Swollen, huge , and extraordinary
You swallow up the banks around you
Flooding over the sides
It's such an amazing scene
Sheets of rain coming down
Filling, filling, filling you up
Oh don't flood
Don't come up to the egdes of society
River your natures magnificent wonder

You make me smile, I melt when your around
I feel comfortable, and warm
Sometimes I wish you would stay
Life doesn't work like that though

My mother taught me purple
Although she never wore it.
Wash-grey was her circle,
The tenement her orbit.

My mother taught me golden
And held me up to see it,
Above the broken moldings,
Beyond the filthy street.

My mother reached for beauty
And for its lack she died,
Who knew so much of duty
She could not teach me pride.

The seasons change 
Leaves change 
And people change 
The seasons go from hot to cold
Leaves go from green to gold 
People go from nice to mean
All in the blink of an eye
You miss the season when it's gone
You miss the leaves when there gone 
You miss the people when there gone

The stop light goes green yellow red, green yellow red.
It's like life. Go pause stop, go pause stop
Green and go green and go. 
Oh how life rides a road 
Green for go green for go
Click click click like a code
Yellow and pause yellow and pause
Life is an obstacle
Yellow for pause yellow for pause
Take time to smell the rose
Red and stop red and stop
Life is treacherous
Red for stop red for stop
Sometimes we need someone to catch us 
The stop light will always go green yellow red, green yellow red
And life will always go go pause stop, go pause stop 
But I will always be there to go pause and stop at and stop light for you