Palace Guard

With handmade silver sparkles

Like a well-dressed sequined whore

Your lady-like deceptions

Keep reaching out for more

And you ask me for nothing

And nothing's not enough

And the fisherman, he puts a claim on you

But it's nothing but a bluff

So with jealous hands tied 'round my back

I stumble 'cross the floor

Not knowing how to speak

I keep reaching for the door

"I know, you know me, well" I say

"'Cause I'm the palace guard

Remember me, we made love today

At the King's bazaar"

And you look at me

With eyes that never see

I can feel something start

To die inside of me

And you speak

In wordless freedoms never seen

Now I realize

To you it's all a dream

So before you show me everything

There's something I must know

I've worked with your friend John, the geek

And his sidewalk trav'lin' show

I know your childhood tailored dreams

Are very well disguised

So you don't have to fake it anymore

It's all been memorized

And you speak

In wordless freedoms never seen

Now I realize

To you it's all a dream

And you speak to me with feelings

As real as sealing wax

As the nearness dawns, the moth is gone

Leaving trailless tracks

"All you village people

Sing your songs of the morning sunlit sky

Don't you think it's time we moved along"

Said the raven to the fly