Through the elephant's eyes

A split second of danger

And emerging from the rubble

A kind-hearted stranger crook with stubble

And button where he button hooked

That day when the earth rumbled and shook

Played football in the front yard where

We thought were never scarred there.

The play we payed and par we wore.

In wars and gulfs, Turkish delights and Thor,

Our days turned to flashing lights

And bright nights on empty streets

Where kind companions and companies meet

The Rivera, the Montinegro, a compradre in

A Murcielago

Awakened beasts of burden back end

And woke to wars of players offend.
I awoke from sleep and dreams I kept;

turned off my mind, from signs I left

And upended the stupendous rhymes I graft

And sold the display, forgetting the rest.

I loftily abided a jokers smile

And stack a pack of cash once in a while

And wear a Louis Vuitton sweater

And stroke the cat where we know better.

I’m a falling, lifting feather

Snowy cold and colder weather.
Torque and grow the engines prowess

growls to where the beast howls less.

The mold I broke, the stone I threw

Memories lost and fears that grew

And feats that taught me to forget

And recollections that I couldn’t let.

But all above my furious toil

I sweat blood and blood of oil

Where in swede seats we play and pray

And find our self in a better day.
What I didn’t think could have not gone wrong

And sung my life to millions in song

Atoms and molecules, solo people

I rip the torrent from all equals.
I cut the ribbon and shook the box

And found within it a thousand locks

A thousand promises and a hundred missing

From our mouths where we were kissing.
I took from man his finest promise

That life is a good and life is honest

And barraged in fate our mystical enterprise

To find no more questions nor any surprise.

I climbed a rainbow and rode the wind

Where man can never see within

A mind in toil and a fear uprise

To levy great with warped surprise.

So tell me sweetheart, where to from now?
You shiny car, you proudest bow

You glimmering stage, your Stow-boy pet

You’re finding me where I forget

That never did I ever promise

To you I’d love, to you I’d be honest

But you’re my best friend and to no surprise

We’re looking through the Elephant's eyes.