Palace Guard - Ricky Nelson, The Stone Canyon Band

With handmade silver sparkles

Like a well-dressed sequined whore

Your lady-like deceptions

Keep reaching out for more

And you ask me for nothing

And nothing’s not enough

And the fisherman he puts a claim on you

But it’s nothing but a bluff

So with jealous hands tied round my back

I stumble 'cross the floor

Not knowing how to speak

I keep reaching for the door

I know you know me well I say

'Cause I’m the palace guard

Remember me, we made love today

At the King’s bazaar

And you look at me with eyes that never see

I can feel something start to die inside of me

So before you show me everything

There’s something you must know

I’ve worked with your friend John the Geek

And his sidewalk travelin show

I know your childhood tailored dreams are very well disguised

So you don’t have to fake it anymore it’s all been memorized

And you speak in wordless freedoms never seen

Now I realize to you it’s all a dream

And you speak to me with feelings

As real as sealing wax

As the nearness dawns the moth is gone

Leaving trailless tracks

All you village people

Sing your songs of the morning sunlit sky

Don’t you think it’s time we moved along

Said the raven to the fly