Tuesday, 10 July 2012

Chandalier

Chandalier
in a pretty palace
lite crystal                                             SLEIGH HORSES
in a see-thru room
rose perfume                                         Sleigh horses pull
Chandalier                                             thru the snow
casts lite about the gloom                      St Petersburg
St Petersburg                                          its all they ever know
                                                                in Wintertime
                                                                its they who make the line
A million glistens
daylie listens                                           Sleigh horses pull the cart        Now's the snow
and comes back again                             on a sled that darts                    how's the snow
Chandalier shines                                    its art                                          cold to you?
to the power of ten                                   to get to destinations                now's the snow
                                                                 otherwise impassable               a world of white
                                                                 overcome every obstacle          and it can warm you
St Petersburg lites                                     of snowflake thru to ice            inspite of all
keep the daylite going                              thru Winter                               the spite
further on                                                  skis do splice                            The snow falls soft
nite time                                                                                                     ends up tite
doesn't prevent                                          Feet of the sled                         put warm clothes on
the sunshine gone                                     move instead                             you are rite
                                                                  of freezing still
                                                                  sleigh horses                             Now's the snow
Chandalier                                                 move me                                   all around
makes daylite freer                                    because they have                     carpets rite 
steers lite                                                    a greater will                            all the ground
thru moonlite nite                                       to see thru white                       its called the Spring
                                                                    nite                                           in Russia now  
                                                                    snowflake cloud                       the cold so
St Petersburg                                               sleigh horses                             extends
Petersburg lites                                           go to places                               global warming
send out a million                                       others aren't allowed                  brings more cold
shining kites                                                pass the inhospitable                 you'll understand it
and these are flites                                       sleigh horses wowed                 in the end   
that attracts at nite                                       where Anna Karenina
                                                                    was bowed.                                 When the snow
Attract to the balls                                                                                           is fenced in
the debutante calls                                                                                           children
as a lover falls                                                                                                  come out to play
on your doorstep                                                                                              its like their Summer
for you                                                                                                              they say
Chandalier                                                                                                         golden eyes
goes well                                                                                                           warm as ice
for you                                                                                                               turning everything
Chandalier                                                                                                         into nice
its the one fake thing                                                                                     
that's true                                                                                                   
it lites you up                                                                                                                               
its you.

                                                             If you think
                                                             you can make it come from ink
                                                             if you think it and believe
                                                             you can be unique as eve
                                                              beam artist

                                                               in the Russian way
                                                              Round Lake everyday
                                                               you folow in artistic way
                                                              you try to never stray


                                                              new angel in old ribbons       
                                                              agile cloudy girl
                                                               you can balance upon the world
                                                              its the Russian way to produce the flower
                                                              still unfurled

                                                              some are ballerinas of the mind
                                                              on apparatus who find
                                                              stages on which to wear their grace
                                                               with dreams upon their face

                                                               new viktors
                                                               these to be
                                                                in the Russian way

                                                               Russian way is elegant
                                                               and sublimely serene
                                                               there is a design of choreography
                                                                to detail a dream

                                                               new viktors in
                                                               the Russian way
                                                                on apparatus
                                                                ballerinas of today.
SNOW ROSES
Real rubies
snow roses
coming out in Spring
jewels of Siberia

They're free                                    Electra King
tho hard to find                               the beauty thing
you have to brave                           oil and helicopters
the weather                                     circle in a ring
bears nose them                              Electra King
all together                                      true
                                                        beauty on the face of it           Take patience
                                                        danger survives every bit        to the chess board 
Real rubies                                      of passion if it wants to           but think with speed 
snow roses                                                                                        you know that
that perfume                                    Oil and helicopters spin           head space
fragrant plain                                   and love wins                           is all that you need
that few visit                                    fall to the ground
except for those who                        you have found                       This is the game
take the strain                                    a better way to begin              in which you're freed
prisoners                                                                                            its only in your thouts
arriving on dark train                       Electra King                             that you do bleed
                                                         dangeros thing
                                                         you don't want                          You hang back
Free they are                                     to escape from                          in your decisions
if you can live                                                                                     to take the lead
under inhospitable star                     Oil and helicopters                    you draw in
free as ever anything can be              earth rotates                             indecision
brave elements and see                     and you can love                        then check
                                                          all the things you hate                you plead
                                                          you always did
They're like the blood                       if just was from you                  The game is never over
of prisoners                                       so well hid                                 even at checkmate
wrongly so accused                                                                             your fite is against
real rubies                                          Electra King                              the board
snow roses                                          dangeros thing                          it never is your mate
for garlands of death                          the hair
are used.                                            oil and helicopters spin               The game is never over
                                                           but have to come down              you take it in your head
                                                            for air.                                        live it with each breath
                                                                                                               take it to your bed

                                                                                                              This is the game you play
                                                                                                               it lasts thruout your day
                                                                                                               the game is never over
                                                                                                               its just in delay.

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