Lost Verses

[Verse 1] I came out from under her warm sheets Into the brisk late October If only for one last hope Not wanting my time with you to be over I'm staring up into the sky While all the rain is pouring downward I'm reaching out for your help While evil beings hold me backward [Pre-Chorus] All shapes and shadows move in and out And hover 'round my bed Voices arrive and disappear I want to talk to them Darkness disintegrates, I'm rising I'm rising toward a light A light leading over hills and meadows [Verse 2] I've risen up from the dead With the burning leaves of autumn If only for one last chance At all of whom I've been defeated To put on my father's wool coat To smell my mother's fragrances and perfumes To find my young brothers and sisters To never leave or let them go [Pre-Chorus] Houses adorned so beautifully The Marin headland sun Lost verses well up my eyes and ears A lone mandola strums On Tamalpais, warm springs The many places we Laid down in sleepy, hidden shadows [Chorus] I see you well and clear Deep in the moonlight dear Your radiant August eyes They are the suns that rise They are the light that lies in these lost verses [Verse 3] I came up from under the ocean Evaporated sea salt water A mist above the skyline I haunt the streets of San Francisco Watch over loved ones and old friends I see them through their living room windows Shaken by fear and worries I want them to know how I love them so [Pre-Chorus] Foghorns will sound and wake you Is it my voice you hear? Footsteps are moving across the floor And you know I'm near Laughter carries up from the hills And you are well and clear To fall into the light I followed [Chorus] I feel you oh so near When morning doves appear And gusts of April rain Echo and refrain Soon finding their place in these lost verses [Outro] They fill the foggy days That hide the hills away That steal our time They are the picturesque night The casting city lights On the bay flowing into the ocean glowing