All Is Well

from The New Beat Dandies by Syd R Duke

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lyrics

it's dangerous to watch too close
you look like you've just seen a ghost
the spectre of your wasted time
the brutal phantom of your crime

and i wouldn't stand so near
i guess i should make it clear

take the noise of empty rage
that tankard tracked out common cage
and if you stand it in the sun
there's quite enough for everyone

so get what you can give
and choose the game you live
for if you ride on by
a wicked glint in your eye
with savage vacant yell
to those who mumble "all is well"
then you will stop short of your goal
for only time can grow so old

come gather round from near and far
come sit with me beneath the stars
map out the path you rode to be
a figure in eternity

a monument so plain
to all who toil in vain
to those beneath the sun
who curse the day that's done
a mute fluorescent claim
of consequence's pain
of elegance begun
of matted daylight slums
of sinking cowboy noise
of all the girls and boys
who wrangled in despair
beneath the moon's bright stare
of enmity dismissed
of this unbroken list
of randomly restrained
masonic urges tamed
of all these things and more
set up in our lives' store
and if we breathe our last
let all men know we danced