The Wedding Song

The echo of a moment fades away
You're beautiful and glowing like a young bride on her wedding day
As she walks down the aisle through a veil of precious memories
The hands of time are catching up to me
So take it slow, how quickly we forget
I long for long lost summers filled with
Friends and front porch cigarettes
Let's sail away on paper ships through skies of dandelion wind
Forever never coming back again

Where shadows of the evening come alive
There's seven summer maidens waiting
Holding holy lantern lights
They whisper what your future holds
And paint your past with rings of smokes
Your fortune never comes without a price

My melancholy queen of make believe
She rides a rising emerald wake
Her water colors serenade the moonlight on the borderline
The sunset in the ghost town eyes
My scarlet fever wrapped in velveteen

She wanders where the dismal people go
Mysterious and haunting like a silent movie picture show
I kissed her once upon a dream
Her red lips on the silver screen
A fallen star that burned out long ago

The old man at the highway ribbon's end
They say he spent a lifetime chasing rainbows
Waiting round the bend
He hitchhiked on a lightning bolt
To ride off where the thunder rolls
His tombstone etched with "catch me if you can"

I've heard the broken bird who learned to fly
She's singing at your window when the chariots of dawn arrive
The ballerina pirouettes upon an empty hourglass
One last dance before we say goodbye

The prophet child walks between the rain
The sentimental bashful poets drowning in the alleyway
The curtains of his mind unfold
Spins his sorrow into gold
Hides behind uncertain shades of gray

He takes the roulette wheel to nowhere bound
She strikes another match
And trades a last glance with her one horse town
A tattered romance on the road
With empty pockets full of gold
To cash in when the final deal goes down
But maybe we can turn the world around