Prodigals Alchemy
Sitting here and dreaming, dreaming of salvation,
And salvation comes in love, at least that's what they
say
I don't know if it was love or just imagination
But the siren of my dreams was made like me of clay
Now I look outside my window at the people covered
pavements
Shores to the river of the traffic running through
and the gray scale of sky says there's rain in my
future
and the only blue that I can see is what I feel for you
We say that we'll be friends when we know we never will
be
Once we were as one, now we lie alone
Alchemy once blended base metals into golden
Now what once was gold is transmuted into stone
Into lead and stone
Sitting here and dreaming, dreaming of a sunrise
The sunrise that takes over and the moon that fades
away
daylight when it happens obscures the dream of darkness
and the river shifts and shivers in the tawdry light of
day
I know I was a fool to take it all for granted
Never once imagioned that I'd feel the way I do
And I know the past is gone and I wish I could forget
it
but the begger never rides his horse,
my dreams are still of you
(chorus)
I am free to make my choices, I will choose my own
direction
I will walk along the pathway that others choose for me
I will make my own decisions with sufficient
introspection
Now I introspect away until there's nothing left to see
I can say that we'll be friends like it's really what I
wanted
Not to hold you in my arms, to lie once more with you
But as alchemists once tried to change base metals into
golden
It never worked for them back then,
why should it now come true?
(chorus)
