Thirteen Gliding Principles

If you care / Do you run

Not to stare / For your fun

Light the light / Or do you slide

And take the time / The underside

I've been there / Lock the door

I have stared / Wax the floor

And I have seen / Shine the shine

Things unseen / From indoors

Take it back / Did you choose

Heart attack / To amuse

A setting sun / Did you leave a smile?

What we've begun

Where you fall / You hit the ground

Children saw / Without a sound

About your life / You planned it from the start

Jesus wept

I don't decide it, I only abide by it

Keep me beside you and I will confide

Simply the sound of it carries me down with it

Plain on the outside and coloured inside

Things we've said / Could you say

When we're dead / You haven't paid

Dragons fed / Watch your words

And unfed / As they're relayed

Take the car / Falsify

Drive it far / What went by

Drive it far / Glorify the same

Stay out

Exiled years / You're twice the years

Forty fears / Half the fears

No one came / The middle man

No one stayed / Is not so clear

About your life / You hit the ground

About your wife / Without a sound

It's got to end / You planned it from the start

I don't decide it, I only abide by it

Keep me beside you and I will confide

Simply the sound of it carries me down with it

Plain on the outside and coloured inside

Look what you've left me, your bottles of camomile

Funny old phrases and outdated style

At least I'll be clean with it, sliding at ease with it

First to the finish, last on the floor