Springtime Dreamin'

From the Lifesmith Group album, "Commentary."

Millions of people everyday revel in their dreams
Of graceful nights and champagne flights alive on silken beams
Past green field houses thru streams of pure freshness and back cause the fire is nice
We wander toward wonder on the fins of another and return to our bowl of white rice.

We climb aboard the working ship which sails out every morn
To seek the light that brings us bread; it's the life that gives us form
We drudge and dream and then dry clean the sweating off our backs
And the salt on the shoulder of the rented householder pays for the labors in tax.

We grope and gray and then decay--we're lovers in the dust
We scratch the surface of holy houses for security and trust
We plead at night to the powers that be to free us from our needs
But work is the weather for workers forever--sweat from our hearts really bleeds.

Millions of people everyday shudder in their shoes
Seeing off the living truths the whites the blacks the blues
Everyone else is digging in for the holy war to come
Yet some of us still scream and swear, "Why are we so dumb?"

And as we dream in our time of rest--we know our time is near
We know the lame dog has his day, his mind and purpose clear
When he and I and us may roam in search of the highest peak
The meaning of happiness, the depth of love, is merely all we seek.