Silvery
September 23, 2006
[intro / chorus]
And in these same gray waves
of the sound that left me crying.
In these same gray waves
of all the traumas you've incited.
In these same gray waves,
sways a hope that's faintly shining,
in the halo of that silvery good-bye.
[verse I]
Moon-wooed by the river,
wading out into the night,
while some ungraspable patina
stirs the surface, ill-reminded;
in all your flimsy luminescence,
I can't coax you from the brine
to calm the wake of your departure,
still alighted in my mind.
[bridge]
Oh, the pale sky gaped
to drown the shoals of these words
where her shallows wring disaster
and her tide maroons the nerves.
But the storm broke wide
and the tributaries churned
as my last tears washed away
this damaged, careless girl.
[verse II]
I bade the ghost
of Robert Johnson to play
some blues in "A",
to soothe this itch.
Some diving bell,
to hoist my yearnings up,
sing my return,
and free my breath.
[chorus]
Well, his strums cleaved the rain
and the delta shone with stars
and the gentled sea presented
mother-of-pearl for his guitar.
And the inlays gleamed,
but he could not slake the fear
he would not live to see their spangle
when his rescuers appeared.
[verse III]
So, we sang our hymns
to Miss Diminshed, "Oh.."
"Her love has sunk,
beneath these waves."
We cast our grief
upon the water.
It's time to leave
her, unashamed
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