Palace Guard
Rick Nelson
With handmade silver sparkles
Like a well-dressed sequined whore
Your lady-like deceptions
Keep reaching out for more
And you ask me for nothing
And nothing’s not enough
And the fisherman he puts a claim
on you
But it’s nothing but a bluff
So with jealous hands tied round
my back
I stumble cross the floor
Not knowing how to speak
I keep reaching for the door
I know you know me well I say
Cause I’m the palace guard
Remember me, we made love today
At the King’s bazaar
And you look at me with eyes that
never see
I can feel something start to die
inside of me
And you speak in wordless freedoms
never seen
Now I realize to you it’s all a
dream
So before you show me everything
There’s something I must know
I’ve worked with your friend John
the Geek
And his sidewalk trav’lin’ show
I know your childhood tailored dreams
are very well disguised
So you don’t have to fake it anymore
it’s all been memorized
And you speak in wordless freedoms
never seen
Now I realize to you it’s all a
dream
And you speak to me with feelings
As real as sealing wax
As the nearness dawns the moth is
gone
Leaving trailless tracks
All you village people
Sing your songs of the morning sunlit
sky
Don’t you think it’s time we moved
along
Said the raven to the fly
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