Never to Heaven

May my eyes always stay level to the horizon may they never gaze as high as heaven, to ask why May I never go where angels fear to tread so as to have to ask for answers in the sky The whys in this lifetime I've found are inconsequential compared to the magic of the nowness - the solution to most questions there are no reasons And if there are - I'm wrong but at least I won't have spent my life waiting looking for God in the clouds of the dawn I'll be up early to rise though of course - but only to make you a pot of coffee That's what I was thinking this morning Joe that it's times like this as the marine layer lifts off the sea from the view of our favorite restaurant that I pray that I may always keep my eyes level to your eyeline never downcast at the table cloth You see, Joe it's times like this that the marine layer lifts off the sea on the dock without candle lit that I think to myself there are things you still don't know about me like sometimes I'm afraid my sadness is too big and that one day you might have to help me handle it But until then may my eyes always stay level to the skyline assessing Long Beach's glittering new development never higher than the tallest building never to heaven or revenant 'Cause I have faith in man as strange as that seems in times like these and it's not just because of the warmth I've found in your brown eyes It's because I believe in the goodness in me that it's firm enough to plant a flag in or a rosebud or to build a new life.