Salt Shaker

06 August 2008

10:34


and I shook up your 
Salt Shaker


and swallowed it somehow
and all the memories 
are like why you try 


vanished 
in by now


and the circles that we play
well 


I needed more to start 


I found some behind the shed and 
began to turn some more
so there I was again looking
into the past


so clear
and isn't it like that 


where we get a glimpse
of what happened then
it seems so clear right now


but the pain of learning truths
is always forged with heat


so walk with me again
and we will begin a new


ring 
a ring of life
that we step into and maybe 


do it righ
and even if we don't 
we will have done something right


like walking in the wind 
late that summer night 


and the mother of the playing cards
has vanished 
it quite seems


from when I wake up in the morning
I don't have the script or scenes.


and do what one will is 
all I ever need


for life today is beautiful 
if you let go of the game


a new one I am always looking for 
a new one to walk with me
a new day upon us
a new play to dream 
a new friend 
a new beat
a time I haven't known
an open book an open heart
that does't judge my ways 
I have always wanted this
and needed it somehow


but where to go and look around
left me in sorrow


but now I know it’s always here 
at my feet and loves me


till I’m gone- the silence of
my breath I know takes me
as I am


so today we start again and
let it be like this
for when the tables turn


I watch it go around and
land where it will


doesn’t matter anymore


for I know this well
right now that it could 
be both heaven and hell.


listen to me good 
listen to me well


I’m with you every step
and wish you only well


and trust in this and you will
know


the fields they listen too
and the trees and grass and water
they are all in tune


and the weather it always knows
which way to blow


just like Jesus said
I'll take you there
just follow me and we will know the truth as it is told 


it's older than all of us 
and rises to the top


and sits up there proud like that 
like sittin' on a rock


so listen to me
listen well
I wish you only good


the troubles that you feel right now are hidden 
in your head and 
letting them out 
to us 
is the only way a head


and do this now 
and live at peace 
is what I say to you today and 


do this 
with a heavy heart
and you will find some bliss


and heaven knows 
you are full of love 
and much more to give


so do with this and do with that
and join us if you will 
so troubles from the past 
will blow like Daffodills


and when the seasons' change
again like today it feels 
like that


althought August 6th 
I'm already in the fall


and I could tell you more
but I know better now


that all I dream it’s a slow
slow ride to find 
a better place


but patience is a virtue
we know 
we hear that all the time


but try and live it 
is always harder from inside


I let you down
once before 
I’m sure I’ll do it again


this is my humanness and I can do that very well


much more than that 
is not what I'm prepared to tell


my ways and means 
selfish at times 
are paved with fear I know


but travel down this thought
this path 
and you will find you know
that doing more sometimes
is hard and difficult to score


so put away your playing cards and 
talley sheet with it too
for we are living proof that 
natures not keeping score


so stop the days of wishing more
of you and me and him and others
that you think of too


for they are also proof
and kind 
as you think you are


the judgement is always there
to watch over you and me with dispair


and I once told you this and 
told you so many times like that 


what you give is equal to 
what you get


drop your shell
drop your face that you wear so well 
and walk with God


and walk it proud 
for you’ve got nothing left to tell
that isn’t true 


that is not 
quite for you


we have all known this 
from the start


but boy oh boy 
have we been told what’s not true