Balmy evenings.
Going downtown on a midnight train
I had never seen such a beautiful sight
Satan, laughing, the creeps inside
Like a dream when one awakes
Like the moon when the morning breaks
Where the shadow falls the deepest
By night I’ll keep them guessing
That I am the one that died
You’ve got to travel away
The thousand years that swept away
I caught it as it came
Turned it in my hands
Watch the road unfold before you,
Is this not what you thought you’d see?
Shrug away the chains that bound you,
As if it could be awaiting the touch of a little hand.
(2014)
