A Simple Song
lyrics and music by RDO
I heard Tom in the open. I heard him tapping keys and tapping time.
We danced in the darkness. Swirling crazies loving lies.
Hold her hand like she's the reason you hold anything at all.
In the morning we can fall in love with all that we recall.
Up the hill is the graveyard, where the city lights fade into black.
The temple stood watching as we turned our faces to the past.
My dear Michael, don't forget me when I'm ninety-nine years old.
We shall sparkle when we crumble into naught but dust and gold.
Shout out your only prayer. Love something if you dare. Sometimes this world is so beautiful.
I've not been so tired as I was when you finally went home.
I sat in the hallway tasting your lips upon my own.
I have tried, but can't decipher, what you meant when we lost touch.
Now I'm content to think the same moon watches down on both of us.
I slept right through the morning of the twenty-fifth time I was born.
Mother was patient, having never seen this day before.
I don't know how you can stand me when I'm selfish and reserved.
All the treasures of the world could never match what you deserve.
Now I'm walking to Broadway. Now I'm restless good ol' boys in June.
Now I am the AM playing some ancient lover's tune.
I am the moment when our hero turns and runs back to find her.
I am what we will be, all we are, and everything we were.
Shout out your only prayer. Love something if you dare. Sometimes this world is so beautiful.