Foggy Time Lyrics

It was quite sometime ago she called my name

Took away all the sunshine and left me only rain

Pastures, meadows, flatlands, and Midwestern states of mind

Washed her from my memory, watched the years unwind

Until the city called me back again

I packed up my life, my favorite pen

Drove myself insane and then

Let the thoughts of where she's been

Dissolve into the soapy clouded mist of foggy time

My laughter was a thin transparent veil

That hid the wolf from the hooded girl as she skipped on down the trail

The irony oppressed and soon destroyed

As reality ran rampant, becoming something I couldn't avoid

Until the love song called me back again

Written with a sticky pen

I stood among the lesser men

And let the thoughts of where she's been

Dissolve into the soapy clouded mist of foggy time

It keeps slipping away

Day after day after day after weary day

With every multiple moment you can mumble your life away

When it's finally over, there'll be nobody left to pay

No one ever escapes without serving a sentence a paragraph or line

They just drown inside the soapy clouded mist of foggy time

My blurry eyes are sharp, the sky has cleared

After years of black, blindfolded thoughts that echoed what I feared

The horizon drawing closer with each dance

Only twenty miles from heavenly unbridled circumstance

And her eyes won't call me back again

Won't guide my heart, won't guide my pen

What's lost was just a might have been

And I will never think of her my friend

Dissolving in the soapy clouded mist of foggy time

That just keeps ticking away

Day after day after day after weary day

It's a multiple moment and a hundred trite things to say

When it's finally over, I'll laugh at the lust gone astray

While the pennies and nickels escape from the shadow of the now outdated dime

I'll dissolve into the soapy, clouded, mist of foggy time