Before The Dawn

See the man on the corner
standing
Raises his hand implores
for silence
He calls to the sun
He calls to the moon
He folds his mind into a
distant land

But the chaos continue
there around
The city streets
Like the paper that
burns it
Consumes all
The gray and the
desperation
Mingle into tears
But the world that is
passing cannot
Hear his call

So the words that he
speaks
Become the life
Held in his calloused
hands
And given to those who
would cry
To pull them away from
the cold and
The rain
Take them out of the
night
Into the day

Beat now
The hearts that are
still
And watch as the day
passes on
Beat now
The hearts that are
still
Before the dawn comes
Beat now
The hearts that are
still
Rise as the day passes
on
Beat now
Then I'll reveal
The place we belong

Watch as in slow motion
falling
The people return to
their innocence
A touch of the hand, a
sign in the eye
As the torrent falls for
a
Moment they disappear

And their bodies are
twisted
By the mould
Of their secret lives
Desires they would
always conceal
For a second the
numbness falls away
Pulse comes to their
eyes
Out of the night into
the day