The Veil of Time

- In the mid eighties, my world started opening up, bits at a time.  I met a remarkable young lady that taught me many things, shared much of her different life with me. She was a "witch" (the good kind - pagan),  and a fairy (fae - or a "spirit of light"), and so in loving her I discovered pieces of ritual, perspectives, concepts that I hadn't experienced before.  She was the first person (and still one of the deepest) that I felt a connection far beyond that which could be explained, memories of things that we hadn't done, yet certainly had - just not in this life, this world, this "dream".  She got me thinking about lots of things, and sometime during our on-again, off-again love, I wrote this song. October of 85.  This is one that I should record someday.

The Veil of Time

Ah confusion, complex illusion,
The minds eye, can pierce the veil of time,
see through, the years of solitude,
Somehow I could see, that someday we would be.

I sit here in a trance, and dream of random chance,
I remember tomorrow, but can't place yesterday,
If only you knew, what we'd look like when we're through,
Nothings new about today - it's all an instant replay...

[Chorus]
Ah, ah, pierce the veil of time,
Walk through the eons, but stay her by my side.
We could change the future, or at least we can try
Ah, ah, pierce the veil of time...

I met a girl, thought she was the world,
It'll be some time next year, before she's finally here,
I treat her well, she says to go to hell,
I won't ignore her voice, I just haven't got that choice

The past is gone, the future carries on,
Don't let the cost, justify the loss,
Know thy self, that's your only real wealth,
Live your truth, don't forget about your youth

[Chorus]

(C) 2011 Dave Cox

So this is love

- A joyful, simple song from a long time ago - probably the late 80s, one of the relatively rare times that I took the moment to record my happiness, even as it was tinted with bits of insecurity.

So This Is Love

She's my sunny day, on a stormy night,
She's what makes me smile, when I'm down,
She's the stary sky, from a lonely house,
I pray that "we" will always be around.

She's the only flower, in a grassy glade,
She's the girl walking off to school,
She's the friend, I love so much,
She will always be me truest jewel

So this is love, the priceless gift,
And true, the greatest prize,
To win the heart, of the one you love,
and be beautiful in there eyes.

(C) 2011 Dave Cox

Wandering

- Digging through my poetry, I'm reminded of a theme in my life and common in creativity, that it is the extremes of emotion that drive one most to create, to write, to compose.  When I'm happy, I spend my time doing that which makes me happy.  When I'm sad, I didn't feel like I had anything else to do but to try to write, to create, to extract this pain from me, and push it out onto paper, to the world.  In reviewing them, I see that so many of the songs I wrote (most of which I didn't post) are of a familiar theme, that really there isn't much new there to offer.  So now, I'm looking for the stuff that is more unique, that has a voice of its own, a message, a memory that I feel is more universal.  Below, an unnamed poem (which I've called "wandering") from August of 1989.


I've been wandering so long, searching in the night
waiting for a lover, but its somehow never right.
I'm looking for a friendship that will never let me down,
but I've got this feeling it's no where to be found.

So I look within me, to find what's down inside,
For a shining bit of wisdom, a pearl of some great price,
I hope to find an answer to a question I don't know,
I need direction, need some place to go...

Oh lord, grant me guidance, let me know that you're still there,
could you send a sweet reminder, an answer to a prayer?
Would you kindly give me courage, grant me hope to carry on,
I don't need to sound discouraged, just need some help along...

Could someone please help me along...

(C) 2011 Dave Cox