I did a stint as a security guard and one rain soaked day I had to approach and run off a dumpster diver. He had only one shoe and was soaked to the bone. I left him alone but did ask that he not make a mess. The look of hopelessness and humiliation on his face was the spark for this song. Recorded with an Apex 420 condenser mic and martin guitar on to a roland br1600 digital recorder.
lyrics:
They say that the eyes are the window to the soul
They say that the ears can perceive the music of life
So what can the two of us say when we meet in the dark?

I know of a woman who cries in her dreams every night
I know of a man who thinks that life is a joke
I know that a wave on the ocean is never alone

I played a game of chance in the spring and I lost
So I moved far away and prayed for relief from the cost
But I never fathomed the price of a bridge never crossed

I saw you today on the streets in the gray and the rain
In clothes that were soaked and stained with our dreams come undone
And I wondered at circumstance guiding the choices we made

Your eyes touched my face and my heart leaped for the sky
But the look that you gave me, showed me there’s rich and there’s poor
And I bled on that sidewalk, then, numb and smiling at you

I took my cue from the tears that softened your eyes
And the humour that held us, the tensions we could not disguise
So I turned away then, I made my choice, no more lies

Sorrow is crouched in doorways darkened from view
With eyes that are burning with the friction of dreams passing through
Meshed in a dissonance, beautiful, fragile and blue
© Kent Roger Ellaschuk, 2007