Re: Outside Up, Inside Down
- From: frndthdevl <frndthdevl@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:32:24 -0700
On Jul 31, 12:20?pm, Olompali4 <olompa...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
False Alarm
The Only Game In Town
Terrapin Station '
Released Late July 1977 on Arista Records.
30 years!
Inspiration, move me brightly
light the song with sense and color,
hold away despair
More than this I will not ask
faced with mysteries dark and vast
statements just seem vain at last
some rise, some fall, some climb
to get to Terrapin
Counting stars by candlelight
all are dim but one is bright:
the spiral light of Venus
rising first and shining best,>From the northwest corner
of a brand-new crescent moon
crickets and cicadas sing
a rare and different tune
Terrapin Station
in the shadow of the moon
Terrapin Station
and I know we'll be there soon
Terrapin - I can't figure out
Terrapin - if it's an end or the beginning
Terrapin - but the train's got its brakes on
and the whistle is screaming: TERRAPIN
While you were gone
these spaces filled with darkness
The obvious was hidden
With nothing to believe in
the compass always points to Terrapin
The sullen wings of fortune beat like rain
You're back in Terrapin for good or ill again
For good or ill again
TERRAPIN
TERRAPIN
TERRAPIN
TERRAPIN
TERRAPIN
TERRAPIN..........
Up these steps beside me climb
To Terrapin and points sublime
Robbed of reason, faith and name
Broken-hearted blind and lame
Slain by doubt, mistaken trust
Abandoned in the rain to rust
Shriveled by the heat of day
Torn to shreds by birds of prey
Shapeless in the fire's glow
Tell me if you think you know
Who it was we were below
Where we've been and where we go
Lilies have the bees to tend them
Grasses have the breeze to bend them
Broken hearts have tears to mend them
Show us stairs, we will ascend them
Stair by stair by stair we climb
Voices hushed to sighs by time
Speak our souls in pantomime
Clear cold bells of winter chime
Pale through this ghostly haze
The dawn of a newborn moon
Illuminates this ancient maze
Of tumbled stones rough hewn
Trust your faith and enter
By paths the heart divines
The sun lies at the center
Through gates of creeping vines
how faint the rays
of former days
in avenues of time--
but it does shine
emblem of sight
pride of the eyes
that shatters shadow
and all of the dark defies
Let the sun rise!
.
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