The Film Of Eternity



The Director says action, as the story begins

It’s a Rockefeller setting with a surrealistic lens

Emerson and Poe are working on the script

As Francis Scott Key writes the score from a ship.

Eastwood stands alone with a gun on the plains

As vicarious cowboys are feeling so mundane

Dylan weaves a tale about truth in the street

And Marco Polo rides toward Kubla Khan’s retreat.



Chorus:

What will your role be in The Film Of Eternity?

Will you change lives in the way you are perceived?

Will your part be something in which you do believe?

What will your role be in The Film Of Eternity?

In The Film Of Eternity?



Tears wet the pillows of the hungry child each night

As lives of the rich and famous are callused to their plight

Morality slips away one step at a time

It’s easier to swallow and to justify the crime.

The Holy Spirit hangs out, listening everywhere

As few seem to notice, few seem to care

Idolatry’s deception hides in selfishness

As Solomon points out that it’s all meaningless



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The Search party hunts for Sir Walter Raleigh

and the missing settlers from the Lost Colony

Dorothy tells the Tin Man to look at the audience

It’s filled with tearful eyes of lost innocence

Socrates’ death opened up Plato’s eyes

that leaders are so often not the most wise.

From givers and takers there’s doers and don’ts

that make or break the moments that hinge all their hopes.



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© Terry G. Reed 2003






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