China Sea

(For you I wrote this song
It took me all night long
Hope you won’t think it wrong
For me so forward be)

So what’s this all about
Oh I don’t need to shout
It’s just -- you’re pure lights out
As even blind eyes can see ]

You got me so enthralled
I’m walkin’ into walls
You’re like Niagara Falls
For  newlyweds to be?

So please come  wreck my train
Please drive me half insane
I sure will not complain
If there’s a you and me

‘Cos when you’re on mind
It’s like, there’s no stop signs
It‘s just like flying blind
Over vast China sea

In ancient Martin plane
Four giant engines main
Through storm clouds, winds and rain
Could be the end of me

It was like days of yore
Heard those round engines roar
How high my spirits soared
When you were close to me

Somehow how the fates conspired
You were my funeral pyre
Seven mile long high wire
And no net to catch me

Cos your sweet southern drawl
Could pierce a concrete wall
It had me so enthralled
Like nectar to a bee

You didn’t have to shout
Or wildly dance about
Cos you were pure lights out
As far as eyes could see

And I knew that safe and slow
Was not your way to go
Big charges set to blow
You to next century

Were you sweet reverie
Or final destiny
Or maybe never-be
I just don’t know

Cos that’s all in the past
Too soon we’ll be mere dust
It aint real  fair or just
Just some crazy rodeo.

I dream you’re up on stage
And quite the current rage
It’s the Victorian Age
Your petticoat I can see

You’re one heck of a muse
You make my screws come loose
I’m giddy as a goose
And pining like a tree

My sox roll up and down
Whenever you’re around
You’re like duck eider down
For a man about to freeze

I try hard as I can
I got a million plans
Grains of Sahara sands
To get you addicted to me

I wonder years from now
If you’ll recall this show
Oh - did stage lights just blow?
Well, I did hit upper C…

This was my very best shot
I gave it all I got
You love me now? -- or what?
Sure hope that it might be

REFRAIN

So in all our lifetimes
How we do wish for sunshine
But if you’re a tornado
Then, with smile I’ll go

And when your storm clears
You’ll see me way up there
A rainbow will follow
Where ever I will go.