Xenogears

The Staircase Of Light

Xenogears


A parade crosses the dead center of my heart 
You come, clicking your heels 
A melody, just learned, to an empty plaza 
Lighting a rose-colored lamp and moving on 

Lively dreams soon slip through your two hands 
And confetti dances up in a tiny wind 

Rather than tears of farewel,l try carefully placing 
The excitement of meeting inside your heart 

The syncopation you left behind in your shoeprints 
Continues on beyond the morning mist 
In a town somewhere, in someone's dreams 
It's gone to light a warm lamp 

Rather than the sadness of farewells, the joy of meeting 
Piles up bit by bit, facing the light 

A staircase rises in spirals to the sky 
And, piercing the red rainclouds, becomes a rainbow 

No matter where you are, though you may be in a distant 
and 
If you listen hard, you can hear it--that song