Rheadiculous

Starless is the sky, a color blinded dream

Ageless was the world, now lifeless and empty

 

Simple is a rose, it falls beneath our eyes

Blown up into so, and leaving it to die

 

I don’t know why I journeyed into the future

What do I tell?

We just had a nuclear adventure in 2012

 

Gone is the technology worked on more than a thousand years

But at least now there is harmony and no more tears

 

Where have all the people gone, children laughing through the day

It echoes through the darkness

 

Why did I push the buttons of the time machine

Now I know its ending …. Life’s dream

     Going back and reading the things I wrote during puberty always gives me a good chuckle. I might have been 12 or 13 years old when I wrote this dark little number. I penned this and the music for it on the piano in my mothers home. She used to like listenting to me play and sing it. I don't think she was actually paying attention to most of the lyrics I wrote. I think Mom just liked listening to me perform anything. There were a few years in my younger life where I was very worried about a nuclear bomb going off and losing everyone I loved. This song is a product of that fear which was shared by a great many people in the early 80's. It is too bad that I can not remember the actual music I wrote to this.