By day, I'm a father of seven and husband of one. By night, I'm an author, a biographer, and a prog rocker. Interests: Rush, progressive rock, cultural criticisms, the Rocky Mountains, individual liberty, history, hiking, and science fiction.
Dreams inconsistent angel things. Horses bred with star laced wings. But it’s so hard to make them fly fly fly. These wings beat the night sky ‘bove the town. One goes up and one goes down. And so the chariot hits the ground bound bound.
We have forgotten (don’t try to make me fly) How it used to be (I’ll stay here I’ll be fine). How it used to be (don’t go and let me down) How it used to be (I’m starting to like this town).
When wings beat the night sky ‘bove the ground, Will I unwillingly shoot them down With all my petty fears and doubts, down, down?
We have forgotten (am I in love with this?) How it used to be (my constant broken ship) How it used to be (don’t go, I’ll shoot you down), How it used to be (I’m starting to like this town).
Kiss me out of the bearded barley Nightly, beside the green, green grass Swing, swing, swing the spinning step You wear those shoes and I will wear that dress
Oh, kiss me beneath the milky twilight Lead me out on the moonlit floor Lift your open hand Strike up the band And make the fireflies dance Silver moon’s sparkling So kiss me
Kiss me down by the broken tree house Swing me upon its hanging tire Bring, bring, bring your flowered hat We’ll take the trail marked on your father’s map
Oh, kiss me beneath the milky twilight Lead me out on the moonlit floor Lift your open hand Strike up the band And make the fireflies dance Silver moon’s sparkling So kiss me
Kiss me beneath the milky twilight Lead me out on the moonlit floor Lift your open hand Strike up the band And make the fireflies dance Silver moon’s sparkling So kiss me
Overhead the albatross Hangs motionless upon the air And deep beneath the rolling waves In labyrinths of coral caves The echo of a distant time Comes willowing across the sand And everything is green and submarine
And no one showed us to the land And no one knows the where’s or why’s But something stirs and something tries And starts to climb toward the light
Strangers passing in the street By chance, two separate glances meet And I am you and what I see is me And do I take you by the hand And lead you through the land And help me understand the best I can?
And no one calls us to move on And no one forces down our eyes No one speaks and no one tries No one flies around the sun
Cloudless everyday You fall upon my waking eyes Inviting and inciting me to rise And through the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning
And no one sings me lullabies And no one makes me close my eyes So I throw the windows wide And call to you across the sky
Beyond the horizon of the place we lived when we were young In a world of magnets and miracles Our thoughts strayed constantly and without boundary The ringing of the division bell had begun
Along the long road and on down the causeway Do they still meet there by the Cut
There was a ragged band that followed in our footsteps Running before time took our dreams away Leaving the myriad small creatures trying to tie us to the ground To a life consumed by slow decay
The grass was greener The light was brighter With friends surrounded The nights of wonder
Looking beyond the embers of bridges glowing behind us To a glimpse of how green it was on the other side Steps taken forwards but sleepwalking back again Dragged by the force of some inner tide
At a higher altitude with flag unfurled We reached the dizzy heights of that dreamed of world
Encumbered forever by desire and ambition There’s a hunger still unsatisfied Our weary eyes still stray to the horizon Though down this road we’ve been so many times
The grass was greener The light was brighter The taste was sweeter The nights of wonder
With friends surrounded The dawn mist glowing The water flowing The endless river
Overhead the albatross Hangs motionless upon the air And deep beneath the rolling waves In labyrinths of coral caves The echo of a distant time Comes willowing across the sand And everything is green and submarine
And no one showed us to the land And no one knows the where’s or why’s But something stirs and something tries And starts to climb toward the light
Strangers passing in the street By chance, two separate glances meet And I am you and what I see is me And do I take you by the hand And lead you through the land And help me understand the best I can?
And no one calls us to move on And no one forces down our eyes No one speaks and no one tries No one flies around the sun
Cloudless everyday You fall upon my waking eyes Inviting and inciting me to rise And through the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning
And no one sings me lullabies And no one makes me close my eyes So I throw the windows wide And call to you across the sky
You gotta be crazy, you gotta have a real need You gotta sleep on your toes, and when you’re on the street You gotta be able to pick out the easy meat with your eyes closed And then moving in silently, down wind and out of sight You gotta strike when the moment is right without thinking
And after a while, you can work on points for style Like the club tie, and the firm handshake A certain look in the eye and an easy smile You have to be trusted by the people that you lie to So that when they turn their backs on you, You’ll get the chance to put the knife in
You gotta keep one eye looking over your shoulder You know it’s going to get harder, and harder, and harder as you get older And in the end you’ll pack up and fly down south Hide your head in the sand, Just another sad old man All alone and dying of cancer
And when you loose control, you’ll reap the harvest you have sown And as the fear grows, the bad blood slows and turns to stone And it’s too late to lose the weight you used to need to throw around So have a good drown, as you go down, all alone Dragged down by the stone (stone, stone, stone, stone, stone)
I gotta admit that I’m a little bit confused Sometimes it seems to me as if I’m just being used Gotta stay awake, gotta try and shake off this creeping malaise If I don’t stand my own ground, how can I find my way out of this maze?
Deaf, dumb, and blind, you just keep on pretending That everyone’s expendable and no-one has a real friend And it seems to you the thing to do would be to isolate the winner And everything’s done under the sun And you believe at heart, everyone’s a killer
Who was born in a house full of pain Who was trained not to spit in the fan Who was told what to do by the man Who was broken by trained personnel
Who was fitted with collar and chain Who was given a pat on the back Who was breaking away from the pack Who was only a stranger at home
Who was ground down in the end Who was found dead on the phone Who was dragged down by the stone
The reasoning is mad The quantum of the action The spin up and down Tunneling through barriers Trapped teleportation A real life simulation Constructive interference Destructive incoherence Entanglement of life Superconducting A late irradiation The building blocks of life The things that we don’t see Behave as waves A light that can’t be seen Is right in phase The time is canceled out Energy saved Comе and look with me Collapse the wavе Come and look with me Collapse the wave The struggle and toil We’re spinning on the surface Always looking down
Tunneling through suffering Of our own making The joy is for the taking Destructive incoherence We fight the better fight Just to see who’s right Superconducting Delayed radiation Waiting for the cry The things that we don’t see Behave as waves A light that can’t be seen Is right in phase The time is canceled out Energy saved Come and look with me Collapse the wave Come and look with me Collapse the wave Just give me a reason Just give me a chance Has the time come to collapse the wave? What have we done? Where will we be? When there’s no one With no want and need? Fall on your knees Consistently What do you want? What do you need? The things that we don’t see Behave as waves A light that can’t be seen Is right in phase The time is canceled out Energy saved Come and look with me Collapse the wave
The reasoning is mad The quantum of the action The spin up and down Tunneling through barriers Trapped teleportation A real life simulation The struggle and toil We’re spinning on the surface Always looking down
Tunneling through suffering Of our own making The joy is for the taking Just give me a reason Just give me a chance Just give me a reason Just give me a chance To collapse the wave Collapse the wave
This is the end of every song that we sing The fire burned out to ash, and the stars grown dim with tears Cold and afraid, the ghosts of all that we’ve been We toast with bitter dregs, to our emptiness
And the birds falling out of our skies And the words falling out of our minds And here is to love, to all the love Falling out of our lives Hopes and dreams are gone The end of every song
And it all stops We were always sure that we would never change And it all stops We were always sure that we would stay the same But it all stops And we close our eyes to sleep To dream a boy and girl Who dream the world is nothing but a dream
Where did it go? Where did it go? Broken voiced lament to call us home This is the end of every song we sing Where did it go? Where did it go? Where did it go? Where did it go? Broken voiced lament to call us home This is the end of every song we sing, alone
Spirit of Cecilia 
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