One time I looked and the blood had dried
The soil turned and the flowers had wilted
One time I guess in a mind's glaze it wilted
One time I awoke in an empty morning
To a radio alarm and the morning news
And the announcer told of a fallen dream
One time when the blank wall reared before me
Someone else had pained and died and I was
No more scathed than a morning sunray
One time comes like a silent thunder
A burst of nothing, a flash of invisible light
Tomorrow never apologizing for yesterday
One time a cold lonely morning wind
Slid around me as I borrowed its chill
And wondered having no where to start to think
An ambulance screams for its patients
Crying across a desert trail
And time leaves one less mind alone
He was she was they were
I am now with mornings coming
Crescent moon and silvery evenings
One time - One time - One time
One time and a myriad maybe's
One time and I walk a different way
One time you go through a tunnel
That ends up where you started …
Only now the tunnel is gone
One time I went to an empty barrel
And reached in for a new day
And I cried … that time.
