Elle To Abe

How cryptic would I have to be to get this off my chest One score and yet it seems like yesterday it was the best Most simple feeling that a girl could ever come to realize A moment and a smile, gone and lost in big, sea-colored eyes Ill-fated from the start, but gotta hand it to us kids Who tried and failed and tried again, a love that popped the lids Off every pressurized container of some crucial expectation Hand in hand we walked a path of gorgeous ruination Thrashing in the beating light Floating through the haze at night.. Swimming through the sound of a Revolver… We heard each other speak, though not a single word was uttered Do you wonder what I wonder? On the times that split in two One path that leads me here And one that leads me straight right back to you Oh yes, sometimes I wonder if the fates have just been tryin’ To make you my Billy Crystal and make me your sweet Meg Ryan So long from now So long for now Its fun to stay and play With these daydreams of a time that coulda-woulda’d in charming way Straight into my own beating heart, dancing to a tune Oh sweet melody, sweet beat and rhyme Hold tight and take me to the moon Yes, whisper me a promise that I still could hold the key To a world that never will become, where you’re still holding me Some blameless vestal never that I was The shackles of insipid bliss could never give me cause To laugh or love or live or cry or scream Or give any of the signals that my life is real and not a dream Eternal storm cloud of the spotted mind Your turmoil more belov’d by me for all that you’ve divined Of the flavors that make life all worth the living The painful truths and hard earned proofs, the taking and the giving Ask me once, just once, if I’d go back and change it all Would I unburn every bridge we torched or rebuild every crumbled wall? I may as well be asked if I’d sell off my precious soul In exchange for heady smoke and glitt’ring mirrors, all that would console Those gasping for reprieve from all the spice and fire and life and light Illusion, sweet illusion that what’s wrong is wrong and right is right! So know this, that I often think If even a thousand miles could sink If even a thousand years could make me blink away the mem’ries Of some distant love that made me gaze up to the stars in wonder Of some reckless love that charged the world with tearing us asunder And could I ask once more if you do wonder what I wonder Or if I’m the only fool to bare in rhyme this mortal blunder Of looking back if only for vain curiosity Yes, I do know better than to ask the crime to gaze on me Once more as in those sweet immortal times that we’ve forgot If for nothing more than that my reverie is not for naught