Window Dressing

Show me what I want to see
 If it keeps you safe
 PART ONE
 Tell me what I want to hear
 And what keeps you safe
 Talk tempts fate
 The game is engaged
 She plays with fire
 Vanity sidesteps around common senses
 Shrugging off conscience embracing pride
 Twisted scenes bring comfort in delusion
 Hide reality from the line of sight
 The harvest to intrude
 Fight proof
 Hollow her words ringing absurd
 Lies to save face compounds disgrace
 Light filters through the veil exposing guilt
 Clutch the straws of logic lost
 Hanging on the cross
 Ignorance lives in bliss with blinders on
 While it shows denial is en vogue
 Age-old wisdom's whisper dies from neglect
 Our egos to protect
 Now that I know
 How little we know
 About each other
 Tracing an image of a portrait
 That we wish was true
 But the colors run
 Faces I see
 Tell little about
 What to believe
 Layers of window dressing
 Barely hint at what's beneath
 Covered up like paint on rust
 Who to trust?
 Dress the window
 Draw the shade
 Light and darkness trade
 PART TWO
 If I can still recall
 Simplicity seemed like nothing at all
 Summertime days to spend without end
 Hazy warm faint scent of pine gracing the air
 We let our whims take us away
 Not to return as Eden drew to a close
 Careless deeds strip my faith
 Heart on ice I retreat
 I wish true were false and fiction real
 Bit by bit the mirage fades from view
 Never taught finally learned
 The corner turned
 Wish I may wish I might
 Forget illusion's charm
 Now that I know
 How little we know
 About each other
 Tracing an image of a portrait
 That we wish was true
 Fashion covers all we hope to hide
 Faces I see
 Tell little about
 What to believe
 Layers of window dressing
 Barely hint at what's beneath
 Now that I know
 How nothing we show
 Really matters
 Optimistic - pessimistic
 Expectation to blame
 PART THREE
 So much happens that we can't perceive
 Safe in a cloak of ignorance
 With passing time childish notions finally die
 When the pain we endure
 Compounds with consciousness
 Delusions to protect and survive
 Reflecting on what I know I will never know
 Curtains drawn concealing the light of truth