City Scenes

I am on my way to daylight I am on my way Keep it open Keep it bright Through the tangled wispy worries of another night In my freely fashioned destiny I search the night For seas of light To sail my lovely dreams To the sunny virgin beaches of my city scenes I am caught up in the circle and I turn again Like the seasons Like the moon Like the still and frozen moment in the beggar's hand Love is bargained for Much too soon As time goes by The past is high Upon its rising wings And I feel along the edges of my city scenes I am riding on my fantasies and getting by It will carry me where they belong Followed by mechanical realities They will bury me unless I'm strong And chivalry and pageantry And all that falls between Are collected and respected in my city scenes I've been working on the railroad All my livelong life To find the way to set the track To run the train to take me back To take me back