Pale Blue Sky

Me and DLE done this one when he was up in Coats, NC and I was in Virginia for a spell. It was, and remains, the only bluegrass song we ever did. It does, however stand pretty doggone well on it's own. I have removed the chorus here because, while it worked really well in the song version, it interrupts the rhyme scheme when read as a poem.

Pale Blue Sky

If you ain't got lovin' and you ain't got time
You ain't got nothin' to ease your mind
If you ain't got nothin' to ease your mind
Then there ain't no reason to be denied

I went to the mountain and I climbed so high
I was knocking my head against the pale blue sky
Laid out cold I awoke to find
I was wrapped in the arms of a strange desire

Suddenly I'm thinking what a subtle innuendo
Angel got the smile but she hasn't got the halo
Hasn't got a halo and I'm wondering why
Wonder why she hasn't got no wings to fly

Wasn't for the pain, wasn't for the glory
Wasn't for the pleasure, it wasn't for the stories
Wasn't but a minute by the way she smiled
Wasn't no explainin' that strange desire

I've fallen in love and I've wandered astray
Been a simple mind from the very first day
From the very first day been a smoldering fire
In the hidden places a touch inspired

Angel and me spin our own little swirl
Halo high water she's one hell of a girl
Been from the dark to the sun to the sky
To the scene of the crime to a strange desire

Tried to lock her up in a silver cage
Smile come to fade in a terrible rage
Terrible rage rode the wind like fire
The winds was whipping the flames up higher

If you ain't got lovin' and you ain't got time
You ain't got nothin' to ease your mind
If you ain't got nothin' to ease your mind
Then you might best leave this world behind

Ed
Portsmouth, VA