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20070414 - The Beginning

from The Song Diary I by Paleo

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THE BEGINNING

If you tumble down the hilltop,
I will not be far behind.
It will not be long
I'm by your side

walking through the tunnel,
standing in the light,
through the thick and thicker
still noreaster night.

She was the message,
a guess as good as mine,
as a flower falling off the wall.
These things take a little time.

While the world away lives off of lemons,
I am making lemonade.
I have tasted seven oceans,
some few who taste the same,
setting ice and diamonds on my tongue.

Each unique to swim in.
Each gives its many waves a name.
Is everything a game
when all is said and done?

She was the message,
a guess as good as mine,
as a flower falling off the wall.
These things take a little time.

In time you will take your rings off
and set them in the sink,
then set about to take apart your gun,
to marry Lysistrata,
now that the war is won.

She was the message,
a guess as good as mine,
as a flower falling off the wall.
These things take a little time.

Hold the arrow in my heart,
with treadmarks on my soul,
I am headed home.

But first you must get permission
from the old man at her gate
who has the keys to the whole building — that's your cue.
He hopes you find the trap door
before the trap finds you

like all of the king's women
and all the horses' men,
my love has no beginning,
only means and an end.

No beginning,
only means
and an end.

DAS - New York, New York, USA

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from The Song Diary I, released April 15, 2007

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