Recent Songs: Year of the Ox

Year of the Ox


Blue Eyes, call me up sometime
You always could make me smile
I don’t ask for Cana wine
I little light will do
Maybe I’m in need of a muse
Or maybe just a friend I can talk to
Blue Eyes, call me up sometime
I want it to be you

You tell me you’re just a dream
That I painted on a simple girl
A canvas that cannot be framed
You were always set to sail
I never meant any abuse
I never meant to rest my world on you
Blue Eyes, call me up sometime
I want in-turn for you

Won’t you tell me how you’ve been?
I’m not in love with the sound of my voice
Potemkin villages I’ve built
But on a telephone, silence is never choice
Maybe I need to go back home
I never traveled far but I’ve been so gone
Blue Eyes, call me up sometime
I’m taking the prodigal road

Wisteria blooms on the gate
I’m missing a button on my coat
Should I return or should I wait?
Search my pockets for a light when I don’t even smoke
Kneeling at my old name’s tomb
An old coffee can bare hands exhume
Blue Eyes, can I make you smile?
I’m haunted by my dues

Remember the time capsule we made
The pictures from the promenade
The pouch of buttons and the river stone
The scrap of lace and the broken horn
The pressed flowers and lyrics scrawled
The sea glass and old ticket stubs
The manifesto and the manifest
The feathers and the candle wax
And you tell me you’re just a dream
I’m standing at your front porch screen
With the coffee can that we buried
And such a longing to sleep
Maybe I’m just passing through
Maybe I’ll wake up to nothing new
Blue Eyes, it’s been a long time
But I wanted to tell you

Blue Eyes, call me up sometime
You always could make me smile
I don’t ask for Cana wine
I little light will do
Maybe I’m in need of a muse
Or maybe just a friend I can talk to
Blue Eyes, call me up sometime
I want it to be you


July 6, 2015