A Mother's Proverb

Mama said
Don't leave the casket in the sanctuary or
Wait just to wonder why
There's a thousand ways to live and
The world won't stop to watch you cry
Take your sorrows to the pasture
Won't you bury them alive
Turn your head to better things
While I wait here where grass has met the summer sky

She said
Kick off your shoes, leave this town of misery
And don't come back again
If you spend a lifetime looking back
You'll get to feeling salty in the end
But I've ran this track so many times
While watching many friends
Beat me to the finish line and
They've left me talking to these headstones once again

Papa said
She's in a better place, my son
Take some joy in moving on
There's a thousand ways to live this life
And only one is mourning what is gone
So I picked up, stepped out of the shade,
I saw the sun still shone
And this is something we all can do
I left those headstones on my own
(and now I know)

(But that doesn't mean
That I'll stop
Missing you...)




So sayeth The Brad...

Symphony

Echoed (echoed) lightly (lightly) overhead?
Are you listening to me in the sweet symphony?

Can you hear the bells above the drums
Echoed (echoed) lightly (lightly) overhead?
As you clap with all the hands around you (overhead),
Are you listening to me in the sweet symphony?

Cigarettes and chandeliers and velvet
Caught reflected in your eyes...
Canes and gloves and scented cloves on ruby lips;
A million people all dressed up to watch me die...
Will someone hear this now
From the crowded seats?
A woman that will listen
Just for me?

Can you hear the bells above the drums
Echoed (echoed) lightly (lightly) overhead?
As you clap with all the hands around you (overhead),
Are you listening to me in the sweet symphony?

Piccolos and resined bows and brass horns
Surrounded in a sea of black and white...
Gods and men and soaring wings of angels
Staring from the painted marble sky...
Will someone hear me now
From the crowded streets?
A woman in a million
Just for me?

Can you hear the bells above the drums
Echoed (echoed) lightly (lightly) overhead?
As you clap with all the hands around you (overhead),
Are you listening to me in the sweet symphony?

Symphony...
My sweet symphony.

So sayeth The Brad...