Sunday, February 10, 2008

Elegy For Kirkwood...



Sweet madness it must be wrong
What kind of fool imagines love
With all this going on
Stars burning in the empty sky
And the city is aflame
With a million lights

And they come and they go
In the blink of an eye
People are like suns
And they're burning up inside
People are like suns

Science will enable us to hear
To be crystal clear
To make diamonds in the shifting sand
Better take all the love that you got in a single hand

And they come and they go
In the fullness of time
People are like suns
They are burning up inside
People are like suns

Breathing into life
All that's good in us
To saints become
It can't be helped
Doesn't stop me from thinking aloud
I could have done something

And they come and they go
Yeah they come and they go
People are like suns
People are like suns

And we'll go out tonight
Set the town alight
All fade into white

"People Are Like Suns" by Neil Finn © 2007 - Chrysalis Publishing Ltd. from "Time On Earth" by Crowded House

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

i can't imagine what this has done to that town. how would you ever feel safe again. it is going to take courage for them to not turn their town into an armed camp now. i fear that soon we are all going to be faced with the question of what it means to "live free" and what we are willing to risk to maintain our way of life.