Finally Time.

Ripping the fabric off of an expensive chair

make a quilt for your children dear

i think it's finally time to weather proof the windows

Fill up the kettle put it on the stove

Write a novel just to loosen that load

I'll peal the paint off the walls

It was too dark for you anyway

I'll bring the sugar if you have the cream

We'll stir counterclockwise for the sake of your dreams

they swirl together like the steam from a hot cup of water

You are the only one who speaks without speaking

While you are flying, I'm the only one sleeping

I think it's finally time to get a new mattress.

You have my words and count all of my metaphors

in a jar above the back door

They can stay because most of my thoughts, you own them

They can stay until you finally disown them.

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The Half Moon Night

You suddenly hear the car door slamming

in the middle of a half moon night

The wind settled down just in time to here

the foot steps on the solid ground

Finally coughing up that old habit you swallowed

many years before the news hit the stands

now your focused on a new dilemma

in the palm of your new lovers hands

finding a dream used to be as easy

as finding the keys to your car

now finding a dream is finding out

you drove just a little too far

there were no street lights telling you

which turns would come first up ahead

just the half moon night

the half moon night

just the half moon night

the half moon night

Banana I will eat.

Spotted like an animal

You are sweet to change

Curvy, soft and natural

I'm in love, I'm in love.

Button Eyes

I saw you resting on the edge of my bed

Almost forgot how much I used to love you

Round button eyes, a cute little bow

Loose threads laying limp over your feet

Just like it used to be

I wonder how you'd be now

If I packed you with my music collection

and carried you around the world

would your buttons still be as kind?

Would your cotton paws hug me the same?

Would your bow still be tied tight, pretty and bright?

Would you still cuddle with me tonight?

Sing me a lullaby...

for button eyes...

Sing me those tunes we used to dance to

Pretend we are in a ball room

and you are my prince...

Button eyes

I could not bring you along

I left you where you belong

Out there, there is no time for a song

No song for a dance

Out there, there is no chance

for button eyes, for loose threads and pretty bows

Button eyes, Button nose

The things you will never know

I built you a quilted bubble

Full of sunny particles floating by like diamonds in the sky

To save those button eyes for a rainy day

Save that pretty bow for a special occasion

for the next ball room dance...for the last

Button Eyes, you watch me fading fast

but you remain the same, soft, gentle and kind

Button eyes

Button Nose

The things you'll never know.