When Your Parents Danced
From Far Away
Up from my dream I am waking
Up from my dream you awaken me.
Up from my dreams I am woken
Eyes open wide in astonishment.
All that I want is to be with you
To be home again
To find my home in you.
From far away, so far away I reach for you
Wishing myself beside you
in your sleeping arms
Across the ocean sky
across the dark and storm-tossed sea
If only we believe
Though we're so far apart
We'll still be together.
Across my dream you have spoken
I hear your voice softly calling me
All that I want is to speak with you
To be home again
To find my home in you.
From far away, so far away you reach to me
Wishing myself beside you
The Joke
At a distance someone spoke:
/ there's no resistance / to
the telling and the selling
of the joke. / No, no-one ever
really gets the joke. / No,
no-one ever dares to complain
/ and on the never-never
/ nothing's ventured, nothing's
gained. / You tried so hard,
you tried to explain. / Where
were you when the downfall
came? / You were joking about
the rain, / you were joking
about, / you were joking
in the hope of staying sane.
November
Though there's a chill down
in the valley / still you
recall that distant day.
/ November's child explains
/ her memory would remain:
/ the embers carry the story
of the flame / The embers in the
grate / have died and now it's
too late, / you know she's
gone. / (She's gone, she's gone
forever, / she's gone, she's
gone for good / she's gone,
she's gone forever.) / And
you'd trade all those days
of November / to be back with
her if you could, / to be back
with her for good.
Time to Go
The journey's ending, / it's
turn and turn about, / come and
go, / it's time to go / I'm on
my way, / I'm on my way.
/ I'm not going anywhere / but
there's nowhere I can stay / so
it's time to go / but oh, will
you know it, / will you know
what you give away / when you
can no longer stay? / Time to
go, / yes it's always come and
go / Will you know it when it's
time? / Will you know it when
the time has come? / I'm on my
way, / so long, Touche, / day
by day, / I'm on my way. / So
we come and go, / so we come
and go away. / Will you know
it when it's time to go?
/ Will you know it when it's
time to go? / Will you know
it when it's time?
When Your Parents Danced
When your parents danced / with
the light shining bright in
their eyes, / when your parents
laughed / you were always the
child in disguise. / When your
parents danced, / when they
were young, / before life's
stories made them / what
they've become, / you never
knew them, / you never saw them
then, / when your parents were
still the best of friends.
/ Your parents were once each
other's best friends.