Beneath The Starry Cloak (rock/ballad)

Choose sink or swim I always sank

Whenever I could stomach

Into the murky depths of you

Where devils sob and play.

And when I woke, somehow alive,

I tried to sink again;

I danced and laughed and laughed and drank

Just floatin’ on your waves,

Wonderin’ how much more it takes?

What lofty measure saves?

The soul is just a piece of lint;

A paltry little string

The Fates’ll give not a half a glint

To flit and do it in.

But there’s much more to you it seems.

I’d sink from here to hell

Just to feel a moment of that

Cresting wave; that swell...

Fellows stand and laugh at me,

And well they should at that.

Ridiculous to try to see

Beyond a simple chat.

But sit and spill and chill and soak,

There’s more beneath the starry cloak.

And now I’ve known I can’t go back

To paddlin’ in the shallows.

So string me ’long until I hack,

Come show my nerves the gallows.

Choose sink or swim I always sank

Whenever I could stomach

Into the murky depths of you

Where devils sob and play.