High And Dry Poem by jim hogg

We started sometime yesterday
shooting arrows in the sea
counting stars and making hay
Taming truth and electricity.

You threw your cat a butcher's bone
And killed an Adder with a spoon
We sprinted for the open door
and jumped without a parachute

You turned the lights off on our street,
smashed the gates and left for Rio,
And I went paddling in the deeps
Of no-one else but Mary oh


And off we soared on wings of myth
Without fear and without shame
Sure that we were first to sing
Songs of love and truth that made us slaves

We rushed into the ancient dance
bewitched by dreams, by history,
and If there was a fleeting chance,
it stole beyond us silently

like clouds that slip in on the dusk.
Falling rain upon the river
Or Albatross as safe and lost
as geese within the endless skein.


You might have felt time pass you by
Like a question on the wind.
Beating wings in life's disguise,
But the words no longer seem to fit.

And eyes and ears won't let us know
The secrets driving destiny
The carrion that tears the crow,
The isle that overcomes the sea

and when the drowning moment comes
In this life we took to scorning
The folly of self crowning runs
through all our dreams turned into thorns


Our wings of soaring out of lies.
Sacred clichés cast aside
All we were is all that cries
All our cares now lying high and dry

The arrows sail the wind's song now
the river flows out of the sea.
Crow and carrion take a bow
Deep in the bones of you and me

We started sometime yesterday
Making war on fate so freely
It stole upon us silently
And tamed our 'truth' with mystery


chorus
There was no-one else but Mary
But there were hills we had to climb
Our dreams soon put us to the sword
And impatience stole our time
07 01 09