Unresponsive Ears

Do you remember

Losing our minds

On the urgency of being alive

And we shuddered at the frozen time

That scared us to death

There was movement in the dark

In the courtyard under the arc

And one day when we turn to dust

We'll see who's there

I recall it in my palm

A photo of a poison hall

And a naked woman's careful charm

And

Sweet to sour

She's the same

By buckets of a quizzical rain

And these unresponsive ears could hear them say "We'll stay "

And that's when we know

I will be all right

The words that we spoke

Kept me up every night

And that's when we know

What is in sight

You are forever

And all the treasure

Constant comment slipping down inside my stomach

Ghosts of proud little girls

Since we smelled it

I fought it in my head to end it

Streets sweep go on and on

I feel like dreaming

Somehow I can't fight this feeling

Sleeping waiting it out

And that's when we know

I will be all right

The words that we spoke

Kept me up every night

And that's when we know

That is in sight

You are forever

Now now now forever