Restoration Lyrics - Waterdeep

written by Don Chaffer on 3/18/99 (from about midnight to 8:00 am) 

got to restore 

got to restore 

got to restore 

got to restore 

Sometimes it's late at night 

I'm thinkin but I'm not quite 

there. Everywhere that I turn 

It's a county fair 

This booth, that booth, I'm everything that's uncouth 

and I can't keep nothing straight except my front tooth 

Late night NPR 

programming'll go far 

listenin to Kerouac 

in a French Quarter bar 

I was not a beatnik 

I didn't do the speed 

but I could get high on the pages I'd read 

CHORUS 

Oh, got to restore 

Oh, got to restore 

Oh, got to restore 

Oh, got to restore 

I get fascinated by the strangest things 

and my wife has to deal with my wide mood swings 

Some nights are mellow 

Some nights are okay 

But I don't want things to just stay this way 

I left the bacon fryin in a pan last night 

I heard a baby cryin in the man inside 

Untended, unmended, my needs are open-ended 

But I believe you can heal the way I feel 

The river I'm thinking of 

doesn't have a stink above 

the water from the waste that's been dumped therein 

This river is crystal, not method, not madness 

The river is rolling, and the river is life 

Now I ain't being funny 

and I ain't being queer 

I'm gonna say it simple 

and I'm gonna say it clear 

The bridegroom is coming 

The bridegroom is coming 

Are you ready to be a member of his wife? 

Now, let me take you to a place 

farther than outer space 

Everything is different 

and you love it that way 

Every tear is dried up 

every demon tied up 

Nothing of the aching is around out here 

All the things you hated 

have all been decimated 

Even those things inside of you 

no more being worried 

and no more being bored 

Everything ever lost has been restored 

restoration 

restoration 

restoration 

restoration