Familiar Ground

Maybe it's a lost cause
Flirting with a hope
Put to a full pause
A lesson learned to cope
If someone's missing
They may not want to be found
It's best to leave it prodigal
And find your familiar ground

Staring down the corridor
A season or a phase
Love takes a darker form
A sick but sweet malaise
Poison or medicine
The doctor won't compound
The stuff is much dangerous
Best find your familiar ground

Crystal never was my gal
Never matched her speed
The pilgrims down on her path
Always want more than they need
Marianne told me the truth
The detective phoned the pound
I hoped to find the stray dog there
That lost his familiar ground

Well outside the range
No service to make calls
Between the desert sparks
And just past the canyon walls
The lady of the lake
Said Galahad's not around
And when I asked her about you
Said you left for familiar ground

An overstayed welcome
Struck away my sense
Broke down the bars of steel
And the chains of providence
Was it all fruitless?
I should have been homebound
But then a stranger asked my name
And what I called familiar ground

A year's worth of reconcile
Burns at the devil's pace
Hope when you left Panama
You did so with grace
If someone's missing
They may not want to be found
Best to leave it prodigal
And find your familiar ground