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i like your lyrics, TM. have you met Lethe? she is trying to write the perfect song...@

With a name like that I will undoubtedly forget them again very soon... Lethe as in the River Lethe ?

TM.

i don't know, TM. what is the River Lethe? is it like the River Styx?

Drink from it's water and you forget...

*The boy looked down upon her face
as she slept
(While all around the hound dogs bayed...)
"Where are the dreams...
did you forget
The promises you made...
never to be kept!"

"Wake up!,wake up
Answer me straight
Can we find what we have lost
Or is it too late?"

The girl turned eyes of hardened steel
To the wall
(The wolves screamed their anger to the sky...)
"You told me forever...
That was all...
You're the gambler
Make the call!"

"Wake up!,wake up
Answer me straight
Can we find what we have lost
Or is it too late?"

The boy touched her hand
in the night
(The owls screeched a warning to their young...)
The girl moved closer...
held on tight...
The move was there
It felt so right!

"Wake up!,wake up
Give it me straight
We have found what we lost
It's not too late?"*

Lethe, those lyrics are so plaintive, so sad.@

Thank you

But too romantic for in here
I fear.

Bless you, Lethe. "In the firmament of time, the middle of the light, the sun and feeling free" Jon Anderson@

Well I wanted to publish the lyrics to Tony Banks' 'The Waters of Lethe' but it turned out to be an instrumental.....oopsss...

Instead :

Many too many have stood where I stand
Many more will stand here too
I think what I find strange is the way
you built me up then knocked me down again

The part was fun but now it's over
Why can't I just leave the stage ?
Maybe it's because you securely locked me up
Then threw away the key

Oh mama, please would you find the key
Oh pretty mama, please won't you let me go free
I thought I was lucky, I thought that I'd got it made
How could I be so blind...

You said goodbye on a corner
that I thought led to the straight
You set me on a firmly laid and simple course
and then removed the road

Oh mama, please could you find my way
Oh pretty mama, please lead me through the next day
I thought I was lucky, I thought that I'd got it made
How could I be so blind...


(c) Tony Banks

The story of my life!

4:30 p.m. The tube train draws to a halt. There is no station in sight. Anxious glances dart around amongst the passengers as they acknowledge each others presence for the first time.

Shazz, where's TM?@

---> TM <---

High on this mountain
the clouds down below
I'm feeling so strong and alive
From this rocky perch
I'll continue to search
for the wind and the snow and the sky
I want a lover
and I want some friends
and I want to live in the sun
And I want to do all the things that I never have done...

Sunny bright mornings and pale moonlit nights
keep me from feeling alone
Now I'm learning to fly
and this freedom is like
nothing that I've ever known
I've seen the bottom and I've been on top
but mostly I've lived in between
And where do you go when you get to the end of your dream ?

Off in the Netherlands I heard a sound
like the beating of heavenly wings
And deep in my brain I can hear a refrain
of my soul as she rises and sings
Anthems to glory and anthems to love
and hymns filled with eartly delight
Like the songs that the darkness composes
to worship the light...

Once in a vision I came on some woods
and stood at a fork in the road
My choices were clear
yet I froze with the fear
of not knowing which way to go
One road was simple
acceptance of life
The other road offered sweet dreams
When I made my decision my vision became my release...

'Netherlands' (c)Dan Fogelberg 1977

Very nice!