No Secret Castle
© Andrew Calhoun, recorded on Different Now.
Once we were so happy, once we were so young,
Life just gets bigger and bigger, I feel I've got no tongue.
There's no hardship I won't bear, no tear I will not cry,
There's no box I would not open—no place I would not fly
There's a sailor on the ocean, who has stolen all the songs,
The ones I used to write you, delirious and long;
But there's no secret castle, and I have no magic key,
There is nothing I can give you, without you loving me.
Every time I feel the spirit moving in my heart,
I will bend myself to hear it, I will leave you in the dark;
I'll forget about the morning, I'll forget to make the bed,
In the evening there's a warning, and an oven full of bread.
I've been searching for the fountain, while drinking at the dregs,
I've been hiding on the mountain, where the eagle lays her eggs;
And it's like I am struck dumb, and you are deaf and blind,
There's nothing I can give you that I have not been to find.