Lamplight

It's dark & it's a long way down

She said as she lay her head

On the pillow

I took one step back

& I retired

To evening

& The movie made me feel as if I wasn't here at all

& I drove home & I wound up all the windows in my car

In the lamplight I breathe

But the dark is falling in the garden over everything

John I'm waiting for a morning filled with sunlight

When we can both drive away

Shake the dust right off my shoes

With younger friends & skies of blue like yesterday

John I'm waiting for a morning filled with sunlight

When we can both drive away

Laughing friends & silent rides

& All the lovers that we lost are found again

I've been out walking in the verges & the quiet

Through all the traffic & the movement of the night

& The lamplight froze

Stopping so suddenly

Hearing the dim radio