For William Matheny
The sunlight falling
The afternoon calling
Your face running
Through my mind
I still see you behind
My closed eyes at night
I still wonder where you are
Are you still living out your car?
Still playing for drunks in bars?
Still singing snatches of bars
And trying to tune that old guitar
Do you ever go back home?
Ever talk to your folks on the phone?
Ever go back and walk all alone
In the Michigan snows?
Had a dream about you
You were shining so bright
You were singing to me
In the pale moonlight
And I ain’t lonely but I am alone
Life should be better
You’d think I’d know better
Than sitting at home alone
And it ain’t a crime
And it against the law
But no matter where you are
Loving from afar
Ain’t no love at all
I still see you dancing
On the California sands
I still see us chancing
A stab at romancing
Before I realized I wouldn’t be your man