Picture books they never explained The answers to those puzzling games I call lifelong dreams bashed by tragedies in a daze I find the pictures in my mind I'm intoxicated by the heat of the times Head's on straight My head's in place Why's my compass taking me backwards And I keep on running home And then looking at you I look to the sky Freckles of blue seem to sting my eye I know the clouds coat the upward see in white Oh walls I stared at in photographs Memories that melt my past To the seams of the pillows Which I used to lay Not today And I'm memorizing puzzles And missing my past To the future of unknown tales And I'm begging for it back It is rock and roll without a song No a burnt out tune love's done me wrong Ways to see people to meet And hysteric laughter becomes disease I'm melting in those memories oh I Could take the chance If you could too Bend the rules I'll be memorizing puzzles And I'll be missing my own past These futures of unknown tales And I'm begging for it back