This Is The Motion Picture Soundtrack of Our Lives

where is our gloaming sky

where is our rising tide

the one that washes happy heroes

to a sandy shore, alive?

where is the swell of strings

the vibrant song on wings

the same that lifts embracing lovers

and all the life it brings?

are we really only seen

as lost and sadly ever been

left jilted at the glittering alter

of all those silver screens?

don't you want a single chance

to make our simple, country dance

something worthy of shining greatness

that leaves all 'goers in a trance?

to be the lyrics of the songs

that all the world would sing along

and assuage this intrepid life of ours

and ease its painful, ugly wrongs?

let's take the carpet for just a day

and spin like stars in our own way

and pretend we belong in a brilliant fiction

to keep our truths at distant bay

and then come down from that white stage

the simple lovers of our simple age

a leading man and leading woman

whose song once sung was all the rage