Poetry - you come and go but why
Why do you have to leave
Oh-so quicker than anyone I know?
Are you restless, dishonest?
Do you serve another one but me?
Well, whatever makes you happy is all good for me.
Catch a smile, a glimpse, a tiny inkling
Then gone, gone fast as a blink.
Tranquility you come and go but how
How to make you stay
You're more mysterious than anyone I know.
Befriend you? Impossible... but not for lack of trying
You're so evasive, leave me thinking
Why you're always hiding.
Catch a smile, a glimpse, a tiny inkling
Then gone, gone fast as a blink.
Cool as the wind on a winter's day
Where the lonely sun has wandered its own merry way.
credits
from Just A Few Demos,
released January 2, 2011
Music and lyrics by Alex Bowen
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