Ricky Nelson - Palace Guard lyrics

rate me

(Rick Nelson)

With handmade silver sparkles

Like a well-dressed sequined whore

Your lady-like deceptions

Keep reaching out for more.

And you ask me for nothing

And nothing’s not enough

And the fisherman he puts a claim on you

But it’s nothing but a bluff.

So with jealous hands tied round my back

I stumble cross the floor

Not knowing how to speak

I keep reaching for the door.

I know you know me well I say

'Cause I’m the palace guard

Remember me, we made love today

At the King’s bazaar.

And you look at me with eyes that never see

I can feel something start to die inside of me

And you speak in wordless freedoms never seen

Now I realize to you it’s all a dream.

So before you show me everything

There’s something I must know

I’ve worked with your friend John the Geek

And his sidewalk trav’lin’ show.

I know your childhood

Tailored dreams are very well disguised

So you don’t have to fake it anymore

It’s all been memorized.

And you speak in wordless freedoms never seen

Now I realize to you it’s all a dream.

And you speak to me with feelings

As real as sealing wax

As the nearness dawns the moth is gone

Leaving trailless tracks.

All you village people

Sing your songs of the morning sunlit sky

Don’t you think it’s time we moved along

Said the raven to the fly...