light 2. by the riverside

It's high time I made up my mind

Start this story with fire and singing blood

And reeling, reel it in on a cloudy night

'Cause there's a light on and I cannot see

Through the prism of the window screen

And I do not know what I want from you

And I do not know what I want from me

This strange significance, we feel it in our bones

We draw it to our homes and we play out our roles

'Cause there's a hole in the wall

Through which you can see nothing at all

But whirlwinds and fireballs and a sprawling

Cityscape of shining stars and breaking hearts

We were skipping stones off each other

By the riverside, twisted with lives

Just to hear the music playing in each other's minds

'Cause there's a light on and I cannot see

For the fog that's wrapping inside of me

And the thunderstorms that never clear

From the back of this island shrouded in fear

We were tossing stones into the water

Watching the rings of our gravity

Pull the spiders below the surface

'Cause where there's a light on, I cannot see

Through the core of you or the core of me

And the flickering fires of the TV screen

Are the coughing fits of a dying dream

It's past time I made up my mind

Put the pen to the page and pour out the lines

Casting stones to sink and resonate

In ripples of shimmering light.