Song Description

A love song, in the midst of mystery and chaos.

Lyrics

Canopy

Rice paper walls yield to the wind?s caresses
the sun hangs low, a fireball in the sky
the couch still scented from her sleeping tresses
while near on the sill, a songbird lets fly

The doorknob, rusty in my hand, unlocking
outside the sunlit air is great with child
dimly now, I hear tomorrow knocking
within, her footsteps are light on the tile.

What in God?s name this is, I can?t explain
glaciers melt, polar seascapes trace
stalking his prey, cubs tug the lion?s mane
my hand is touched by some kind of grace

We walk along the stream a little while
each stumble an occasion for caress
across both faces shyly steals a smile
the whole of the sky echoed in her dress

Her eyes black coals, the fire smolders
her lips, black cherries ripe to burst
a canopy of angels draped across her shoulders
to shelter a child in the stars immersed

The world?s disorder is in full rehearsal
as madness through a rabid mongrel sings
the foam on his lips a coded commercial
for this, a gun is prepared in the wings

The twine of dark in light is never-ending
graveyards spawning colonies of death
up on the rooftop the junkie?s elbow bending
while her hand in mine portends our child?s breath.