I KNOW YOU RIDER

Could be a story or it could be true
Could be about me, it could be about you
I’ve lost so many reasons for things I think I’ve done
If I thought this pride of fools
Called the shots and made the rules
I’d take a flying leap back to the place from where I came
I know you, rider, but I love you just the same

You’ve been trying to break a code
You’ve been trying to drop a load
You’ve been carrying your own mountain
Past the point of no return
You’ve been living where the sun goes down
Where what goes around, comes around
They say a storm is brewing but they won’t give it a name
I know you, rider, but I love you just the same

Waves are lapping like a big dog’s tongue
Just like it happened back when we were young
You’re not here to solve the problems of the world
Standing on the corner with your wings pinned back
Barefoot and pregnant on a mountain path
Screaming to the heavens like a keeper of the flame
I know you, rider, but I love you just the same

I know you, rider, like a dreamer knows his hand
Like a rose that grows you’ll come to know I’m your biggest fan

In the velvet afterglow of memory I go
Footloose and funny in the shadow of the show
I hear you whisper there ain’t no wind at all
You made it here without a map
All the stars smile behind your back
You tremble at the mention of the One who has no name
I know you, rider, but I love you just the same

HOLD ON AS SHE GOES

Outside The Golden Lantern hoboes wear no clothes
They set a certain standard I’m gonna go below
Look at the faceless wonder blowing through the rye
Tripping ‘cross the tundra, thrilling to the sky

The pouring rain keeps saying hold on as she goes
There’s no time to waste in this Holy place
Hold on as she goes

The milk of human kindness warming in the sun
How better to remind us, nothing will be done

The pouring rain keeps saying hold on as she goes
There’s no time to waste in this Holy place
Hold on as she goes

Outside The Golden Lantern the fires have gone cold
The homeless search the ashes for the things they’ve been told

The pouring rain keeps saying hold on as she goes
There’s no time to waste in this Holy place
Hold on as she goes