Oblivion Banjo Lyrics

This song came along

It's almost wholly in my own style

It took some time

This one took a while

It don't look like the sea

It ain't no symphony

It don't have dirty hands

It will not be part of the weather

It's a quote of a quote

A footnote to a footnote

So what makes me

I'm neither and I'm both

Kidding around all the time

At the risk of repeating myself

I come and go

In me as though

You might move

From room to room

A photograph of me

Taking photos of the sea

Plotting a winding path

On a decades long graph

Kidding around all the time

At the risk of repeating myself

I sit where I always sit

A bookshelf with books on it

I carted from place to place

Staring me in the face

It begins this way

Talismans of the past

It took some time

Took until the last

Kidding around all the time

At the risk of repeating myself

Going forward looking back

Drifting further from

My point of start

How I miss that place

It's 1979

I'm spraying water on

Straw coloured grass

A dead or dying lawn

Kidding around all the time

At the risk of repeating myself

It's 1991

Curtains blow in and out

I'm in a green suit

And things are heading south

Skipping through time

It's 1999

Another century

It was mine

Kidding around all the time

At the risk of repeating myself