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First air of autumn up your nose |
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popcorn, heavy hairspray, nylon pantyhose |
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please stand and bow your heads and pray you don't get old |
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The nurture and the admonition of your kind |
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the rules of only strong survive |
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Cross shaped swimming pools, |
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down in the blood and lifted up |
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forever seeking favor from the light |
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Schoolhouse hallway like a prairie highway sprawls |
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the drop off spins away the sun |
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The getting there just proves it's nothing but a ball |
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Pray the horizon never comes |
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The hearts of the daughters of the men, |
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Won by the softness of the sons of women's hands |
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To leave it up to love would leave it left to chance |
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Memory only shows the promise beauty broke |
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of beauty ageless in it's time |
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Light attracts the same, you glance away and the glory fades |
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and being on your arm has lost it's shine |
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School house hallway like a prairie highway sprawls |
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The drop off spins away the sun |
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Like eyes that once could cut through |
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candle power on autumn nights |
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First air of autumn leaves me numb |
