Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Ghost Shadows (audio demo)

Ghost Shadows lyrics


Ghost Shadows


Silent nights that

you drove away,

sailed right by like ships on a breeze—


Ghost shadows—

leave a haunting wake

trailing into the unforeseen,


overcast,

dark weather.

A voracious sky consumes then pleads


for you to stay,

with your wandering fleets

heading out for the blaze in the east:


Don’t set on me.


High ridges line

the broken coast.

A beacon casts its waving arm,


bending light

through the howling wind,

steering ships away from harm.


Full moon

climbing high in the night;

a warning sounds its red alarm;


Your fleets scatter

their masts at bay,

collected, harbored, and withdrawn;


docked, fouled, and frayed.