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
Everybody wants to be The light upon another’s face Bringing life to all they see With one beloved sweet embrace And all have yearned to be the star That shines in someone else’s sky The beauty touching from afar And twinkling in another’s eye But giving all your Love to one Never really quite compares…
Oh sea, thou are a friend to me Though seldom do I visit thee And though the times we share are few My heart is always lost in you Dreaming of a sky so clear The sunlight almost draws a tear And on the breeze that passes by My troubles vanish with a sigh So…
What pain does now adorn thy brow What sadness troubles thee Reveal it now, and this I vow Your secret’s safe with me So name the fear that brought thy tear And tore your world apart And I’ll be near, with ardent ear To offer thee my heart