SPEAK EASY LADY

Speak Easy Lady
Don't lay there under my skin
Playing your harp
Don't leave me feeling so thin
Dying to hear what must not begin
I'm asking for something from you
I haven't seen since I came through
The fog and the rain
Of my Oregon days

Speak Easy Lady
Don't glance across this bay
Forgetting
Don't tell me there's only one way
Of praying
Grab my hand as we fly
Across this stage of aging
Every moment we reach for a breath
Is a moment God accepts
There are two of us in this play
I'm hungry for your touch
Every moment of every day

Speak Easy Lady
Take this bottle of wine
Nights get so cold
Out on the edge of town
Come lay your song down
Here on this pillow
Ride your sweet music
Into my soul

Speak Easy Lady
Braid your hair into mine
Let our hopes grow together
As we bundle our lives
As we step out across
This covenant of time

I'm thirsting for you this morning
Hungry to taste you last night
Don't expect me to explain this
I've got no equation
No blackboard exists
That clearly defines
This longing for
Such intimate wine

Come, Speak Easy Lady
However you play
Don't leave my heart aching
Like a river of love
Flooding its banks
While you're floating above

Don't let this music I hear
Drift so far from my ear
Speak Easy Lady
I'm looking to you
For guidance to ford
This river of yours

Come with your paddles
Come with your tears
Bring your faith to these waters
That flow forth from our years

Speak Easy Lady
In a passionate heat
As our mouths open wide
Let our hearts be a tent
Let our hands be God's hands
As we sculpt out each other
In a joyful exchange
Of hot spices and sweet nectars
Speak Easy Lady
Come bathe in our fate

Come into the wilderness
Dance with the dark
The child of tomorrow
Hides out in these bushes
Come with your candle
Let it guild us to the river
Where Destiny awaits
Our intimate spark

Speak Easy Lady
So close to
Destiny's Heart

Come
Let your song be our pillow
As we explore in the dark

Gary Lange: copyright Feb 1999