Unreleased

I'm a moody and swirling pool, lost in some dark wood
Angry at a million things and more
I can do no good
Ah, but sometimes -

Sometimes i'm a growing blade of grass
Washed by the rain, bent by the wind

I'm a deeply wounded lonely tree
Lost in my own way
Brooding on the saddest things and worse
I've seen my better day

I'm an old and broken tumbleweed
Lost on faded sands
Dreaming of my yesterdays before
I watch the heat waves dance

Now that it's time
Now that the hour hand has landed at the end
Now that it's real
Now that the dreams have given all they had to lend
I want to know
Do i stay or do i go
And maybe try another time
And do i really have a hand in my forgetting

Now that i've tried
Now that i've finally found that this is not the way
Now that i turn
Now that i feel it's time to spend the night away
I want to know
Do i stay or do i go
And maybe finally split the rind
And do i really understand the undernetting

Yes and the morning has me looking in your eyes and seeing mine
Warning me to read the signs carefully

Now that it's love
Now that the candle's falling smaller in my mind
Now that it's here
Now that i'm almost not so very far behind
I want to know
Do i stay or do i go
And maybe fall another side
And do i really have a sound that i can ride on

Now that i can
Now that it's easy ever easy all around
Now that i'm near
Now that i'm falling to the sunlights and to song
I want to know
Do i stay or do i go
And do i have to do just one
And can i choose again if i should lose the reason

Yes and the morning has me looking in your eyes and seeing mine
Warning me to read the signs oh carefully

Now that i smile
Now that i'm laughing even deeper in the side
Now that i see
Now that i finally found the one thing i denied
I want to know
Do i stay or do i go
And it is finally i decide
That i'll be leaving in the fairest of the seasons

Lovely, lovely, did you see me
Just as i was crying
Love me lovely, make it easy
What i say is hard but i am trying

Lovely, lovely, can you hear me
Listen to my singing
Love me lovely, while you're near me
Try and understand the thought i'm bringing

Last night i was sleeping
But i did not know if i'd awaken today
Lie in my keeping, only know
That i can't stay after today
I'm on my way - love me lovely
Love me lovely

Lovely, lovely, you can't fool me
I know that you need me
Love me, lovely, now and truly
Knowing that your love can only speed me

Don't say how it could be
Or i'll know that you'll be crying today
Just how it should be i don't know
So this i'll say
I'm on my way - love me lovely
Love me lovely

Last night i was sleeping
But i did not know if i'd awaken today
Lie in my keeping, only know
That i can't stay after today
I'm on my way - love me lovely
Love me lovely

Talk with me
I believe that we can find a tomorrow
Lend to me and i will try to borrow
I can see you and me
Love is free
We can be free

Sing with me
Melodies that soar as high as a swallow
I can lead the way if you will follow
I can see you and me
Love is free
We can be free

You show me
Words of beauty that describe your love
Let me know the things that you are sure of
I can see you and me
Love is free
We can be free

You know me
I'm as reckless as a mountain stream
Careless as a could-be, someday dream
I can see you and me
Love is free
We can be free

I'm standing here and hoping for you
Holding my door open for you now
Ask just what you will of me
I'll bend just like a willow tree
And now i'm holdin'
Holdin' my door open to the wind

Well seven times she came to me
And each time seemed the same to me
She knows just what to ask me now
And i can't help but wonder how
And now i'm holdin'
Holdin' my door open before the wind

I wrote my name upon the sands
With questioningly weary hands
The tide arose and answered me
And washed my name into the sea
And now i'm holdin'
Holdin' my door open before the wind

We see him dancing in the morning
Stars depart the yawning sky
He'll take the hour that is passing
And leave it in his lover's eye
And if you want he'll make it seem
As though you're walking in his dream
A mystic sea

We hear him laughing in the shadows
As he smuggles in the sand
He's found another kind of color
In the magic he has donned
And if you want he'll take the time
To ask the sun and moon to rhyme
And then combine
He draws no lines between what he's imagining

The days of spring have just begun
And melted snow begins to run
Aspen is a fine place where many people go
And so you're bound for colorado

Don't send me cards from where you've been
Or tell me 'bout the friends you win
But send to me a new leaf just begun to grow
And hurry home from colorado

You told me once that you would like to run away
>from all the fears and all the tears you felt that day
You should know no matter where you go
You have your friends to lean upon
When you're not sure what's goin' on

And if you don't return by the summer i will know
You've found a home in colorado
And you're doing fine in colorado

Love and learn
Take your turn
Somewhere there's a feather
Falling slowly from the sky
You need not know the reason why

Stand apart
Hear your heart
Someday there will be another lover to the end
You need not hold your breath 'til then

Don't ask me to explain to you
There's nothing to remain but what we see

Fall and climb
Take your time
Somehow you must live up to the precedents you've set
You need not hope for answers yet

Don't ask me how i know it now
The future does not show itself to me

So love and learn
Take your turn
Somewhere there's a feather
Falling slowly from the sky
You need not know the reason why

I could write for you
A song about the warming of september
But i couldn't really give to you
That month in the spring

And i could write for you
Melodies dedicated to the seasons
But i'd be caught behind
Remembering a reason not to sing

And the music would accompany
The words it brings along
Why should i try
How can i try
I can't give you the seasons in a song

I could paint for you
A picture with a swirling world of color
But i couldn't really give to you
The brush strokes of my mind

And in my ticker-tape parade
All the memories of all my failures
Would be summoned in
And made to walk a step or two behind

And models seldom find themselves
In portraits that i've drawn
But i have cried
And not denied
That my colors aren't clear enough in song

You ask of me
What's a word that rhymes with all your confusion
Don't you think that's just a little bit
Unusual to ask

Once you asked of me
Once before what is a word for all your crying
But you were laughing at me all the time
Behind your tragic mask

Now you ask me and my friends
If you can pack and come along
Why should i try
How can i try
If you can follow the honesty in song

So i'll go skipping through
All my daydreams at a thousand miles an hour
And i'll try to sort things out
Into an order if i can

I've got a couple things to do
Before i come and talk to you again
Well i'll meet you in a dream or two
Down by the borderland

I've got a necessary game to play
And changes to go through
It's time to go, time to go
So it's so long, farewell

And i'll be seeing you

This song appears on the album for everyman as "these days" with slightly different lyrics".

I've been out walking
I don't do too much talking these days
These days
These days i seem to think a lot
About the things that i forgot to do
And all the times i had the chance to

I stopped my ramblin'
I don't do too much gamblin' these days
These days
These days i seem to think about
How all the changes came about my way
And i wonder if i'll see another highway

And i had a lover
I don't think i'll risk another these days
These days
And if i seem to be afraid
To live the life that i have made in song
Well it's just 'cause i've been losing so long

Well i'll stop my dreamin'
I don't do too much schemin' these days
These days
These days i'll sit on cornerstones
And count the time in quartertones to ten
Please don't confront me with my failures
I had not forgotten them

It's been raining here in long beach
The dampness in the air
Tends to straighten out my hair
Against my wishes
But the traces of a song reach
My tattered ear once more
Lend me courage to ignore
The smell of fishes

I was a drunken lout, i ran about
With ladies that i knew
I did 'em wrong all night long
Singing 23 skidoo

Huzahh...huzahh...
Once upon a time i was a kid
Well i don't know what happened then
But i'm warning all you younger men
On your way to long beach think again
You can't afford to settle down in long beach

I had a rack and coat, a paddle boat
I played the ukelele
Beneath the moon in june i'd croon
Won't you come on home little baby

Huzahh...huzahh...
Once upon a time i was a kid
But now my hair is turning gray
I'm getting fatter every day
If you got any sense you'll stay away
And never give another thought to long beach
And never give a moment's thought to long beach

My head is in the forest
And i'm thinking about you
The mist is pulling lightly on the timber
My thoughts are of the forest
And i'm sure i'm not in view
Of anyone but the dragon
And the prince of song

I cannot see the daytime
For my head is in the night
The fog is gently swaying on the moor now
I hardly know the difference
>from the dark into the light
Since i was with the dragon
It's been far too long

My feet can't keep my thoughts
>from running out on me this time
The haze is passing fully 'cross the skyline
Where's the girl to hold me
To the boundaries of my mind
Princess with bag of crystal
That's where i belong

Now will my head stay with the night
And watch the chance i take
All the dew has gathered on the heather
Will i go to sleep again
Or will i stay awake
Let me linger with the dragon
And the prince of song

Well it's funny you should ask me how i feel
As the scenes before my eyes begin to reel
I can't remember how long i cried
I can't remember how hard i tried
Turned my thoughts away from you
Like i had something else to do
And now i find you here

And it's funny you should want to see me now
Well i'd refuse you but i can't remember how
I can't remember how long i cried
I can't remember how hard i tried
I'd tell myself i didn't care
That i was down and you weren't there
You've been away so long

And it's funny you should want to know my plans
As the future disappears beneath my hands
I can't remember how long i cried
I can't remember how hard i tried
Now i'll cast aside my memories
And shut you out most bitterly
I'm down on my last smile

I've been up all night
I've been writing this letter
And i think i might have found a better way
To tell you all the things i've got to say
I put it in writing and you'll get it in the mail today

Well i don't know but i can't help feeling
That you got to stop your double-dealin' ways
Cheatin' on me is a crime that never pays
And that's all in the letter and you'll get it in the mail today

Well i would tell you to your face
But you'd just lie to me
Put you in your place
But you'd just try to defy me

Been up all night
Pencil and a paper
And i think i might have found a safer way
Say goodbye without much more delay
Well it's all in the letter and you'll get it in the mail today
I don't mean tomorrow
It's all in the letter and you'll get it in the mail today
I don't mean no western union
It's all in the letter and you'll get it in the mail today