watching my life roll away

sitting on the dock of the bay

watching my life roll away

there’s nothing left

no home no money a place to stay

this was supposed to be my new start

looking back i see how faulty I thought

a grand adventure….not so smart

so it is on the street i go

with only a whisper of pride and nothing to show

does it really matter is this the grand plan

so many in a maelstrom of madness

play it again sam

maybe a bed and a meal in a shelter

lost and defeated

life lived helter-skelter

don’t give me your false pity

with crocodile tears a beam in your eye

we only reap what we sow

the facts don’t lie

so don’t weep for me cinderella

in your castle so fair

you too are a prisoner of your illusions

a captive in the lions lair

maybe i am more real

cause there’s no falderal

soon your fantasy of the future

like the walls of jericho will fall

a thief took it all while you slept

your fortune buried in insufferable debt

now cast afloat on an endless ocean

rudderless and afraid sick from all the motion

i’ve already tightened my belt

ahead of you in this hunger game

nothing no nothing will ever be the same

oh daughter of jerusalem weep for yourself and your children

the day dawns darkly a fiery cauldron

shed me no tears i rest in my mothers arms

safely protected from further harm

so i sit on the dock there’s just otis and i

today ain’t so bad

no rain only blue sky

i am the wind that blows

i am the diamond sparkling in the snows

it is only the laughter of children that i hear

dwelling in peace wanting nothing i sit on the peer