Charles Ellsworth and Mary Adams Smith

Lyrics

BALLAD TO JAKE

You can build your temple walls to madness
Let your love song lie upon the wind
You can cluster in the shelter of your building
And wonder if you ever can win

You can lie around in the darkness
And wander down the portals of your mind
You can come home drunk at midnight
And wonder 'bout the color of her eyes
But then the times start going past you-2 times in round

You can walk and quietly become a moonbeam
You can talk and build a castle out of words
You can magically become the morning breaking
And tell her through the sounds that you heard

You know you are a very special person
A little bit like everybody else
But in all this crazy confusion
You're only very special to yourself

But then the times start going past you-2 times in round

Raindrops in the middle of December
As you lie alone behind your door
You contemplate the years returning
And wishing they would turn to so much more

You look and see the way the whole things going
People hiding out behind their minds'
Everybody's busy doing nothing
There really doesn't seem to be a side

But then the times start going past you- 6 times out

You can sing a song and see the way it's going
You can get to something firm within your mind
But action baby still does the talking
But talking is the action of the tine

© 1968 Charles Ellsworth Smith