We Love and Take For Granted Lyrics

We love and take for granted all the time

Those things that are yours and things that are mine

Were it any other time, I could see fit to fly

With you on through this splendid day, strewn

With bright hues of orange and gold

To fortify us against the coming cold

Trifling in morning sun

Full coat under moist dew

Lilies wide open, benevolently vulnerable

Magnificently

Offering fragrance to intoxicate the morning gust

Were it something new to behold

Would it matter any deeper

Than a new apprehension of silhouettes

Against a dimming sky?

Love in the grass, does it last?

Tall blowing grasses

Freely eternal, locked in time

Warm youthful hope, please never

Leave my mind

Smiles across fields of endless possibilities of love

Before the rushing tide comes in, before

The break wall cracks

We've a new world now

Nostalgia reformatted to a republican march

Never quite irrelevant, sadly

If seldom as appropriate

As hanging out in a record store

In Seattle or Kolkata

Discovering grooves of new seeds of passion

Fighting off cynicism, waking

In echoing halls amidst the walls we

Bash our heads against

Nightmares of embarrassments, nagging

Walls just made my people after all

Experience damages an unbridled smile

Worn grooves beneath an endless sky

Lines on dry skin

Retreating

This beauty and its' sunken treasure

Are nearly motionless as a battlefield

Soon to be a graveyard overturned

By bulldozers

Irrespective of the great personal sacrifice

Of this initiative

The love we take for granted still divine

If only we could be there at the time

Is this surface petty? Are you thrown now for a loop

Can we glimpse beyond our mirrors to grow and give?

Masquerading

In yesterday's worn clothes

Was I really? And whom now are you?

Ornament at my side playing the puppet strings

Short years, guarded smiles, long silence of dignity

Accomplishments wearing humility

As love deepens bold as the afternoon