From the recording Armageddon and other love songs.
Lyrics
If we could go back in time what would be your calling?
Perhaps a painter, whose thoughts bend and weave,
A well-respected writer, or some crazy Spanish dancer,
Like a childhood memory it’s all make-believe,
If we could see into the future, what would be your question?
Like when you’ll say hello and when you’ll say goodbye,
We can travel with our minds, it’s the heart of human pleasure,
So, let’s move on to the future, you and I,
I’d like to love you but I’m Shattered Inside,
A mess of dirty fragments that I just can’t deny,
There’s something wicked it’s obscured by a flame,
I’d really like to know you and I’m glad that you came,
Glad that you came,
If we sat down for a meal what would be your pleasure?
Some continental fare with a glass of fine wine?
Or perhaps a foreign film, where the leading man’s the villain,
With a convoluted ending that messes with our minds,
When you rose into the sky I was down here crawling,
Through the muck and scattered refuse of my dreams,
There’s soft comfort in your mind, upon your sleeve your heart’s enshrined,
While I was challenging the good book and living to extremes,
I’d like to tell you but we don’t have the time,
It would take up fifty volumes a hundred cases of wine,
An added problem there’s no place to begin,
It’s locked up really solid don’t know how to get in,
No way to get in,
Yeah, I certainly love romance, and dreaming on a star,
And fuzzy kittens and positive things,
Yeah, there’s time to say hello, and time to say Au revoir,
There’s times that we are paupers, there’s times where queens and kings,
I’d really like to know you but I’m Shattered inside…