One Heart - A Thousand Voices

02.05.86

As I lay down in my bed each night

Sleep is a welcomed friend.

The darkness soothes my trembling heart

And wipes my tears again.

As I slip away to a deeper world

Night reaches out her hand.

And I walk close beside her,

Carried away to another land.

It seems as though it was long ago

But only yesterday

I believed with a foolish heart

The cunning game you played.

You took from me a special part

To which you had no right.

A love so feigned with callous lies

Deserves the blackest night.

But, you see, you took the part

That never can be yours.

For while your love was falsified,

He awaits, with open doors.

So if ever you should yearn for me

Come tomorrows past,

Bit the shining bullet

That from the gun was blast.

07.18.86

Lonely boy

under the streetlight

living the nightlife

watching dusk fall.

Passing by

suddenly I smile

knowing all the while

soon you'll be gone.

When I wave

there's more of you there

magic in the air

and a sadness.

Wish I knew

who you really are

I can't stop the car;

you'd disappear.

Driving bye

a tear in my heart

opeing a part

letting you in.

Lonely boy

under the streetlight

turn out my nighlight

don't fade away.

10.26.86

Your words

they changed colors

like the leaves on the trees

now gold, now crimson,

now falling in the breeze.

I knew summer was gone

from the look in your eyes

but never, not once

did I realize

your warm, salty tears

were now icicles

on your frostbitten cheek.

The touch of my hand

or my warm breath

can't begin to thaw the ice

you've changed the rules you know

what you promised once

you've broken more than twice.

I'm not the one who lied.

In the dark, in my dreams

it echoes down the mountainside.

It doesn't matter anymore you say

snowflakes hang in the air,

frozen like your bitter tears.

And now

what can I do

to be your summer sun

I want to warm your heart again

undo the things I've done.

02.12.86

Do you remember

Late in September

The day that the rain turned to tears?

And haven't you torn

The promises sworn

So late in the summer that year?

And once in a while

Do you see my smile

Feel sorry for playing the game?

Do reasons unfold

And leave your heart cold

And fill you with sorrow and shame?

Did you prepare

To follow me there

And watch as the sun turned to red?

And do you forget

Or ever regret

That it should have been you instead?

And now when you hear

A trickle of tear

Do you wish that you'd been more brave?

Or do you realize

You'd have been more wise

To bury yourself in the grave?