Black Hills – (written 11/98)

Well the sun doesn’t set over the city anymore

Now it’s far away off in the black hills

The days pass sometimes slowly sometimes fast

And I don’t like to recognize all the Mondays that have past

No I don’t mean to start so negative

But I guess my optimism lies on pessimistic ground

Me and my dreams, countless unthinkable themes

And when we’re standing so close to the edge

You just might fall into your dreams

Well I got what I wanted

Listless and loveless in intellectual despair

But you’ve gotta walk some ditches

Before you climb the stairs

And it feels good to get my feet dirty

I’ve been walking through piles of mud

And I know when the time is right

I’ll lavish pleasure from soapy suds

Life doesn’t feel like I’m living it anymore

Now it’s lost behind the shadows of the black hills

I’ll be fine I just gotta step over that line

Open myself up emanate, it’s all up to me to decide

All things in good time

Sometimes I don’t know about you

And sometimes I don’t know about me

But I know if I took to time to open my eyes

I know exactly what I’d see

I’d see lust and greed and it’s not of my

Human being

But I realize now, It’s just another way of seeing