Since Grazed Lyrics

eleventh dream day / since grazed lyrics  (All lyrics by Rick Rizzo, except A Wish Too Far, Janet Bean) 2020

Since Grazed

No sleep in the dunes

Among rotting ruins

The morning too soon, at least there’s a breeze

But back on the street

A much tougher feat

The friends and elites intensify the degrees

I’m feeling so blessed

I needed the rest

I’ve lately regressed, but the tones are unphased

The frequency hums

Where are my old chums?

The scattered alumns, not cut but since grazed

Cracks in my Smile

My mistakes fly in the face of reason

I don’t know why I can’t fill in the cracks

Cracks in my smile, I know

It makes no sense

Face to face I’m out of place and time

I go straight back to where I can’t comply

I crack a smile, I know

It isn’t right

I can float above us all and disappear

Gravity will pull me back thank god

I love you more, than you know

The cracks in my smile

The fissures widen I rely on sanity

I can’t resist what takes me to the edge

I crack a smile 

I know how to bring it back

Because I love you more

Than you know

The cracks in my smile

I Just Got Home (in Time to Say Goodbye)

I’m missing you already

We barely got to talk

The space between us may have shrunk

But it’s still too far to walk 

The shortest distance may not be

A straight line

And the brightest star that you can see

Is not always a sign

I just got home in time

I just got home in time

In time to say goodbye

I guess that I just missed you

But it’s so much more than that 

I chased the windmills down the road

Now I don’t know where I’m at

I’m hoping that my message finds you

Before you go to sleep

I’m watching all the falling stars 

And the river’s edge willows weep

I just got home in time

I just got home in time 

In time to say goodbye 

Tyrian Purple

I’ve been laid off

I’ve been paid off

I’ve been grounded

I’ve been surrounded

I have floundered

the warnings sounded

The worst unbounded

I’m left astounded 

But my county’s seated

I’m undefeated

My forehead’s beaded

no crutch is needed

The garden’s weeded

The lawn is seeded

but yet I’m pleading

Maybe I’m just greedy

I want to wear the Tyrian Purple

I want to feel the power 

Bathed in moonlight

and pulled into the night

The brothers and sisters

get what the gist is

got with the mystic

spun the pandemic

flamed all the fans 

blamed all the bans

kicked all the cans

damned all the damned

I want to wear the Tyrian Purple

I want to feel the power

bathed in moonlight

And pulled into the night

Yves Klein Blues

Yves Klein had the blues

Halley had his comet

All I want from you

Is to be known as your other

So Sousa hold the phone

Baby make me your own

Catherine hold your wheel

Munchausen quit your grousin’

All I want to feel 

Is to be known as your other

So like Windsor with his cravat

Baby let’s tie the knot

Bernoulli you lifted more than just some airplane’s wings

You made me sing

Gallup take a poll

And Hammond play your organ

I just want to be whole

To be known as your other

Nabokov had his butterflies 

Just make me your guy

Bernoulli you lifted more than just some airplane’s wings

You made me sing

Yves Klein had the blues

Halley had his comet

All I want from you

Is to be known as your other

Nothing’s Ever Lost

Nothing’s Ever Lost

things just disappear

An echo in your ear

that never fades

Nothing’s Ever Lost

like a kiss upon your lips

Or when you lose your grip

and walk away

Nothing’s ever really lost 

Nothing’s Ever Lost

I’ll see you in my dreams

Although the plot may seem

Too thick to understand

Nothing’s ever really lost

It’s not time to panic now

My patience will allow

You will come back to me

I don’t know what to say 

except I know that I can wait

I stumble but i always find

Those things I left behind

Nothing’s ever really lost

Take Care

Take care of me

And I’ll take care of you

Take care of me

And I’ll take care of you

Black ice formed sometime in the night

Waiting on the road in a starless sky

You Can Dance, you can dance, on the radio played

A car spun out, contradictions laid

It’s just like me to dislocate

evaporate and dissipate

But just like these forgotten fields

you needn’t wonder what I will yield

Take care of me

And I’ll take care of you

Take care of me

And I’ll take care of you

It’s better when we do

The windmills pass and the stillness reveals

The coming storm and what we feel

So rolling thunder, let roll away

The choice was never not to stay

Take care of me

And I’ll take care of you

Take care of me

And I’ll take care of you

It’s better when we do

Matter

In the connection of things something was frayed

Lost souls and apparitions could not be contained

There were rusted machines and stalled limousines

In the dark web of things there was a small patch of green

The car veered off the bridge and plunged into the river

A bubble rose to the surface, a message delivered 

Way down in the depths it was icily calm

As he waited for the pressure to even there was no cause for alarm

There were rusted machines and old limousines

The sun cut through the surface and found a small patch of green

What’s the matter with you, did you not see the light bloom?

Look Out Below

Gravity you let me down 

Darkness you forgot me

I could not see the steps ahead

 the floor came up behind

The fatal stairs beneath my feet

Michael came before me

He waits to greet me one more time

Be steady he’s imploring

Look Out below, look out below

Believe, believe in what you know

Look out below, look out below

A premonition, less a dream

Don’t self-fulfill your prophecy

A hand upon the steel rail

May be all you need

Look Out below, look out below

Believe, believe in what you know

Look out below, look out below

Take care, beware

A Case to Carry On

The turkey buzzards overhead

tell me that I’ve been left for dead

To make a case to carry on

To drone or not to drone I think

We ponder as we sip our drinks

And make a case to carry on

Cut off your nose to spite your face

Who thought of that must have had a case

A case, a case to carry on

Leave on a jet plane tears on my face

No one’s gonna give up any space

For a case, a case to carry on

I’ve got twenty ways to Sunday

I’ve got a dozen ways to fail

I always make it through to Monday

I find a way, a way to fill the sail

It gets so hard, so hard to win

You learn to take it on the chin

To make a case to carry on

I thought this day would never come

When we would sing it out as one

And make a case to carry on

To make a case to carry on.

A WISH TOO FAR

A clover or a coin

A pebble or a grape

A penny or a lightning strike

I have a wish that I wish

to make tonight 

A candle blown out

A dandelion blown

Seven waves jumped

I have a kite to fly above

a grave tonight

Ramcharitmanas 

Held in my left hand

A red thread, a black thread 

My eyelash found by my love

held to my lips

Wishing stones and honey

Seven hundred eighty-six

an ax thrown a wishbone snapped 

a length of it to decide

who gets their wish

A wish too far

Take all these wishing things

And throw them in a pot

Stir them with a feather 

And then you’ll see what it is that you have got or maybe not. 

Every Time This Day it Rains

Got up at ten, that was kind of late

Made some breakfast, cleared some plates

I wondered aloud what the hell am I doing

Time to make a plan, get something brewing

Every Time This Day it Rains

Today was the day the Sandhill Cranes

Flew overhead on the way to the plains

They made a racket a glorious sound

They beat their ancient wings until the rain came down

Every Time This Day it Rains

I’m moving along, I’m making some noise

Got things to shout I’m making a choice

Time to make a racket, stop using my brain

I know I’m headed home on the sandhill exchange

Every Time This Day it Rains