Delta

Waking stream of consciousness
On a sleeping street of dreams
Thoughts like scattered leaves
Slowed in mid-fall into the stream

Of fast-running rivers of choice and chance
Time stops here on the delta
While they dance, while they dance

I love the child who steers this riverboat
But lately he's crazy for the day
And the river seems dreamlike in the daytime
And someone keeps thinking in my sleep

About fast-running rivers of choice and chance
And time stops here on the delta
While they dance, while they dance
While they dance, dance, river, dance
While they dance

Did you guess it? Did you guess it right? You guessed it. Now, I want

To tell you a short story. It's short, I promise it's a short story

Actually, the real truth of it is, I don't really need to tell it to

You, 'cause it's been all too public. You know this story. Give me

A pick, Leroy. Hey, gee, help! Help, mommy! Thank you. I eat 'em

Um, the story goes like this: you all know that I got loaded for a

Long time, wound up very badly strung out on hard drugs. Now, this
Is not a talk... this is not a preach-to-you-about-drugs thing
Because frankly, that's something else that you gotta figure out for
Yourself, you know? However, if you watch my life, you can figure it
Out in about two seconds. But it's up to you to figure it out. What
This is about is that... Now, I don't know if there really is anybody
-- Did you turn the... Okay, good. Um, I don't know if there really is
Anybody up there. I think there is, but if there is anybody up there
And if they put anybody here for any reason, they put me here to do
Songs. This is obvious. Because I don't know how to do anything else!

So, here's the story. Okay, the story is that for the last two or

Three years before I got popped and went to Huntsville, um, I...
I didn't write shit. Yeah, everybody knows that. And now I... For
Me, not writing anything, that's a chump change. Um, but what
Happened was, after I was in there for a while, about six months
I woke up. And, uh, I thought, actually, that I had crisped so many
Brain cells that I couldn't do it anymore. I couldn't write any
More tunes. But the truth was, I came to this song right here, and
This song is about what happened. And it's, it's, it's called "
Compass," and it's about finding your
Way. And I'm gonna sing it to you