tall corn gravel road stained glass on the window wrapped in the ragged soul of an old gentle hymn making deals with the clouds dreaming of those final hours when the thunder proudly bows to all whispering things but old ways how they fly like the earth from a tired eye born again in a new life of flickering whims we met at those crossroads where losing s the only way to go you looked at me as if to say won t you show me another way and take me to your hiding place just a soul without a map that got lost long the way worlds carved in stone now somehow erased souls without maps yet bound to fly away we kissed in the falling leaves sang old time melodies danced as our shifting feet turned stumbling we built our towers tall near a sea of shared tears fallen and cursed the waves that eat the walls ever crumbling tell me can our lonely tears find their way through fixed years on into the circling spheres so far above us honey are you the one to fall together with me through it all i m waiting for you to say that you re the one that can light my way and take me to your hiding place just a soul without a map that got lost long the way worlds carved in stone now somehow erased souls without maps yet bound to fly away stones in the river thrown shimmering sinking alone won t know how far flows their rippling rings so the words of a man grow washing over every soul though his bones will never know of the light it brings