Pilgrim

Pilgrim

i am trying to break through
but i am just getting nowhere
i purchased a gift
which i sold back to a tenant
living in my house
who wouldn’t let me break through
i guessed quite correctly
that it wasn’t going to rain
so i laid back and cast shadows
i wasn’t going to make it today, again
i was trying to catch it all
whilst i laid back on the settee
and i mused about everybody
i crossed long gone rivers,
with my gift ready to deliver
but i was too late,
i caught a plane in a plane
and decided reality could wait
i’m trying to break my way through
i am trying to get,
to some promised land
but this is a pilgrimage of one
no one to hold this boy’s hand
yes, i am still young
yes, i am still scared
yes, i still wide eyed
my youth and innocence still there
inside,
and yes, i am glad
that you still there, whoever you may be


James Garratt – July 1995