From the recording Sarcastic Cafe
Lyrics
Stained Glass Museum (revised )
While I was sitting in a stained glass museum
Looking at a picture of Queen Nefertiti
As I sat staring in a stained glass museum
I saw you as well as you seeing me
As I lay sleeping by a velvet Madonna
Looking at the chalice captured in her folded hands
I blinked my eyes I realized
That canvas isn’t real life but dreams
I turn around the sound keeps growing
The ancient one is calling me
Eternity is calling out to me
As I was drifting on a cloud behind a tear drop
The color yellow sank to blue beneath the sea
While I was singing with a lutist in a meadow
I saw you as well as you seeing me
I can’t avoid you so I look out through the window
Standing on a bench I try to see beyond the pane
Thunder blares I cannot hear you
Lights go out I can’t be near you to see
I turn around the sound keeps growing
The ancient one is calling me
Eternity is calling out to me
While I was dancing with the daughters of Corelli
Waltzing in a garden filled with vines and ivory
As I was skipping with the daughters of Corelli
I saw you as well as you seeing me
While I was visiting a gambling man from Memphis
Floating down the ragged river Mississippi
I hopped ashore I must be going
This life’s too short and knowing’s being free
I turn around the sound keeps growing
The ancient one is calling me
Eternity is calling out to me
© 2003 Charles Ellsworth Smith