Trouble
(c) 2003 Brian Madison

Hello babe I hate to wake you
But I can't go on like this
Spent my life 'til I was broke
What have I learned, what have I missed?
Alas the fire of corporate man-sharks
Does not burn within my blood
And more and more it feels like I am
Running in a flood

Frightened by the pace of time
Too much prose, too little rhyme
I see another year go racing by
Losing hair and losing sleep
Honey I'm in trouble deep
Lately fear that even reason
Cannot ease my troubled mind

With all the time I spend in service
Of somebody else's dreams
And all the years spent marking time
In stacks of unread magazines
Trading all my precious hours
For a chance to scale a wall
I finally see how vanity makes
Asses of us all

So much riding on this dime
So many clocks, so little time
Thought that I would be retired by now
A little scotch to ease the pain
Too little sunshine, too much rain
Lately fear that even reason
Cannot ease my troubled mind

I can't shake this nervous cough
My whole foundation lays in ruins
Don't think I'll go to work today
Can I stay home and lick my wounds?
Maybe I'll go searching for
My tattered and discarded soul
And come back with an answer which will
Finally make me whole

We live, we die, we wonder why
And yet, receive no firm reply
The noise gets louder in my head
I feel this growing sense of dread
I cannot hide and I'm afraid
This was a day the Lord had made
Spent burned-out on my private Hell
And I'm not sure I used it well

When we finally faced those questions
Few would ever dare to ask
We left that manic carousel
That cheap gold ring beyond our grasp
But what we want is different now
How far we've come we stop and see
And suddenly we realize
We're where we need to be

And we don't need to be important
If this is all, then that's alright
Quite content, we feel successful
When we kiss our son goodnight
We see ourselves as works in progress
We may fall short of our ideal
But like the rabbit in the story
Love will make us real

Through the valley hand-in-hand
Fear no shadows in our plan
It's been such a long time since I've cried
Passing through our greatest fears
Anticipating coming years
Lately feel that maybe you can
Help me ease my troubled mind

Dreams forgotten, paths abandoned
Many things we'll never do
But you can dance for me, my love
And I will play my songs for you
We've shed so much along the way babe
From many burdens we are freed
And in the end we'll surely carry
Only what we need

Should we make our great escape
Sell it all and move away
I'm comfortable with peace and quiet now
Living one day at a time
Moving closer to sublime
Now I know that you and I will
Help me ease my troubled mind


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