Run Away And Hide In Clear Sight

Corridors and dungeons haunted our childish-ways And rainbows and tears congealed into living flames Oh, and we'd run and play with no one else to blame And with arms outstretched, we'd fly like lunar aeroplanes Oh, and do you remember hiding in clear sight Counting backwards, guessing I'd just run away And you could stay where we wouldn't have long left to play. Attic rooms and musty cold, Victorian schools Oh, do you remember your disgrace if you happened to laugh Enjoy a moment when you weren't allowed to speak Oh, and do you remember all your silly discourse When you were happy as a dancing dragonfly With clean linen off the clothesline Exasperating parents, shouting stop-screeching, go to bed. Leaden clocks like a hummingbird ticking in the shadows, In the corner with shovel-pointed fingertips, Whispering close your eyes one day you must die But today, be an aeroplane and learn to fly. But today, run away and hide in clear sight Because life is a blessing and a rainbow Tears can congeal into living flames tomorrow.