CHILLBLIND

Part I
Time is passing quickly --- time is racing by without a sound
And pretty soon I know it, another year will have spun round
but I’m not feeling quite so bitter --- no urge to break this mirror
maybe black will come white
and I won’t be so deaf and dumb
and I won’t be Chillblind
I awoke late one Sunday --- and I had been reborn that day
Into your smile, my past lives went fading and I could love again
I’m not feeling quite so bitter --- no urge to break this mirror
maybe black will come white
and I won’t be so deaf and dumb
and I won’t be Chillblind

Part II
Mysteries locked in memory are fading away fast ---
knowledge and images held captive in the past.
Time, the careless jailer lost the key or changed the locks
and waltzing down the corridor, he worries not about the cost.

Part III
The Spangled Pandemonium is missing from the zoo ---
I am young and should not fear and neither should you
not a word I heard can I relate --- (I’ve never been to Spain)
pretty pink I chose for you to greet you off the train.
Passion & Patience; the children of Mammon (Snow White/Rose Red)
drank fire with the king of the blues and the glorious dead.
A river of burning consciousness in the valley of my mind
sending out shivers of fire into the cold and empty night.
Sink a look my eyes --- they’ll tell you so many goddamn lies!
Sink a look my eyes --- they’ll tell you that there’s no reprise!
IT’S TRUE

Reprise
Oh curse your tireless Father --- he will never understand
In the gardens of renewal I am exiled --- who am I in this land?
well I’m not feeling quite so bitter --- no urge to break this mirror
maybe black will come out white
and I won’t be so deaf and dumb
and I won’t be Chillblind
Oh, please don’t leave me again that way ---
Please don’t leave me again that way ---
I will bide my time
I will bite my tongue ---
BITE MY TONGUE.