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  • Artist Info: Counting stars on a warm night.<br />
    I swear I knew Scorpio<br />
    in days when it mattered.<br />
    If you asked me, I'd be Orpheus<br />
    and sing you from sleep.<br />
    But today, I'm only me<br />
    living on the frozen side of Mars<br />
    where life is a funny, frozen thing.<br />
    <br />
    Yesterday, I was a young man.<br />
    Today, I am a young man with an old heart,<br />
    hiding a troubled mind; vexed and overly complex,<br />
    worrying about things it shouldn't.<br />
    Things that seem a momentary matter;<br />
    a minor infraction to some.<br />
    And to others, the pattern<br />
    of a life worn thin by disappointment.<br />
    <br />
    I feel like a kid who's waiting for his ride to come.<br />
    Come on and pick me up from the back parking lot.<br />
    Behind me is a field of endless orange merrigolds.<br />
    I'm standing with a back to beauty,<br />
    listening to disonant bells chime and waiting for 10 to pass.<br />
    Come on and remind me that time<br />
    doesn't stand still for anyone.<br />
    <br />
    So I, like a restless wanderer<br />
    do wonder and dream<br />
    (But even dogs do dream.)<br />
    of a field of azure lilacs<br />
    that open beneath a sky that blooms too;<br />
    a deep, rich, amber hue<br />
    that bleeds into red,<br />
    into purple, and back into blue.<br />
    <br />
    I dreamt last night that the ocean<br />
    was a blue china plate spinning on a long thin rod;<br />
    teetering on the brink of disaster.<br />
    The fish held their breath<br />
    each time the juggler left<br />
    to see to another world that was turning.<br />
    <br />
    We all watched too<br />
    as the ocean of blue<br />
    china on a long thin rod<br />
    tumbled and flew<br />
    like the acrobats do<br />
    only landing with all the grace<br />
    that a cat at the end of its nine lives can.<br />
    <br />
    I rushed to wake up.<br />
    And looking back, I thought I saw<br />
    the mermaids shake their heads at the mess<br />
    like one who's resolved not to be upset<br />
    at the ocean of wet<br />
    blue china on a long thin floor.<br />
    <br />
    There are loud people<br />
    and there are short people...<br />
    There are tall, proud people<br />
    and there are short people...<br />
    I've walked that road, alone in the sun<br />
    in the middle of everyone.<br />
    <br />
    These dreams are but a passing thing.<br />
    And love, the end without a means.<br />
    But if you asked me, it would be sunset again.<br />
    If you wanted, I'd be Leo...<br />
    <br />
    At twenty-two minutes early I'm sitting beneath<br />
    a shadow I'm convinced I'm fond of; <br />
    on the frozen side of Mars<br />
    where life is a funny, frozen thing.<br />
    On the frozen side of Mars<br />
    waiting for Venus to rise.
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