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He cut your strings so that he could float - lit by lights, lifted by alcohol
over acres of loving coast, far away from your lonely ghost.
Now heâs cool and all, floating anchorless. Ports of call:
where itâs fabulous, after all of this watching himself just crawl.
Think you see him? Heâs not there, thatâs just light thatâs not yet dead.
Wait two hours and watch whatâll be there instead.
Was he small and cold, like a ring you call up from home,
held so tightly his limbs went numb, worn away between your finger and thumb?
Well, now heâs bought and sold. Cry his call number down the phone,
he canât hear you - heâs on his float, waving down to the folks at home.
Think you see him? Heâs not there, thatâs just light thatâs not yet dead.
Wait two hours and watch whatâll be there instead.
As the cameras love all of his faces,
they hide all the traces of you in his heart.
Stand in line to hold forth on his grace,
but you wonât even get a head-start,
get a head-start.
As his close-up comes cascading down from above,
the eyes of a nation in love are looking on all of their hopes held up.
And the words that some screenwriter counted and chose,
and then set in their sequence and froze,
unfreeze on his tongue as he speaks for all of us
but one. And honey, heâs gone.
And baby, heâs everyoneâs. In the dark sky tonight,
cast your eyes on the dim light
that he will become. Youâre like everyone
who thinks they see him.
Heâs not there, thatâs just light thatâs not yet dead.
Wait two hours
and watch whatâll be there instead.
- Album:
- Black Sheep Boy
- Black Sheep Boy Early Drafts On The Road, 2004
- The Silver Gymnasium
- Golden Opportunities 3
- The Stage Names
- I Am Very Far
- The Stand Ins
- Miscellaneous
- Mermaid (Single)
- Away
- Wake and Be Fine / Weave Room Blues
- Wake and Be Fine b/w Weave Room Blues
- Your Past Life As a Blast
- Your Past Life As a Blast / Gold Faces
- Your Past Life As A Blast b/w Gold Faces
- Sleep and Wake-Up Songs
- Sleep & Wake-Up Songs
- Reason To Believe - The Songs of Tim Hardin
- Shiloh Town
- Reason to Believe - The Songs of Tim Hardin (Bonus Track...