Scarlet's Walk lyrics

On my way up North
Up on the Ventura I pulled back the hood and I was talking to you
And I knew then it would be a life long thing but I didn't know that we
We could break a silver lining

And I'm so sad
Like a good book I can't put this day back
A sorta fairytale with you
(A sorta fairytale with you)
A sorta fairytale with you
(Oh)
(Oh)

Things you said that day
Up on the 1

Well He lit you up
like Amber Waves in his
movie show
He fixed you up real good
till I don't know you anymore
from Ballet Class to a Lap Dance
straight to video
And the pool side news
was that he would be
launching you

Into every young man's
Bedroom -- you gave it up
on DVD and magazine --
you gave it up
a private rite of passage --
you gave it up
to every boy's sweet dream

you caught me lingering
in another girl's paradise
the way she paints the world --
i want that in my life
emeralds, you should know,
are renting in her meadow
with a stroke beauty lives
how could i resist you are desire
when it all is said, said and done
who can love you and still be standing
there's mary calling up a storm
can i take from you and not keep taking

Carbon-made found her at the end of a chain
"Time to race" she said
"Race the downhill"

Behind crystalline irises
Loons can dive
Where the world bleeds white

Just keep your eyes on her
Keep don't look away

Keep your eyes on
Her horizon

Bear Claw, Free Fall, a Gunner's View
Black and blue
Shred in ribbons of lithium

Blow by blow her mind cut in sheets
Layers deep

not sayin'
not charmed at all
not sayin'
that you weren't worth
the fall
and i was alone when
i knew it was real
down the canyon
when i knew i had come

to the line
through the dawn
to the light
to the turn
when you said

you could drive
all night
drive all night

so i let Crazy
take a spin
then i let Crazy
settle in
kicked off my shoes
shut reason out

don't make me come to vegas
don't make me pull you out of his bed
i am vigilant that it will not be
you on the menu he's serving up for his friends
don't make me come to vegas
don't make me pull him out of your head
athena will attest
that it could be done
and it has been done
and i think that i am up to it
and the jacaranda tree
is telling me of the trouble you're in
just by the way

sights and sounds
pull me back down
another year

i was here
i was here

whipping past
the reflecting pool
me and you
skipping school

and we make it up
as we go along
we make it up we
go along

you said -
you raced from langley -
pulling me underneath
a cherry blossom
canopy
-do i have-
of course i have,
beneath my raincoat,
i have your photographs.
and the sun on your

From here
no Lines are
drawn
From here
no lands
are owned
13,

life lines and suicide
crimes--
he found me in a state
grabbed my purse and
hitched a Ride
with a mrs. jesus
"how you been"
I've been cruisin'
a good invention
but in some ways
I don't think it gets
any easier

your walking
on the water Bit
by far my
favorite one,
But now
it seems
we're drowning
in a
drop of water
Love
and even as
I'm climbing up the stairs
I know there's Heaven
there

I'm not sure who's fooling who here
As I'm watching your decay
We both know you could deflate
A 7 hurricane
Seems like you and your tribe
Decided you'd rewrite the law
Segregate the mind
From body from soul

You give me yours
I'll give you mine
'Cause I can look your god
Right in the eye
You give me yours
I'll give you mine
You used to look my god
Right in the eye

if you're a thought
you will want me
to think you
and i did
invited a guest up until
you announced that
you had moved in
"what do you plan to do with all your freedom?"
the new sheriff said,
quite proud of his badge
"you must admit the land is now in good hands"
yes, time will tell
that you just lit your lamp

i will follow her on her path
scarlet's walk through the violets

strange
Thought I knew you well
Thought I had read the sky
Thought I had read a change
in your eyes
so strange
Woke up to a world
that I am
not a part
except when I can
play it's stranger

After all what were you
really looking for and I wonder
when will I learn
when will I learn
Blue isn't red
everybody knows this
and I wonder
when will I learn
when will I learn
guess I was in

i know
you know every desperado
and sharp shooter
in the west you say
that i can't see behind
the mask of those who call themselves
the good guys
in this who take and take
"so are you with me or not you say
this time decide"
balmy days sweet sangria
she's been gone
have you seen her
señorita shyly turning away
leaving me our fading flame
yeah you think about that

lily is dancing
on the table
we've all been
pushed
too far
i guess on days
like this
you know who your
friends are
just another dead fag
to you that's all
just another light missing
on a long taxi ride
taxi ride

and i'm down to
your last cigarette and
this "we are one" crap
as you're invading
this thing you call
love - she smiles
way too much but
i'm glad you're

in the lush virginia hills
they kept her as long as they could
cause they knew when the white brother
found white shell beads
wrapped around her skin --
a life giving river --
her body open as will his hand
and with a "goodbye" there she goes

she may betray all that she loves
and even wait for their savior to come
and in some things, maybe he'll be right

In our hand
an old old old thread
Trail of Blood
and Amens
Greed is the gift
for the sons
of the songs
Hear this prayer
of the wampum
This is the tie
that will bind us

Nothing here to fear
I'm just sitting around
being foolish when
there is work to be done
Just a hang-up call
and the quiet breathing
of our Persian we call
Cajun on a Wednesday

so we go from year to year
with secrets we've been keeping
Though you say you're not a Templar man

Seems as if we're circling
for very different reasons
But one day the Eagle has to land

Out past the fountain

where the river cross
crosses the lake
where the words
jump off my pen
and into your pages
do you think
just like that
you can divide
this you as yours
me as mine to
before we were us
if the rain has to separate
from itself
does it say "pick out your cloud?"
pick out your cloud
if there is
a horizontal line
that runs from the map
off your body
straight through the land