And You Drew Back Your Hand

Gazing into the mirror of what happened in your past

Those painful impressions tend to last

Love and loss those bittersweet contrasts

Wondering why you are now an outcast,

Might as well gaze out into a universe and wonder

At each mistake and timely blunder

Oh the unspoken sound of thunder

The spell of the woman you are under,

The wizard must have cast a magic spell

So you could carve out your own personal hell

What an adventure oh do tell

The valley where Goliath fell,

A world that has become scatter brained

Ignoring meaning and ignoring the pain

Inventing a playground for the insane

This is the legacy of the human stain,

I wanted to fly away with you

On the crosscurrents of a sky so blue

Leaving contrails so high for all to view

But reality has a habit of going askew,

There’s a rainbow of fire tonight

Mysteriously burning so ever bright

But without arms to hold me tight

The spectacle might as well be out of sight,

And just as you thought all was going as you planned

A conspiracy flourished upon the land

The land of milk and honey became desert sand

The creature snapped and you drew back your hand.