open, open are my doors
as empty books i see the stars
in all the space inside my world
I'll make a page for where you are
as i'm getting old, I'll carry the cold away
for the last few forevers couldn't fill the space
inside my books I hold ideas and days
that never will be and never keep their place
and toward oblivion I fall
and for the moment I am all
hold me up
for I fear for you
inside my head, inside my heart
inside the space where you are
hold me up
for I fear I'll fall apart
inside my head, inside my heart
inside the space where you are
as I'm getting old, I'll carry the cold away
for the last few forevers couldn't fill the space
inside my books I hold ideas and days
that never will be and never keep their place
I won't hear you from the stratosphere
i can't, i can't
I can't even remember what day it is
or the week or the year
I can't say your words come as a complete surprise
leaving here will hurt me more than you'd surmise
but I'll take to the skies
'cause all I need is you and me
so why don't you take those pretty wings
and come on up?
you can't hear me
you don't care
warn me again, I almost kept my cool this time
oh
life isn't fair
I won't hear you, I won't care
I can't even remember what day it is
I won't hear you, no
I can't, I can't, I can't even remember
(I can't say, no I can't stay sane)
(Leave me alone)
[Sample from poem "A Supermarket In California" by Allen Ginsburg]
"What thoughts I have of you tonight..."
"... for I walked down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon.
"In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went into the neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations!"
Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, [fade out]
keep your wings on your back
color your life with paint strokes blue and purple and green and black
even the universe loses its way sometimes
search for yourself through a lens
an aperture drilling pinpoints into your head
but it won't kill the silence, no
the radio isn't all out there that's dead
(even the universe loses its way sometimes)
you say I won't see you, you take all the blame
but the truth is I love you so much it hurts to remember your name
you always knew I'd stay on the ground
open doors just scare me
still you run off and orbit all around my head like a real spacepony
and I was never prouder
but still there's nopony here to hold me
but the truth is I love you so much it hurts to remember your name
"Are you my Angel?"
"We strode down the open corridors together..."
"Where are we going?"
"Will we walk all night through solitary streets?"
"The trees add shade to shade, lights out in the houses, we’ll both be lonely."
What is this place that we have found you?
what are the ways we can say, "I love you"?
at the end of a rainbow
how could she forget your name?
no
... it hurts so much to remember your name
but the truth is it hurts so much to remember your name
close the door
I'm keeping all the bad thoughts out I'm never letting darkness grow again
and after all
I'm never leaving you alone just let me come and carry you back home
we made a place for where you'll be
the worlds are open doors through which you see
and I don't care for prophecy
will you come home and say you love me?
toward oblivion
everybody falls sometimes
it doesn't mean you're dead and gone away
(away, away)
at the end of the rainbow,
how could I forget your name?
at the end of the rainbow,
how could you forget your name?
[Sample from poem "Old Angel Midnight" by Jack Kerouac]
"Friday afternoon in the universe, in all directions in and out.."
"...you got your men women dogs children horses pones tics perts parts pans pools palls pails parturiences..."
"... and petty theiveries that turn into Heavenly Buddha -"
"I know boy what's I talking about case I made the world & I made it I no lie..."
"...& Old Angel Midnight for my name and concocted up a world so nothing you had forever therefore make believe its real - "
"But thats alright because now everything'll be alright & we'll soothe the forever boys and girls..."
"... & before we're thru we'll find a name for his (darn) Golden Eternity & tell a story too..."
"'What other planet features this?' & he answers 'What other planet?'"
"... tho the sounds of the entire world are now swimming thru this window from Mrs. McCartiola's twandow"
"and Ole Poke's home dronk again & acourse you hear the cats wailing in the wailbar..."
"wildbar wartfence moonlight midnight..."
"... matches the silverage everlasting swarmswallying in a simple broom - "
" And at night ya raise the square white light from your ghost beneath a rootdrinkin tree & Coyote won't hear ya"
"but you'll ward off the inexistency devils..."
"just to pass the time away & meanwhile its timeless to the end of the last lightyear"
"it might as well be getting late..."