Walking down these pebbled streets...

Some are cracked.
Some are well formed.
Some look as if they were put in yesterday.
Some as if they have been here for much longer.

Often we feel that our lives are somewhat disengaged from reality. We process our surroundings saying, yes this feels right, this belongs, this is how it should be. The familiar faces flashed by and I am able to feel that expectation of them.

Open your eyes. Now expectation turns to hope. The trees blanketing the campus from the watchful eyes above are there, the stones between my shoes are real. I can feel the smooth rounded tops, the crevices in between.

But these people here are not who I expected-hoped they would be. In my memories there is none of this searching. The only place where it fits is in this thing we understand as reality. Are you hiding those things I know to be true above your leaves in the sky?

Now there you go again
You say you want your freedom
Who am I to keep you down...down
It's only right that you should
Play it the way that you feel it
But listen carefully to the sound
Of your loneliness
Like a heartbeat, drives you mad
In the stillness of remembering
What you had, And what you lost
Ooooh, say what you had, you know what you lost

Thunder only happens when it's raining
Players only love you when they're playing
They say, women, they will come and they will go
When the rain washes you clean, you'll know
You will know

Here I go again, I see the crystal visions
I keep my visions to myself, yeah
It's only me who wants to wrap around your dreams and
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?
Dreams of Loneliness, like a heartbeat, drives you mad
In the stillness of remembering
What you had, And what you lost
Oooh, says what you had, you know what you lost

Thunder only happens when it's raining
Players only love you when they're playing
They say, women, they will come and they will go
When the rain washes you clean, you'll know

Oh thunder only happens when it's raining
Players only love you when they're playing
They say, women, they will come and they will go
When the rain washes you clean, you'll know
You'll know
You will know
Oh oh oh you'll know