A Shifting Perspective

It was just today
The sun was shining on your face and in your eyes
and through your sadness
It warmed the hands you slid across me
Momentarily it blinded me,
I could not see
But it left me no less lost
And more alone than ever,
so you'd say

I'm hitching a ride down south
The river is pulling me from the sea
I'm searching for a man in a city of glass
Hopelessly waiting for the dawn to appear
Sad sapless storyteller songbird
Your secret's not so strange
Blow your fears into the wind,
like smoke on a ray of light
Don't forget your past

The full moon calls you by name
Your priorities are crooked
You must be fooling me
I swam through oceans of fog to be here
Crept through a breathing rainforest
Echoing your song in my head
Oh, it's only the night I dread
Uncertainty blooms in dark shades,
turning your dreams into nightmares

Creatures, monstrous creatures
Leviathans in the depths all around me
Rain is slanting through the redwoods,
falling softly on a dreary coast
Tentacles rise up from the bay
Rushing to greet my wandering feet
Murmurs of desire in the thick night air
I'm drowning all my sorrows in the Columbia
Selling my soul for gas fare