Reflections

Outside the last remaining shadows of the day

Too vague to make out

De Chirico has packed his case and left

Abandoning his stakeout

Inside the music and the lights unite

To overpower the fading day

In here with you beside me, warm and dry and safe

My mind begins to stray

(I see reflections of what was and what could be

In dark and light they dance around me

Ambition, memories, fears, hope and fantasies)

Crucial words never said

All the good that you spread

Each a fragment of meaning to me

Who else amongst the dancing crowd

Can share the sense that we are falling

Above the sound who else can hear and see

The fates as they are calling

That vision is a blessing, is an error

Time can only sweep away

Insight is there to guide us

We ignore its message in our own display

(I see reflections of the people we could be

A million faces now surround me

Beloved, abandoned, fortunate, or refugee)

There were tears in the night

Summer days without end

Each a fragment of meaning to me

From the birth of a child

To the loss of a friend

Each a fragment of meaning to me

(Demons of the mind

Demons of the mind

Demons of the mind

Demons of the mind

Demons of the mind

Demons of the mind)

(I see reflections of what was and what could be

In dark and light they dance around me

Ambition, memories, fears, hope, and fantasies)

Crucial words never said

All the good that you spread

Each a fragment of meaning to me

All the tears that you weep

All the love that you keep

Just a piece of the meaning to me

Crucial words never said

All the love that you spread

Each a fragment of meaning to me

The confusion and pain

The contentment again

Just a piece of the meaning to me.