Mindgate

Let us go now you and I
beneath the autumn's painted sky
through the flames that reach so high
to where the soul will never die

Night has fallen one last time
In the valley church bells chime
Forgive us not this gracefull crime
untill the sea has turned to slime

Red shoes neath a redder cloak
Nary a word is ever spoke
Another bloke chokes on the smoke
but to you and I it's just a joke

In the book of love is written fate
Pity the fool who finds out too late
In the book of love no words relate
Of those who pass through the mindgate

Ready to anticipate
but first you must learn to wait
None are small and none are great
Floating through the mindgate

Hand in hand and hand in hand
Rivers flowing to the heart
Round and round and round and round
To never end is to never start

Brick on brick and stick on stick
sailors sail by stars and chart
Seven oceans in seven days
Untill the ocean falls apart

In the look of love is the heaven rose
and it's not where but how it goes
In the look of love nine futures wait
as we too venture through the mindgate

Without form, without state
in the storm fish or cut bait
for hate is love and love is hate
floating through the mindgate

From Astoria and Canarsie
all the way down to the Rockaways
They tell the tale of Harry
Who bid farewell to Galway Bay

Thirty seven days in a month
Thirty seven pounds was my bail
Time grows long when you haven't a song
And you're stuck in a cell in the Holloway Jail
Stuck in a cell
Stuck in a cell
Stuck in a cell in the Holloway Jail

Suburban Hiroshima
fireplace bugles are all melted down
Master of the steeple
What have you to say of this forsaken town?

Weathered balaclava
Another hundred days to be good as new
To sleep once more with Arthur
and Pegasis and Osirus too

One for the crane
One for the dove
One for the crow that knows no love

One for the king
brave and terrible
One for the pawn ever invisible

One more candle
on your birthday
One more moment 'till you've gone away

In the book of love is written fate
Pity the fool who finds out too late
In the book of love no words relate
Of those who pass through the mindgate

Ready to anticipate
but first you must learn to wait
None are small and none are great
Floating through the mindgate

Behold the castle made of glass
Resting silent on the grass
Devoid of content empty of mass
Yet it's door you may not pass

Like the sword down in the lake
You may give but never take
Untill the chains around you break
Untill the sleeper does awake

For though fragile the walls may be
They will last until eternity
For there's more there then eyes may see
or is writ in fair philosophy

I shall return
In the hour of need
Music shall return

I live in your heart
I live in your heart
I shall return