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Optical Hopes & Illusions Excuse me I don’t mean to presume But your eyes follow me wherever I go If this warmth that I feel When you look at me Isn’t simply one sided I thought you should know. Pardon me babe I can’t take anymore The touch of your hand is too much to bear I might just lose control Do something mad It’s overwhelming this hope When you smile at me dear. Is it too late love, have you given up? I’m sorry it took me so long to decide This love is so new but Our friendship so rare And I fear losing you boy So my heart I would hide. Am I assuming too much? Was I blind? I’m torn in two direc

Night Calls Come with me, fall into darkness Come discover the beauty of night The secret ways and shadows The wonders seen without sight. Come with me, sink into magic Darkness and wonder we possess Walk with me through dreams While the world lays at rest. Come with me, dwell within me Until dawn brings the light Hold me until we feel eternal In the warm embrace of the night. Come with me, feel passions song Until night throbs in your blood Let me feel you, skin to skin In a moment my heart will ever hold. Only come to me beloved I have no place in the light And would you have ever loved me If I were not the Lady Night?

Love Thy Fellow Men The joyous bells and blazing sun And frosting of delicate lace upon green grass A chill in the air when the day is done And twinkling lights on roof and glass. Sons in the darkness when the snow has yet to fall Call to mind ancient cries of celestial host Before man knew of the season or who we would call Savior and sacrifice, carpenter and king, father or son or ghost. Skies of grey and gold and blue All the faithful scurrying below In heart of hearts, honorable intentions true To Celebrate the Birthday in the best way we know. Let our names lead all the rest. For if we love, we will love our best And if we do not lov

Let Me Rest Oh, lady, I am in sore need My heart barely mended I am broken and alone        Let me rest, bring me home. Lend me your strengthening arms Guide my wandering path So long its been since the moon has shone.        Let me rest, bring me home. My sword arm is weak and wounded My soul is weary My magics spent and flown.        Let me rest, bring me home. I am tired, still I journey I will keep to the road You set me on. Up ahead I see your light shining Have I come, to the world beyond?        Let me rest, bring me home.        In your mercy        Let me rest, oh I am weary        Let me rest, bring, me  home.

The Mirror The mirror tells me I’m alive and well All of my friends can’t seem to tell That the best part of my heart is gone Since you left me to face my life alone. Chorus: I can’t breathe and I don’t eat I can’t sleep and my heart doesn’t beat. Every day and night takes an eternity of moments alone, so empty. Now that I’m without you and me. But I’m alive and well, the mirror tells me. I was fine before I ever met you. Work and play, now and then try something new I looked in your eyes and I’d never felt that way before And with you in my life, I wanted so much more. Chorus: I

I Drown My Sorrows Every now and then the thought of you strikes me Like a lucky punch I don’t see, a slap from behind And the pain just overwhelms me from missing you There’s only one sure way to take it off my mind October’s the hardest time, when the leaves are turning It holds an anniversary, the worst in the year. It nearly destroys me when I begin to forget But I have a remedy to hold back the tears. Chorus: I sit back in my chair, look at your pictures I remember everything we used to do And your smile is so sweet and you make me so happy I drown my sorrows in the memories of you. I drown my sorrows in the mem

I Like the Quiet The breeze is barely a kiss upon my face The stars are dim and the moon fat with light. All around me the world of man Has escaped into the dreaming. And I like the quiet. My trees are tall brothers with piney arms above The scent of night is full with flowers and nightbirds. Only a cat stirs the darkness With the glow of patient eyes. And I like the quiet. Give me quiet nights and mornings of mist Before dawn disturbs the silence. When the world is peaceful with worship Before the battles of the day. I like the quiet.

If Forgotten If forever lost I wander Far from home and kith and kin Sorrow and joy become me Sweet tears and aching laughter Fill me and leave me empty. If alone surrounded by folk Centered within my soul in shadow Ecstasy and pain as one Darkness and light entwined The echoing song of the moon. If forgotten… If lost to all hope and gone For only dreams to give comfort Pray let me not be forgotten To walk the path again Let memory be my return.

Exile ‘Tis the season to be jolly For smiles and laughter and ivy and holly. Doesn’t anyone ever doubt What the music is all about? Home for the holidays But I’m far from home in so many ways. I don’t care for mistletoe With grass on the ground instead of snow. Angels we have heard on high Do they sing, or is that their cry For the loss of innocence As we forget what Yule once meant. Silent night, holy night And I’m longing for a simpler sight A cycle of rebirth In praise of the mother and son of the earth. Hark the herald angels sing But for me no joy or peace do they bring. All is frail this time of year L

Childhood Dreams I have heard in the silence of dreams A sigh of a far away song, Of a world I long to see, a whisper away Out of my reach, and it seems There’s nothing left to say. Spells and unicorns dancing Waking seem far beyond The world in which I walk, so much is gone Only alive when I sing Yet I’ve lost that song. Music I’ll never remember now The dreams have faded, Lost in a wood full of nightmares Legends and how Am I to control my fears. I knew this world once intimately I walked every path Took innocence for granted, no second chances I sail a stormy sea Without backward glances. Only childhood dreams.