The Zoo Is Closed

Blowing leaves

bruise the park on this

autumn battered day

the zoo is closed

the cage is locked

the animals far away

they roam across a frozen land

and thru the deserts burning sand

while here, all alone I stand

the sky an iron grey

and the zoo is closed

and the zoo is closed

today

Two o'clock

we meet for lunch in a

cozy restaurant

we warm our hands on

coffee cups

what more could we want

we used to watch the dancing bear

and peek into the lion's lair

but nowadays there's no one there

and the waitress brings a tray

and the zoo ...

What happened

to the world we knew

what happened to the past

what happened to the distant future

seems it's come at last

The zoo is closed

the keepers gone

and taken every key

memories in empty cages

never can be free

We say the beginning

of the end

Comes from wishing that

now was then

but wishing seems so useless

when the dream as gone astray

and the zoo ...