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