Elfland

Yeah, funny mood this afternoon.

I’ve been out wandering
In foggy country
Out where strange things exist
The edge of magic
The edge of science
Meet and merge in the mist

And I’ve come back with a book full of songs
A handful of tactics for righting old wrongs
And all you can say is I’ve been gone too long
You don’t know me at all

I’ve been out wandering
In hidden country
Out where your rejects reside
Where dreams are solid
Where words are fire
Out where the free thinkers hide

And all you tell me is you don’t care
You can’t put a meter on sunlight or air
You’ve got no use for the new world out there
You don’t know us at all

Guess I’ll go back there
With all I’ll get here
All that will help us go on
That country’s growing
With every outcast
You’ll never notice we’re gone

And when you’ve won all those games that you play
You just might see there’s no one left to pay
We’ll have the whole world that you threw away, and
We won’t know you at all

– Leslie Fish