The question really still remains Unanswered through the steps of time Who controls the pouring rains And who the sacred sun sublime And surely after we have gone A thousand years without a sound The question will be asked again Without an answer to be found
To say I missed her wouldn’t quite compare To how it felt to Love her from afar ‘Tis but to call a purple diamond rare Or say the sun is but a faded star For every night I see her in my sleep Where dreams can turn the darkness into light And bring to life…
I stumbled sadly to the bank And watched the waters trickle by My eyes were fixed, my face was blank My mind was tired of wondering why The clouds were slowly closing in And thunder only steps behind The rain would soon pour down within And flood the rivers of my mind But as the…
I hope that I find strength enough and time When all my days of weariness have passed To lift a tired hand and put to rhyme A wisdom even I could not outlast: Though longed for in the eager hearts of men And searched for in the distant skies above Eternity is not the journey’s…
From the moment we open our eyes To the fall of the last ray of sun We race through this life in disguise To look back on the places we’ve run But soon will all understand When age has made everything clear That life is more precious at hand Than watched through a rear-view mirror
I’m just a man with sore tattoos That decorate my skin And each one burns a separate fuse That leads to pain within And I have tried to hide away The ink that I reveal Succeeding only to delay The hurt that I conceal But maybe if I just give in The memories will cease…
I know until the day I die I never will have beat the clock But still I ask without reply “Why must you ever tick and tock” And all the while age has come To gloat upon my wrinkled skin That life will quickly death become And cleanse the world of my sin
With locks of every auburn sun Setting in the western sky Her beauty flows as rivers run To greet the Lillies in July And all the sunlight in the land Reaching far across the skies Seems to rest on every strand And swim the oceans of her eyes And like a single summer’s day Sent…
Let’s go down to the water’s edge And dip our toes in youth And hold each other’s hand and pledge To speak the honest truth About our lives and where they went And all the wasted time And all the world’s wonderment That passed us in our prime And maybe at the water’s edge We’ll…
The days, oh how they come so fast And quickly flutter to the past Where all that visited before Are memories and nothing more Where dreams are held and secrets kept Where Love is lost and tears are wept Where all the moments we invest Are gathered up and laid to rest