Mishmash Battle Cry

After I left you tonight

I went back

To each place we were before

Retraced our steps

Where I held the door

Where you laughed at a joke

Where we both almost tripped

Where I gave you my coat 

And where we both just sat and cried 

I drove back past the mansion

But stopped in the cemetery

And thought the same thoughts

I had thought on my second time through it all

Here I could have said it

Or there started the talk

The words I'd like to think

Are burning a hole in my tongue

Except that's not really true

In fact if we were to talk now

I'm still not sure what I'd say

Or if I'm afraid of what you'd do

Or if I would even really mean

Half the things out of my mouth

If I would just lie to you

And in the end lie to myself

I said I'd see this through and I will

As far as I can go

A distant wall of fog clouds my mind

And the future goes only till so

So sail onward we shall on this voyage 

And hope daybreak and landfall is near

Hope no shoals or storms or hidden things

Hide in that mists just waiting

Hope in hope and that's just dandy

But a sailor needs more than a sentiment

So "Onward and inward!" become my battle cry

Let loose the colors and sound the drums

Onward and inward to the worlds end

Lets hope it's a circle with a gentle bend