Taking Sides


Oh, I know that you're laughing there I'm crying here
And with these tears I erase the good and blur the bad
'Cause what we had could have kept you warm but now I'm cold
How do you hold that white burning light that makes you blind?

On this trapeze you fly up but I fall down
and we go 'round churning deep into shallow
We can't grow when the silence screams above the sound
Our hearts will pound feeling open doors begin to close

The picture seems so out of focus
and bright colors of understanding and honesty
are fading...

To sail both skies, to compromise

Washed ashore I lay broken from your tender touch
I think too much how things could be and what they are
We can't run far in haze that's thick and air that's thin
This grinding spin has us gripping doubt and losing hope

In spinning doors your pushing in just pulls me out
My senses shout are we in love? are we in doubt?
What's this about? 'cause I thought two lives would mold into one
if that's not done What's left for you? What's right for me?

Can't we try to keep our balance
on this tightrope that we walk with our minds running
far behind?

To sail both skies To compromise


Copyright 2000
Mark Ostrander