Parasol

No more than a cardboard stage
No struggle for an answer
A line for you to sell
And no matter what may change
Treat your questions like a cancer and
In time you'll hide your burden well
Make me believe it's not make-believe
Incentive to justify all of this longing inside
My parasol
Shield from the falling
Sky that I envision is nigh

Standing by the water's edge
And weighing all my options
To leave behind what has brought me ashore
Trying in vain to hedge
Whispering a word of caution
The raft is swept to sea forever more…

(Make me believe it's not make-believe incentive to justify all of this longing inside…)

…And you're still there, tearfully I wave farewell
Our paths divide, no use to hide our despair

(Hallucinated protection, Natural Parasol, save us all from despair)