Letter To Alan Lyrics

Letter To Alan lyrics

When it's time for your reflection

 As you wait till help arrives

 See our good friend's face on the dashboard

 And to know you cannot leave that cab alive

 Do you know I reach for you, from later times

 

 Once I knew

 Once I knew

 Now I'm walking

 Now I'm walking in the dark

 Like bells our dogs are yelling

 All across Centennial Park

 And the Sunday morning light just sends me blind

 And I'm only feeling useless

 Cause there's nothing I can blame

 Every person, thing and circumstances

 That moves this perfect day

 You've left behind

 

 And I'm thinking

 Christmas 1982

 Round this time a year ago

 Gaskill sold his boat

 And headed for the Cross to sink a few

 Never trust a Wayside Chapel crowd

 On Christmas Eve

 They must be entertained

 And if a stranger does the dying

 That's O.K.!

 

 And I'm sitting in a hotel room

 Along Rue St. Louis

 Dialing old phone-numbers down the line

 And I measure my position

 To the obstacles we crossed

 The territory covered

 And the parties that we lost

 Those were the days

 

 And if I don't hang around

 Our old gambling grounds

 It does not mean that I've forgotten

 We believed, and I still do