what are you doing tonight?

what are you doing tonight
is someone holding you tight
do you live with a stranger or all alone
has everything turned out alright?

what are you doing tonight
do you long for morning light
is life full of danger or safe at home
has everything turned out alright?

counting the years, there are more than a few
counting the changesd between me and you
but counting the memories we never knew
do we wonder what happens when dreams come true
has everything turned out alright... for you?

the children i would have called my own
the children that i never knew
the life you share is it all that you wanted
is it real, is it right, is it true?
has everything turned out alright... for you?

you can say i'm still waiting
for perfect love's return
for i knew it once
and nothing else burns
as sweet or as bright
as pure or as true
nothing else compares
nothing else will do
unless you never knew

what are you doing tonight
is someone holding you tight
the life you share, is it all that you wanted
is it real, is it right, is it true
has everything turned out alright... for you?
i hope everything's turned out alright... for you.

wrap

and if i wrap myself around you
would you melt into my soul
would you wriggle as if resisting
only to enjoy the rub

and if you wrap yourself around me
would it be losing control
would you deny conscious choices
like the ring around the tub

how many times will you turn away
from the obvious experience you deny every day
how many times will you run and hide
from the euphoric experience you can know inside
when you come inside

holy men have haunted you for years
challenging your passion and your pain
so afraid of feeling that they condemn feeling real
drinking your tears, washing your brain, killing your zeal
until you don't know how you feel or if you feel
or what is real

and if i wrap myself around you
would you understand a thing
would you play the social game boy
fingering all the right keys

and if you wrap yourself around me
would you want a wedding ring
would you place rules and conditions
on the birds and the bees

how many times will you play the fool
in the natural experience that you try to rule
how many times will you play the game
exchanging love and peace for guilt and shame
and laying the blame

on holy men ahead of you for years
feeding you false hope between their lies
so afraid of living that they fixate on despair
and death as cheers pretend the fears are all you share
until you don't know how to care or why you're here
or who cares

time enough for love
if you live so long
answers wait for you
just like this song
all you have to do
is open your mind
the truth is there
where's it's always been
while you look elsewhere
instead of within
fear has made you blind
to your own mind
no wonder you think
life is unkind

and if i wrap myself around you
what would it mean?
was it all a dream?

there was a time...

there was a time when i would write without much thinking
it was a time when i could feel drunk without drinking
adrenaline or endorphins or something magic in my brain
gave birth to endless streams of meaningless refrains

and i would babble to my heart's content
for that was what i loved to do
most times just talking to myself
but always open to welcoming you

for i believed in human kind
when love and trust made miracles
and the innate goodness of the human heart
was real to me…

there was a time…

suddenly solemn
the light flickers painfully
faith stretched so thin it is invisible
how can hope remain in me

for all the broken promises
and all the betrayed trust
condemned to face the funeral
of love conquered by lust

for all the user's cruelty
and all abused by faith
i don't want to give up but i
feel time is growing late

a prophesy may come to pass
self-fulfilled by human pride
the end beckons the ignorant
in species suicide

all my life i cared too much
and all it got me was burned
all my life i shared too much
by now you'd think i'd've learned

all my life i felt too much
the shallow all drifted away
all my life i knew too much
just to piss it all away

there was a time…

there was a time when i would write without much thinking
it was a time when i could feel drunk without drinking
adrenaline or endorphins or something magic in my brain
gave birth to endless streams of meaningless refrains

and i would babble to my heart's content
for that was what i loved to do
most times just talking to myself
but always open to welcoming you

for i believed in human kind
when love and trust made miracles
and the innate goodness of the human heart
was real to me…

there was a time…

suddenly silent…

suddenly still…

suddenly sudden…

and… i… always…. will…

shhhh, you know the thrill

(it's still…
such a thrill)

. . .

all my life i cared too much
and all it got me was burned
all my life i shared too much
by now you'd think i'd've learned

all my life i felt too much
the shallow all drifted away
all my life i knew too much
but fool enough to say...

i love you
one more time
before i go away