Seven Year Dream
Seven long years, it’s seven years that I have spent
On changing my own ways
Long, long wrong talks and quiet mornings
I’ve sat in reoccurring dreams
Only long hair and her pale pale forward eyes
Spinnin’ lies off of my ears
I take what’s needed and I take what I’m told to be
I am sown and I am seemed
Well, you can’t walk with the devil
No you must stride
Yes, lay your thoughts on the table
And yes girl you must lie
Well it’s a heard often, loose talkin’ widowed, a widowed sigh
I hear voices and they’re makin’ choices to trade
What in a mirror appears a man
On his long thing arms are his watch and charms and he’s tied
So, he leaps up and he cries
Oh, he loved you and oh he thought he did
Missin’ issues where he hid
Bootless mornings and sleepless evenings he rode
Passin’ shadows on the road
Well, you can’t waltz with a stranger
No you must ride
Even though she ain’t with ya
She says she wants you by her side
Mary Lou says I’m a two-step too far for her
As she dresses up in fur
What was too soon to a step to saloons and bars
Sippin’ sorrow from the jars
Me, I’m set free like a war bound boy at sea
As he swims away and weeps
Washed up worn out on a davenport in the hall
That was no short dream at all