IN THE TIME OF MY RUNNING

In the time of my running
I didn't think twice
I turned up my collar
And turned down advice
The threads and the vines
Had begun to unravel
The girl on the line said
"How light could you travel?"
Standing on station heads
Pleading insanity
Living on valium
Voice mail and vanity

In the time of my running
I was clutching at straws
I was missing connections
Sleeping on floors
See, I looked out one day
And the horizon was blue
Then it changed overnight
As horizons will do
So first I was here
Then I was gone
It made plenty of sense
In the head I had on
In the time of my running

Hanging between the notes
Peeking outside the box
Hunched in overcoats
Frost heave to equinox
Running away

In the time of my running
I kept them amused
I could not do bereft
So I did tall and confused
See people of people have time for that stuff
If you drench it win wine and repeat it enough
And I thought
I could handle my way round the cracks
If I read lots of Blake
And wore lots of black
In the time of my running

In the time of my running
I found her on God's earth
She gave me a white rose
I gave her a wide berth
I pulled an old single
From down off the shelf
I played it for her
But I danced by myself
Then I walked her home with the night on my breath
If I think was worth doing I did it to death
In the time of my running