Summer Night

Summer Night

Oh summer night
Walk me home
Dodge'em shuttle-cocks
Keep to the shadows
Under the tamarind
And behind the dark side 

Of the lamppost hide me 

In the cool, tonight
Weary, the kids are 
Blurry 'n badminton bright
To my senseless eyes
With a day's hunger
And a weekly payload
Dead 'n alive 'n old

I, a victor today
Sapped of all joy, why?
My yesterdays disguise
As my tomorrows, why?
Answers await in bed
After this last mile, I
Walk on home, tonight

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© Parched For Rain

Other Late Night Escapades @ Parched For Rain:

Kerb || A Walk On A Still Night || Tonight || The Night Sheep's Wool

Roadsong Lullaby

Roadsong Lullaby

I ...

A love child of the engine drone
And a dull groan
Of the one-eyed trombone
That says move on

I'm one of the road
One of the old
Tales forgotten cold
Oh hold

Clutch me to your chest
That tender nest
Love, lust, do what ever I must

Time turns to dust

Oh I ...
Am one of the road
One ...
Of the one road

I'm one
Moving as the road
I ...
Am one of the road ...

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© Parched For Rain

Verses From The Road @ Parched For Rain

At Crossroads || After The Prophet || Escape || The Eternal Wanderer - Homecoming || Little Stream Of Jibhi || Paths Of Men

Paths Of Men

The Paths Of Men

The paths of men are seldom lonely
Like a river seldom still
There's always someone
Who has lost his way
Chosen to guide the rest
So that one may learn from him

And he may as well learn
To set right his wrongs

And then there are those
Monuments and milestones
Whose torches show their frowns
But nothing of the paths
These are the dead people
The paths justly bury them
Slowly, only to be trampled
For the paths of men are seldom lonely

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© Parched For Rain

Verses From The Road @ Parched For Rain

At Crossroads || After The Prophet || Escape || The Eternal Wanderer - Homecoming || Little Stream Of Jibhi || Roadsong Lullaby 

Escape

Escape

When I’m down
I dream of a thousand faces
That look back from the road
I have to pass as I search
For those beautiful races
That live alone, tucked up
Next to the mountains 

And the seas and the skies
In a hundred lonely places
One of which I yearn
To call my home

At least for once
I know nothing there
Shall ever weaken me 

Nothing shall remind me
Of you

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© Parched For Rain

Verses From The Road @ Parched For Rain

At Crossroads || After The Prophet || The Eternal Wanderer - Homecoming || Little Stream Of Jibhi || Paths Of Men || Roadsong Lullaby