Back To Times Of Splendor

Half way through the wheat, my golden foe
 With his itching ears in the scorching heat.
 The weight of summer, torment to my hands
 Armed with a sickle I am out for his beguiling glance.
 Thought I heared a mare neighing from the creek
 Where in every hour spared we anxiously would meet.
 Drunken whispers noone could hear
 'til the day when hordes of wasps
 Poisoned every hour so passed.
 She was faint as I when she spoke to me.
 Reluctantly. Words came through
 Words of leaving here and leaving me.
 And her eyes grew bigger then
 Bound in moonlit glittering.
 She Leaned to me and whispered tears into my ear.
 Well, I went to see the creek again
 And many a day I'd stand at it's shoreline wondering
 If it might be heading north
 Through the timber, passed the lake and our chalet
 Should have gone with her, should have gone with me.
 But I stayed when she begged me
 To come with her, never to separate, never to be alone.
 And lept silent when I should have sung the song of heart
 And remained loyal to the thief.
 There is a road that I must travel
 May it be paved or unseen
 May I be hindered by a thousand stones
 Still onward I'd crawl down on my knees
 At sudden swallows took upon the scene
 Heralding what I could not have foreseen
 A threat of rain on the dark horizon
 A strong foreboding of a storm arising.
 And willows'd roar, midges dazzled
 Birches sigh from painful lessons
 Lessons they'd learned in life
 That every stem breaks if bent too far.
 Will I run for a shelter and quiver?
 Will I run away, be idle and shiver?
 And thunders pound so hard, pound the drums of warfare
 Hungry clouds draw closer with reptile teeth as lightning
 Is it the fear of the inevitable that is keeping me awaiting?
 I am rigid as of reverence, still and enduring.
 I must have seen it coming.
 Oh my longing's neverending. Time's so pale
 So come with colors, paint it burning red
 I fear no more, can see clearly now
 The morning sun beyond the clouds.
 And when the dark night seems endless
 With only a quarter moon left of light
 I am longing back to times of splendor
 Longing far away, away from here and back to you.
 I swagger back and forth dancing the betrayer's dance
 For the last of all times, I swear
 For the last damn time, I swear!
 I am over and through with all your lectures
 I know this is the right step to do
 Over and through with all you lectures
 I know this is the right thing to do!
 If I don't leave now I will be lost in the hot burning dungeon
 They have oh so thoroughly prepared for me to all eternity.
 Hear her whispering feel my cheek ablaze
 And I take the first step of a thousand more to come.
 There is a road that I must travel
 May it be paved or unseen
 May I be hindered by a thousand stones
 Still onward I'd crawl down on my knees.