Almost Gone (Brown)
Sometimes I feel like I'm almost gone
gone like tears burned away in the sun
Who would wait here for some chariot in flames
as if fire would free what the flood lingered on?
Sometimes I feel like I'm almost gone
Sometimes I feel like a bird in the clouds
thinking I'd left the home of my father unbowed
to find how the dreams on our eyelids returned
how they reach with a sigh through the flickering dawn
Sometimes I feel like I'm almost gone
True Believer, you're a beacon to me
a light in the window, a long night of calm
Though we part in the wood I remember your care
of my vestigial wings and I vow to be strong
Sometimes I feel like I'm almost gone
Early in sunshine I shrank from the rooms
of forbidding ghosts of women and men
who loved once or sang of the wind in their hands
now these are my ghosts and these are my songs
Sometimes I feel like I'm almost gone
Sometimes I feel like I'm almost gone
Gone is burning the length of my tongue
Who would believe, True Believer, that we
could live without wings, just the will to move on
Sometimes I feel like I'm almost gone
All songs © 2009 SHANGHAI LOVE MOTEL
