Far Cry

Leave me alone let me think
Kiss me but don’t ask how I’m doin’
I only want to tilt my head to the moonlit sky
Oh I could just keep holding to this night

Leave me alone I need to rest
I’m all done being reckless
How I wrote it like a dream,
in the incomplete so sweet

You know it’s been a lot to carry

And it takes too long to think
And time keeps running off
So I walk until I’m free
Of everyone and every thought
But you know I’m gonna circle back
For that is this and this is that

When I’m alone I unbury my thoughts
Plunge my hands in icy water in the morning
And the sunbeam glints a warning,
kind of reminds me of a lullaby
And I could write a word or two before you rise

Is reality not quite the way we think?
Thunder drowns the thrum of her wings
Thrash the nest, the unfledged fall
If my arms could only hold them all

And it takes too long to think
And time keeps running off
So I walk until I’m free
Of everyone and every thought
But you know I’m gonna circle back
I won’t abandon life like that

My life unfolds
And I love it like dirt under my feet
and water in the creek
But it tears at me
Floodlight in the storm
and sandbags on the curb
Step by step and
word for word

And could we just awaken from the dream?
Shakin’ off the haze it’s empty
A fantasy will never do
But reality will ruin you

Do you think we’re a far cry from the gods?
Do you hear a soft sigh from above?
Worship how you think it ends
But we’ve a mortal life to tend

It’s rather often that I can see the end
All the far off places we imagine
I wasn’t promised afterlife
so I tend to wonder in the night

Oh what a comfort
when the moon sits by
Oh, what a comfort
With the moon

Do you think we’re a far cry?