Everything that we hold dear -
Destroys us.

We keep holding on.

sometimes I wonder
    why I can do it
so dress me up,
    my dear man
paint on my smile
    draw my dress
I guess tomorrow won't matter
    if you keep drawing my dress
    if you keep painting my smile

you can cover me
    with your sorrows
I'll soak them up
    with my cloth
so everything goes away
    hopefully I'll make everything
disappear into the cloth I own
    so maybe we can be happy
if I hope and dream hard enough

Beyond the blurred and blank images
Or a thousand faces like yours
In my dreams I never lose myself
Finding my way to your door

I don't use a map or a compass
I don't need manmade directions
Because of your soul I follow a guide--
A light of constellations

Even if I can't see you
Even if I lose my sight
The heart can only truly see what the eyes don't:
That it's better to love you in the night

as I step into this world
the world in which I live
the carpet that's beneath my feet
pine needles and spongy grass slightly give

welcome me much more
than any Persian rug would dare
as freedom's taste that's ever sweet
permeates the mornings air

who could beg for eyes to see
who would dare need ears to hear
when this massive feeling afforded me
comes in oh so clear

how many bridges
must you burn
before a lesson
is ever learned

how deep the river
how wide the stream
how far the gap
that's in-between

are you prepared
to swim to shore
if the burning bridge
is all you know

will you take with you
the innocent
will you turn your back
on a drowning man

how many times
must it burn down
with no concern
for those around

what if we could write on the stars
the way we write with paper and pen?
in that case,
i would be writing love letters every night
for a pretty soul too far away.
i'd point my finger at the sky
and trace it delicately,
then you would go outside at night
the evening breeze would whisper "look up!"
and the constellations would tell of the love
an admirer sends to you by cosmic delivery
across distances of time and reality,
from a world much different from yours.