The soft ground beckons temptingly
Now give yourself up to the trance
Live once again in fantasies
Of passionate romance

Reality is chained away
In musty cells of careless rot
Freed from its weight, your mind irate
Indulges sweeter thought

Of glorious rapture, healing bliss
Life flowing through a lover's kiss
Completeness that you sorely miss
For you have known it not

With burning tears, you must admit
The life you've lived cannot recall
The saving touch of a true love's lips
Nor any lips at all

But scorn that pain, and dive once more
Your mind's caress, though weak, must do
Though all the while you vainly smile
It is consuming you

back to the highway that never ends