mike rucker

Cold and blackened midnight 
As a wood fire casts its glow 
Silence in the darkness 
It's a darkness few will know 
A young man sits beside it 
Seeking warmth to ease the chill 
Staring at the flame that dances 
With…

slave in his chains in his prison  
in a dark and lonely cell  
of his hope he knows too little  
in the fear he knows too well  
world is spinning somewhere  
out there out of time and out of place  …

Lend a longing ear and hear me whisper  
I'll speak to your heartache's deepest scar 
Put the silver cuffs on ever loosely 
Leave this metal door slightly ajar 
There where we were talking hidden secrets 
Just a clever line or…

i sat down upon a park bench 
waiting for an open door 
early morning sun arising 
wanting courage i could pour 
she came by most unexpected 
heading out to start her day 
she sat down in quiet thinking 
til she…

there's a picture that she's painting 
there's another on the wall 
and too many that are hanging 
softly sitting on each hall 
and they're crying for attention 
sometimes no one cares to look 
but i've got some oh so closely …

my phone rang in the night time 
all the darkness closing in 
where the conversation ended 
if it ever did begin
and i saw her distant gazes 
and with words she grasped for more 
and i hugged her from a…

hamster in the cage that's sitting 
right next door to mine 
chewed right through the metal wheel 
and stretched it to a line 
flipped the spring lock on the door 
one glance back at where he'd been 
looked one way…

she is young and she is lonesome 
i am old and so am i 
we had shared a common lover 
each of us could not deny 
all the hours in isolation 
touching one we did not know 
but somehow we…

i strum a few old broken chords try to wake them from the dead 
wrestle words i've never written now from the things i've always said 
and i look up to the heavens and i stare down at my feet …

she was never much a cooker yet she watched them from afar 
all the scents and spices rendered she could pull out from each jar 
i could not tell day from night time when she put it on my plate …