A new kind of man With a new kind of song Sounds crashing through The shadow of your smile Moved us in mysterious ways. You moved through everything moved through our lives Brought us through the underpass To the light of this side of paradise Like all the words you meant to say You never wanted to be changed Your songs were played even when Our lives were turned 'round' at night Offering tangents, wandering around Drifting music like a pointerless painting You stradled two worlds John And asked us to remember you this way The three reasons we never knew Washing up on this musical shore Tides rose and flowed while we grew with you The landscape of todays sound scenes Have no golden section without you Hanging in the air till we hear you once more Hoping that you've just been hiding in plain sight Bring the sanctuary man back to this aural cathedral The semaphore echoes that poured through your suit Of dreams discovered in an abandoned flat Echoes of an imaginary city that doesn't care Where the family is a memory in an astral realm The sound of a door opening and closing in time Synchronus simultaneous lives to work to play Moving far away and uderground to the twelfth nation Where ever you are you've given more than can be repaid I see you waving in the light illuminating the night Like the twins and the ghost we've left this world behind
June 16, 1996 10.38 P.M.
