Pepper Trail - For My Next Life lyrics

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Pepper Trail - For My Next Life lyrics

I understand that advance reservations / special preferences Are not accepted / and, really, should not be But a word in your ear couldn't hurt / could it? And so, I just wanted to say that in the next life / if there is such a thing I wish to be a bird or equally enthralling / unimaginable Musical The bird not a surprise, I'm sure / to one who knows me, as you do After all, I have been a student and lover / obsessive, my wife would say Of birds from earliest childhood / first memory a bill-snapping owl baby But my knowledge only serves to teach me / or is this veering toward the pathetic? How little I can imagine the freedom of mind that must be granted by / mustn't it? Flight But the musical wish may catch you off guard / or may not, I don't mean. . . This wish arising at my daughter's piano recital / not an occasion of high art As the youngest students, knobby-kneed / graceless and beloved Coltish feet in untied sneakers pumping the pedals / not a genius among them Make with their eyes closed music / somehow; how? Beautiful I can no more make music, no more know how to begin / hammering fingers, shining eyes Than I could leap from a windy cliff and / in soaring, faultless harmony Fly, a weightless, airborne man / the jagged rocks below And it is the hopelessness of these wishes / shared only with you That makes them what they are / thank you Dreams