Hey... do you remember that one song? From a while back? |
Hey. Do you remember that song we heard? It was a pretty long time ago… But it was soft, and sweet and powerful And if you turned it up loud enough, in your best friend’s presence You could feel the lyrics twist around your essence Hug it tight until your breath became short And we drank the sonnet deep We drank, and drank and drank until we could drink no more And when the song was over, we‘d sing it then ourselves And sing it in our sleep Over And over And over Until the whole neighborhood heard Until our throats were desert dry with wear Until we were starting to forget some of the words Until our voices became so tired, the words were but a whisper in the air? Even then we were singing Because it was a beautiful song It sang of love and wonder and fury and hate It sang sadness and justice and demands for the truth It sang of angels and demons and souls that danced ‘t’ward Hellgates It screamed a melody unhampered and sung by our youth It sang lilies and goblins and manticore dreams It sang desperate streets and moonlight dances It sang bitterly of lust ad deception with rock n’ roll screams And it sang of bloodlust in one’s soul and unjustified romances It was a song A special song And one that everyone knew I think my brother knew it And your cousins knew it Our teacher knew it And the shopkeeper could sing it with ease And the kid down the street, Jimmy knew it in seventeen languages (Including Finnish and Japanese!) It was a dancing, twisting melody That could have been sung for ages, That throbbing, potent rhapsody, It must have been written by sages Yes, it really was one hell of a song They don’t write ‘em like that anymore Sure, we have some imitations Thrown out by syndication But they feel flat and trite and dull And nothing like that song of yore ‘Cause they decided that those kind of songs Are the sort that nobody likes, are the sort that are vile They said, “We know what’s best for you, we know what doesn’t belong” So they opened the radios, they threw out the dial And stuffed them all full with tripe But I still remember that old melody The one we all knew by heart The song that breathed pure ecstasy Even if it never climbed to the charts It was simple It was loud It was glorious and honey sweet It screamed with guitars and drums and banjos A song surely written in dapper dipped ink But one thing still eludes me… How did it go? Do you remember? How did it go?! |