The Heron and the Fox

Stranded in a snowstorm in a town that you forgot I take advantage of a warm car and I reassess my lot So many years I have given up and now my youth seems shot I take my place among the truckers and I show 'em what I've got. I told the stripper at the bar that the shots we got were magic, 'Make a wish and they'll come true'... As she smiled her golden tooth glinted in the light, And I wonder what she wished for. I just wished for you. They say everything is possible... but I know that it's not true. Especially not when it comes to you Dreamy colors gold and red, dreamy colors run right through Oh, Caroline as my witness, I never meant to cause you pain... And sweet sweet forgiveness; you can go back, but it's never the same. Oh I don't know who I am and I don't know what I'll be Feels like I'm strounded in an ocean of grave uncertainty Wish I could conjure up the shoots and ladders to bring me back To the place before I ran away and found... I'd lost my track. Oh that magic curtained canyon where lovers dreams can lie Is like a drive in movie screen that is pressed against the sky. All those pictures float there happy just for a little while Before they're swallowed up in the vastness of... the open night. Dreamy colors gold and red, dreamy colors run right through Oh, Caroline as my witness, I never meant to cause you pain... And sweet sweet forgiveness; you can go back, but it's never the same. Oh I'll give you all the colors that are left here in my box, If you would draw a picture into which we could both drop. And you would be the heron and I would be the fox, And you would fly above me... Hoorah!