Saturday, 25 January 2014

Michelangelo (Anything But Real)

michelangelo (anything but real)

(c) .pd. 2008

high in a great hall long ago
the prophet michelangelo 
the sweetest torment did unfold
it's all too easy to remember

the reaching way you looked at me
it's not like i had not eyes to see
all the connecting imagery
i wonder if you still remember

chorus
how it used to be?
do you still believe
how we choose to feel
is anything but real?

not so much game as a defence
i've too much hubris for pretence
the distortions of the wish-i lens
will twist whatever you remember

but it seems clear now that i 
raised up a pedestal so high
you could not breathe in so thin a sky
i realise more than remember

chorus

but the hand of god
and the hand of adam
tho you want so much 
for the fingers to touch
it's never gonna happen

chorus

history bitches and it blames
but it teaches and it tames
we courted the spark and fanned the flames
i double dare you to remember

cuz we are poohsticks in the past
racing the rapids oh so fast
and i have built this bridge to last
so that i always will remember

chorus


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Music & lyrics by Paul B Dennis (c) August 2008
Recorded and mixed by Jason Gregory, 18th & 25th January, 2014.

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