White Owl

Silent you ride

Passenger side

But you’re not really there

In my head

You speak to me

When my dreams become nightmares

Verse 1

You’re here to teach me something

I have so much to learn

Your eyes refuse to let me

deny the things I yearn

There’s danger in your silent call

I have no choice but to follow

I can no longer hold my tongue

Choking on words I can’t swallow

Chorus

White Owl

You’re following me again

Can’t tell where this insanity ends

Is there

a reason you take flight

In my soul at the dead of night

Verse 2

The beat of wings is offering me

A choice between life and death

Do I give into the wanting

that is cutting off my breath

Between Niagara and Sahara

I have laid my body down

I’ve always dried up in the sand

But you’re making me drown.

Bridge

I will wait to dream again

For your quiet storm

To rain upon me

Somehow my will is in the hands

of a fantasy

Verse 3

The lesson was simple

And although my heart’s been torn

Pain is only knowledge being born

I watch you ride on your wing

Into the night again

In what could have been an enemy

I have found the strangest friend

Repeat chorus

Silent you ride

Passenger side

But you’re not really there.

© Ethereal 2004