Shades

If birds fly over the rainbow

Then why can't I

Was it just a shade of gray

Or a splash of blue that made up the colors of her eyes

You're slipping away

Eroded by a sea of forgetfulness

Don't forget

Half of me still standing on this sinking ship

Half of me still looking for answers on this one way trip

I was thinking as usual

In my own living color

Of the glass that pierced her heart, of the mirror in her eye

With my own vivid clarity

And a touch of distortion

I saw our love thrown out the window

I saw a shade close in her eye

And a silent hint of Autumn frosts my heart

Crystal blue is my hell

The absence of her eyes leaves the seasons standing still

Even my Juliet with her faded rose...(Do you think of me with a smile)

Can't conceal the obvious, crimson...(Full of contempt)

Tears that fill my life's cup......(I would start to laugh but I just)

Cried from the heart that no longer(Can't find the punch line)...

Feels the warmth...(I can't stand the heat)

Cried for a heart that no longer...(Hanging around that watering hole)

Feels the day by day

In tune with my memory her visions

Dance across the embers in my mind

By night it's the silence that alarms me

Her refusal was so quiet

That it almost drove me mad!

Even when Romeo strikes his...(Do you think of me with a smile)

Favorite pose he can't conceal the obvious...(Full of contempt?)

Crimson tears that fill my life's cup...(I would start to laugh but I just)

Cried from my heart...(Can't find the punch line)

(I can't stand the heat)

(Hanging around that watering hole)

I wasted my words in verbal frustration

My diction just coal to heat your sensation

The rise and fall of ryhthmatic gyration

Just digging for fun in your sexual foundation

The taste of your love just fuels my engine

Submerged in the flow of my one night injection

The moment explodes in compelling fashion

Washed clean my fancy for nocturnal attraction

I was swimming here again in my sea of insecurity

just shooting up some flares for your raft of confidence

Instead you just threw stones and some weights for my ankles

You gave up

You never tried for the other side of the rainbow...

And so the story goes

One heart walks off into the sunset

The other walks alone, forever Tuesday...

All remains the same

And I have to hold your hand

I've just got to hold your hand

Ccould your hand hold my heart...forever?

I say to you now

Like I said to you then

When a kiss would say it all and it meant forever

Now those days of vision have all gone

The key to all is love

Peace within your heart

The price for love is great but patience leads to truth

Away above the chimney tops

That's where you'll find me

Alone with my addiction for your love

Standing in the rain laughing at the sunshine

Making wishes by the pool...you're there

You're there when I'm divided

Half of me in tears

half of me still looking for answers for that one way trip