Once Blue

I speak can you speak? I move can you move? The day's a long time ago Petticoat and high-buttoned shoes You turn up on a Sunday Beside old slogan pins You must have hung in the subway If there were any then For Saturday's Vaudeville show Things must

Join me on the sand and rest yourself What's the rush to leav for someplace else? Listen to the folding waves Watch the planes go by Nothing we say or do secures our place A gust of wind a thousand miles away could Change the course of everything Eve

Another sunny Sunday morning Finds me inside The shadows and light Pass through the empty hallway I gave my best Mahalia Jackson But nobody cared No round of applause acknowledging I was there I welcome them in and sing "It Don't Mean a Thing" I

For you I ascend Into the sky Under the roof Stands the bed and I For you, a wonderland For me, a dump There's an amateur inside you that I love . . . For you the stars Rub their eyes and stare Under cover Under repair All the dots of all the colours

I know my dream But can't explain I'm rising slowly Up to the air Up where they know me Now that I've disappeared The hand that shakes me Jars and wakes me and I soon forget My dreams and yet The sea's below me I'm safe and clear Up where they know m

Well, you walk in time A counter-clockwise clock And you beat it in rhyme Rhymes in stock Maybe he's been Maybe he's there Maybe he swims in a fountain square Sometimes everyone gives up Well, it might sound crazy Maybe absurd Maybe I'm lazy I'm wait

 Thanks anyway but a friend like you I could do without The sky's a hazy grey I never seen it quite this way Watch the sun now like me it's sinking Feel the rain and the wind seeping in Got you under my skin how did you get in Set my soul free Someb