PALACE GUARD
Rick Nelson 


With handmade silver sparkles  
Like a well-dressed sequined whore 
Your lady-like deceptions  
Keep reaching out for more 

And you ask me for nothing  
And nothing’s not enough 
And the fisherman he puts a claim on you 
But it’s nothing but a bluff 

So with jealous hands tied round my back 
I stumble cross the floor 
Not knowing how to speak  
I keep reaching for the door 

I know you know me well I say 
Cause I’m the palace guard 
Remember me, we made love today 
At the King’s bazaar 

And you look at me with eyes that never see 
I can feel something start to die inside of me  
And you speak in wordless freedoms never seen 
Now I realize to you it’s all a dream 

So before you show me everything 
There’s something I must know 
I’ve worked with your friend John the Geek 
And his sidewalk trav’lin’ show 

I know your childhood tailored dreams are very well disguised 
So you don’t have to fake it anymore it’s all been memorized 
  
And you speak in wordless freedoms never seen 
Now I realize to you it’s all a dream 

And you speak to me with feelings 
As real as sealing wax 
As the nearness dawns the moth is gone 
Leaving trailless tracks 

All you village people 
Sing your songs of the morning sunlit sky  
Don’t you think it’s time we moved along 
Said the raven to the fly