Palace Guard

With handmade silver sparkles

Like a well-dressed sequined whore

Your ladylike deceptions

Keep reaching out for more

And you ask me for nothing

But nothing's not enough

And the fisherman he puts a claim on you

But it's nothing but a bluff

So with jealous hands tied 'round my back

I stumble 'cross the floor

Not knowing how to speak

I keep reaching for the door

"I know you know me well," I say

"'Cause I'm the palace guard

Remember me? We made love today

At the king's bazaar"

And you look at me with eyes that never see

And I can feel something start to die inside of me

So before you show me everything

There's something you must know

I've worked with your friend John the Geek

In his sidewalk traveling show

And I know your childhood tailor dreams

Are very well disguised

So you don't have to fake it anymore

It's all been memorized

And you speak in wordless freedoms never seen

Now I realize to you it's all a dream

And you speak to me with feelings

As real as sealing wax

As the nearness dawns, the moth is gone

Leaving trailless tracks

All you village people sing your songs

Of the morning sunless skies

"Don't you think it's time we moved along?"

Said the raven to the fly