Lower Section of the White Pass out of Skagway / whitepass1268opt
(C) 2005 by Paul A. L. Hall
5/24/2005
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Here are the words of the song:
"White Pass 1268"
The stark blue
of the noontime sky
above the canyon high
will tell me things
that my eyes
are glad to know.
-- Things beyond my brain that I just can't explain
-- but yet I know,
yet I know.
The red rock speaks to me, too.
Tells me things beyond my brain.
Things I can't explain, and yet I know
-- and yet I know.
"Hand" points to "The Smiling Lizard"
that's looking in the red rocks
at the top,
lookin' to the left of the scene.
You know what I mean?
But what do I mean? That's the chilly bean of the screen.
But the blue -- stark blue -- of the noon time sky,
at White Pass, makes me glad,
and I don't know why.
Does it matter?
Perhaps.
In some other time
maybe I'll be glad
that this moment was a part of mine.
Trees struglin' on the bare top rock,
they also have their "talk".
A-tellin' me of a lot of things
that I do not know, but they show.
Yeah, they show.
I don't know -- but I do now
because I see a few things that I don't know,
but I do.
Yes, somehow, I do.
You see the red and you see the gray?
Batteries for another day
when the hot water flowed over them and plated the quartz with some gold.
Mother lode.
Hey, that was the tale that got the miner's ear.
Umm-hmm...
Heroes?
What's so heroic about kicking
a dying horse over the ledge?
What's so heroic about eating
your fellow man when you run out of food
in "Tormented Valley"?
Well, the heroic thing was,
when they found out
that most of the gold was taken out,
and they learned about
what they did not know.
They sat there, so sad,
like the Scottish General
who watched the spider jump.
On the third try, he made it.
And the General went on
to win the war that had him stumped.
Ah, yeah, guys.
And the pine trees,
they'll talk to you although you do not know.
Ah, but your eyes will make you glad
that this moment
was also yours.
Now my story's wend' it's way,
the tale has thus been told.
It is not the tale of the words I find,
but now my time
is growing old.'
Copyright (c) 2005 by
Paul A. L. Hall. All rights reserved.
