A baby begins chewing on letters on wood blocks To get to the root of the problem at hand All your language is splinters it cant stick together When you open your mouth you start loosing your head And you still cant explain why the sky is blue There is nothing so sweet as the milk of your mother Thats how you bounce back when the bough breaks Now youve got these two eyes that go from wandering to wise Depending on the wind and how its feeling today And youve been thinking about swimming upstreams Are you embarressed by legends of cowboys and maidens Do you remember how David caught a giant on his tongue? The light through the window holds the dust of past heroes And theyre never destroyed only scattered around By the drunk wind spilling his guts So a child lights a fire just to look in the mirror For soon hell be wearing his Papas grey beard All his days in the country full of flame and born of longing Into the haze of the cityscape they all but disappear Like horses running out of prairie But if the stars cant quit dreaming And if the sun is still sleeping Then beholden theyll swallow the sad empty space While the moon casts her shadows and spells on new lovers Who must blush as they brush the hair from their faces And the crickets know nobody is immune You assume that Im wounded because Im hunchbacked and hooded But Ive got a dream just like any honest man I might keep it hidden so sweet is my burden But if someone tried to steal it theyd have to cut off my hands For its as heavy and as precious as gold
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