a story to tell

Who will for told

This waking hour

Where foot has tread

Where man has power

Where life has breath

Each every hour

 

Who will for told

Who will for told

 

Who will for told

The day light dreams

Of battles fort between the reams

My pen must write

Or so it seems

 

Who will for told

Who will for told

 

Who will for told

My strength may break

I must tell all before too late

My passion bold

I must not break

 

Who will for told

Who will for told

 

Who will for tell

These prison bars

Where men are scarred

By poisoned darts

And dreams lie dead

Like apple carts

 

Who will for tell

Who will for tell

 

Who told you that?

All men live equal

In death they die

To see a sequel

To herald messiah’s

Final call

 

Who told you that?

Who told you that?

 

 

 

 

And now you’re old

And live in hell

The sounding of the brazen bell

No comfort or a page to tell

 

Now you are old

Now you are old

 

What will you do?

When death strikes you

From coronary

Or over powering blues

Will you have strength

To tie your shoes

 

What will you do?

What will you do?

 

Where will you go?

This side of black

Where people say

No turning back

Amid dead flowers

By rail road tracks

 

Where will you go?

Where will you go?

 

And after all is said and done

The moon the stars

The setting sun

No more the lights

To light your way

Or starts and fits to

Start your day

Or helps you pray

By day by day

 

All said and done

All said and done

 

Who will for tell

Of men who dream

By lazy boating fishing streams

Where all is gay

And one long dream

 

Who will for tell

Who will for tell

 

 

Who knows the answers

To reasons why

Who can foretell the lowing sky?

Who has the power

To live not die

 

Tell who knows why

Tell who knows why

 

And while we’re at it

Why do birds in the sky

Fly in arrow head

And do not lie

Like evening shadow

Criss cross the sky

 

Please tell me why

Please tell me why

 

If man can put man on the moon

And India has months of monsoon

And all the ice caps melting soon

 

Please tell me why

Please tell me why

 

And last of all

I have to confess

Life’s harder than

A driving test

So get in gear

And do your best

 

I’ll be back real soon

Be back real soon.