Laughter at My Window

Laughter at my window You are the laughter at my window. you are the crying on my shade. you're like roses in a sandstorm. you're like the fallin' rain. We are the dreamers & we are the dream. We have a thousand windows opened on a thousand crazy scenes. We are number & we are rhyme. We have travelled from creation 'till the end of time. We got hard times good times too. They say the peaceful life is only for the chosen few. Well I want to tell you babe we ain't lost no we ain't lost & neither are we saved. Just one day Just one day at a time Checkin' out the rhythm & the rhyme. White Clouds on a Dusty Summer Sky (May 25/79 song given to Charles Wells) White clouds on a dusty summer sky & the horses ain’t arrived, lonely nights in the city in some old beat up dive Chorus City lights ain’t no comfort City lights & it’s all a game City lights ain’t no comfort & I wonder if I’ll ever see you again It’s a juke-box night & the news ain’t good waitress got a date with a part-time hood, Wiped-out-Willy is stackin’ the chairs, boss is countin’ money, he’s a man of affairs. It’s closin’ time at this here joint and the rain is comin’ down. There’s a pickup truck in the parking lot and no one else around. Back Road Woman Got a back road woman & I love her so she don’t move fast she don’t move slow no no no no etc. got a back road woman & I love her so Got a back road momma & she loves me free. If I don’t feel good then she lets me be. Got a back road car name of baby Blue, fits me just like an old pair of shoes. Got a back road car & she starts every time, rides real easy makes me feel so fine. Got a back road momma like to ride with me. She’s an easy riding momma & she lives to please. Sometimes life sucks / sometimes it rocks Time’s a machine for counting pleasures a machine for adding up the pains. Time’s a machine for getting around the back streets of your brain. Sunlight falls across the sky Comes crashing down upon your thigh It’s in your mouth & in your hair Sunlight falling everywhere. Crows talking across the lot Dog is talking that good dog talk Heat of summer all but gone & it’s time that just keeps moving on. The past is all past they say & the future ain’t here to stay & when you got to go you’ve got to go life is good & nasty too & we’ve all just passing through love is love & rage is rage & death is just another stage (they say) Memories are made for autumn & the harvest of the slanting sun & the flowers are fading on the graves of the lost that would be saved. never mind a promise or a whim forget the places that you’ve never been never mind the sights & sounds they’re just a trinket verb or noun. Somebody is comin’ home in a box. Somebody inside your head just talks & talks. Sometimes life sucks / sometimes it rocks. Sometimes you just got to take a walk. You got to take what you can Give what you got You can’t come back later & say you just forgot If time’s supposed to go from here to there how come it never seems to get anywhere? (nowhere) Gospel song words We may rest awhile in the arms of the natural world We can breathe the sighing breath of the trees, We can feel the coolness of the river on our cheek & it matters not what we say that we believe. Hold me in your arms my mother, Rock me in your arms my father, I would go to sleep with you I would love you forever. The blue of your eyes is the blue of the sky The colour of your skin is the many colours of the hills, white, brown, yellow, The sound of your voice is the voice of the wind The texture of your hair is the moss, the grasses. There is thunder in your trouble There is lightning on your breath There are shadows moving swiftly As swallows round the chalky cliff. There is nothing that I don’t want of yours There’s nothing that I’d miss I’ll take it all the heavy, the light, the large and the small & always I await that sweetest kiss. The rock is the surest form of hardness, The cloud will do for soft. I’d love to lie around in your grassy hillocks And play with you long beards of moss. The snow, the rain, the hail & storms, The cracking of the earth, the fire, The rushing water, the floods, The forest on fire, volcanoes, wire. I love your small plants & your lordly trees I love the little creeks All the hills and vales I am coming to you Please hold me in your arms Your sweet arms that have Always been there for me. The sky that looks down on me With sun & rain & clouds & blue The earth that’s brown & grey & rocky & dark & true. I’m not long for this world & the earth is going to take me Take my body, take all of me & then I’ll be part of it all The leaves are going to fall The rain is going to fall The sky is going to look down on the all & I’m going to fall.