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Orpheus Remembered If the questions always change? Who can know the reasons if the rhymes are rearranged? I tried to rearrange my instincts, I tried to force my hand I tried to write the script, but the pen, it slipped and the pages flipped, and threw off all my plans. How can we plan tomorrow, until we live today? Instead, we look in rear-view mirrors, and reflect on yesterday. What is this mask I'm wearing, this game I play? This song I wrote, not what I meant to say. Where have all my dreams gone, have they flown away up to the skies on which they're drawn while on the ground I stay, a Dream betrayed. Or just led astray? It was you and I together, A love without a second chance, A true romance. But it wouldn't last forever. I let it go and lost my stance, I lost my chance. The things I left behind, for the things I thought I'd find are gone, They're all gone. But who knows what we might find, if we live by chance, or by design... (© 2004 Joe Maurone) Discuss this Article (9 messages) |