All lyrics and music © 2012 Paul Doffing Music, All Rights Reserved.
Blossom is You
Blue as January
June its unending
Future unturning
Blossom is You
Free as a memory
Been unintering
me uninverting
Blossom is You
Lost in a suitcase
Whirlwind unfurling
Costs next to nothing
Blossom is you
Out like a lightening bolt
in the damp moonlight
caught in the limelight
Blossom is You
Then like quick bygone
moment so sweet
take me, retreat
Blossom
Fly nightingale
From the coming gale
Bend but don't break
Blossom
Blown like a dandelion
Commit all your crimes
Airborne you flourish
Blossom
Lovely unknown
This world wouldn't know
it's most perfect plaything
Blossom its You
Bloom under moonlight
Strangle the midnight
Air with your sweetness
Blossom
Paralyzed
The wind it howls as I pace this floor
Can I really try again?
There's an old note on the ballroom door
There's a big bruise on my chin.
But I wonder what I could be if I wasn't so scared to try,
And I wonder where I would be if I wasn't so paralyzed
I'm trying hard to remember when you taught me how to fly,
And I'm wondering where I could be if I remembered how to try.
It's these old roads I've been down before,
It's this me I've always been
It's these tired eyes that just don't want no more
Could you wrap me up again?
Chorus
Love, Love, please let me explain
You were right to fly away
I was no match for your lightening train
But you're heat sure fired my clay
Chorus
Train
There is a train that runs in time.
In time it clicks, it chirps, it creeks,
It drags along from deep to deep.
Where is this your summer home?
It's greening fields, it's flowing streams,
It hangs alone within in a dream.
Who gave you fire within your heart?
In time it leaps, in time depletes
the stores you hold within your soul.
There is a trail that runs away from a kiss.
Remember this, remember this,
when tied up in your wide eyed bliss.
Back to dream that trail remits
upon a wind that never quits
sinks in the water there
There it silently sits
Setting Sun
There's a four land highway towards the sun and I know that's the one you're on.
With your whole life's savings in a bag around your thumb.
You did what you had to do. You've always know what you have to get done.
You stick to your guns, but do you ever run down the setting sun?
Who were you when you were young?
Who was your father? Who was your mom?
What were the roads you roamed when you knew you shouldn't stray to far from home?
And why did you run?
Or were you only chasing down the setting sun?
What were the dreams deep in your heart?
How did those swings feel in the park?
Remember those nights you asked if someone would come and hold you in the dark?
And then how they laughed.
You were at the very start; you'd just begun.
And that lovely bride of Babylon, how she held you with her eyes,
Left you no feet to stand upon, how she say through your disguise.
So as you tip back another glass in ancient loving memory of that one
Who gave you the sun
And who's memory you may never quite outrun.
There's a four lane highway toward the sun and I know that's the one you're on.
Your invisible compass of a heart right on
Its clear as a photograph you streaming silhouetted by the sun
You run and you run,
But do you ever run down the setting sun?
He Awoke
He awoke in the morning
He gave his wife a kiss
A cold and bitter morning
land of snowy bliss
He feels his heart transforming
He's mad at who he is
The cold a bitter warning
This land will not forgive
The trees they creek and call him
His saw it bites and binds
Its teeth a forest falling
The cold is off his mind
And his hands grow hard
As dirt fills his scars
And his cold skin strains
To cover his face
And as the snow falls down he wonders
On the secrets of the clouds
How all the world's alive
But nothing makes a sound
So by his axe heads toiling
He warms his bitter home
He passes winter knowing
He's never quite alone
She wraps herself around him
She holds him in her hands
In her warmth and softness
She gives him all she has
Big Brother
In the grass of greening springtime
in the sound of songs first sung
in our wild wood undertakings
in our tunneling begun
the time smooth flowing
the smell of trees
our fathers calling
our minds at ease
the times we'd play so far away
lost in fantasy
we had a home
It's the changing of a season
It's the breaking of a dawn
you've found yourself a new world
you're ready to move on
I would go with you
take me along
I will go with you
take me along
I know you'd stay
If you had a say
But you can't you see
You're moving on
I will go with you
We will go on
I will go with you when day is done
And I know you go to find a home and build a family
But take me with you
Today you're in a park and you're playing with your son
In the joy of springs first leaping with your lovely cherished ones
I do go with you out in the sun,
I do go with you when day is done.
I know you stay, you have a place inside a part of me
Though you go on