The Road Is Wider Than It's Long

I saw a shadow lady,

Calling up the wind

And a Spanish boy

who called out the fishes for to swim

Scarlet at the fairgound said:

"You joskins got it wrong."

 

The road is wider than it's long.

 

I was searching for the searchers

In my father's telling eyes

And I followed the old path

In the golden morning light

My love she turned and left me

With all I've left, a song.

 

The road is wider than it's long.

 

I heard tell tale of migrants 

In a mire of misery

In a corner of a wishing well

Where a stairway used to be

Written in a voice that pertains to pass it on.

 

The road is wider than it's long.

 

I read of hatted suitors

Who lied to tell your truth

Denying their allegiance to the

Death of Sister Ruth

Paying off the border gaurds

Who don't know their right from wrong

 

The road is wider than it's long.

 

I overheard a dentist

Who stood reciting gold

Retelling his lost cargo

That love can never hold

For it burns the heart of captains

Who fall into its metal sun

 

The road is wider than it's long.

 

I read the markings of tracks

Of an animal of tears

Who had been living next door

In disguise for years

Who cried I would have come out dancing

But had nothing to put on.

 

The road is wider than it's long.

 

I saw a Doctor dressed to kill

With a dishonest hand to play

Stating there's only one diagnosis

It's ;ways been that way

You can sell it with a light touch

But you know when the light goes on.

 

The road is wider than it's long.

 

I saw a film of a ghost

Who forgot his worn out lines

So he made up someone else's 

And began his pantomime

For no one in particular

But a voice said

"That's the bomb!"

 

The road is wider than it's long.

 

A picked up a picture of a shadow

Of a girl whose now grown up

And someone gives out prizes

For the punter with least luck

And he winds down his window

Saying look around before it's gone.

 

The road is wider than it's long.