody knows good times Everybody knows tears that fall You and me had something higher than just good times Something else that I just can't find
The messengers with sharpened heels Flew backwards into whose galloping arms And the impassioned Phoenix Drawls a sad goodnight to fiction's tomb Then
Papa would take me to the park to see the swans By hansom cab trotting so high Holding his hand to see the swans Hissing louder than rustling dresses
Just another rusty brother Seeing his old role replayed Looking in the world like a broken mirror Seeing his old face displayed They come and go, come
Captured by Hitler with Oliver Twist in the tower Guards say, "Here's pens and paper, just sit down and work for an hour" Oh, goodness, how can we escape
We're all still here, no one has gone away Waiting, acting much too well and procrastinating The cross of the earth, the four winds point them Body to
When I was born I had no head My eye was single and my body was filled with light And the light that I was, was the light that I saw by And the light
All around this wide country the winter it has now begun Now is the time to slip away from the California sun To a place where a man can be free as the
Gather round friends and I'll show you what I made Something in my bag that'll surprise you all It's a secret, don't push, I'm not ready Something to
I'm calling to you my cosmic boy For I want to say hello And I see you smile, your shining joy Ah, you look so high, you look so high And I shall dance
I have a ship both sleek and fine Sleek and fine I point her bows wherever I will The Seven Seas they all are mine I call the winds (I call the winds
The natural cards revolve ever changing Seeded elsewhere planted in the garden Fair grow trees, grow trees Tongues of the sheer wind Setting you foot
My cousin has great changes coming One day he'll wake with wings My cousin has great changes coming One day he'll wake with wings Cousin caterpillar
night I heard above me a trembling I looked up, it was a little cloud From which a gold string was dangling You know, I gave the string a little pull
