Rubber Rings

Green skies rain drenching heat

Surrounded by castles on a marble street

The chessboard pattern changes and shifts

A knight in the distance listens to this

I’m not sighing, nor am I a sire

I’m here to teach and learn and maybe eat fire

At a circus with a million-dollar hairpiece

Juggling pennies, listening to the sound feast

Rubber Rings on my fingers, so I

Bounce on my knuckles, give it a try

Rubber Rings on my fingers, so I

Bounce on my knuckles, give it a try

Scissor kick and balance

Just to earn a few chuckles

Eat the attention and drink the laughter

Till I’m back on the marble street

And the knight’s moving faster

He pulls up close to tell of a lost love, disaster

“That girl,” he said. “Let me tell you, you’ll see.”

The reason that I’m lonely on this shabby marble street

“A wicked wonder, she twists up my mind

She opened my eyes, and sent me through time

Showed me magic, showed me what’s real

Ripped off the bars on the windows I feel.”

I dunk my head in molasses just to muddy my thoughts

They’re too still to keep going, too clear to get lost

Music is the savior of my fears from the past

So when I fall from my soapbox, I land like a cat

I wake up dizzy and I want more sleep

Take me back to the dream world where I can feel

When your eyes are opened, a door is closed 

To the life you want, but you can’t afford

The dreams are exciting and you miss the thrill

But the people who visit are a lonely pill

Which takes effect when your eyelids crack

You wish only to find them and take them back

But you know they’re on a life all their own

Each with a pill to stay happy and warm

I miss the touch, I miss the soft-hearted smiles

So I pile my loneliness on a funeral pyre

Some I may see, and some I may never

But I wish I could keep us all together forever

Rubber Rings on my fingers, so I

Bounce on my knuckles, give it a try