In the Middle of the Night Your river of tears, leads to your promised land!Just by deciding yourself, to go with the flow!Just swim along, with all the raging current!The One True Victory dispatches any fear!Golden silence become a hidden treasure!Silent explanations are all anyone needs!By giving to others we learn to receive!By accepting, learn how to give more!By loving, all learn how to be loved!By loving, we learn what it means!We all attract love, being lovable!Sowing love we live our dreams!I keep searching for something!Something I could never lose!Something, somebody, stole!Despite my knowing perfectly well!You can't ever lose your soul!You can't ever lose, your love!You can't lose, the fire within!Only feel like, you're forsaken!Only, feel lonely and confused!Only wish to find it elsewhere!Only wish you can get rid of it!Only wish, you could control it!Only wish your heart would lie!Only wish it could stop hurting!The lion, prowling in your mind!Possessing, an insatiable hunger!He just pretends to eat our souls!Never satiated he'll eat anything!Never satisfied just tasting ashes!Never approving he keeps moving,Refusing to accept, the inevitable,Refusing to accept what's possible,Refusing to accept our great truth!His very existence, a contradiction!His own hunger, is a contradiction!Nobody real, can ever hope to steal!What God alone, can actually own!What we alone may only give away!What he must first grant to himself!What is better, when forever shared!Dreaming in the middle of the night!I wander upon, a great well of souls!Wade into an endless river of dreams!Not sure, what is real or just a dream!Not sure, if I actually care which it is!Not quite sure, what it all might mean!None could ever steal their own dreams!None might avoid their own nightmares!None but ourselves, might ignore dreams!None might steal, the soul God gives you!None avoids any of their own nightmares!Nobody may lose anything, God gives you!Stay awake and we eventually hallucinate!In reality, no one lives without any dreams!Even if we seldom remember all our dreams!Dreaming, is a contradiction outside reality!Each leveling our field, in hopes we awaken!Each providing, what our awake mind can't!Each waking us up to what dreaming means!Each providing rumination, of our judgments!Each hoping to help, all the dreamers awaken!If the present doesn't matter, the future waits!If the future waits, the past decides the future!If the past decides the future its just a machine!If the past decides the future then none is home!Unable to give ourselves what we always reject!Without acceptance we forsake all contentment!Without contentment God is playing peek-a-boo;Bereft contentment, just go through the motions!Our self-fulfilling prophecy, that we cannot give!Our self-fulfilling prophecy, that we're unlovable;Unable to give we wander round as if in a dream!Unable to give, we won't look behind the curtains!Knowing none prevents themselves from dreaming!None amongst us, might ever pop another's bubble!None wakes a dreamer from their worst nightmare!For if not now, then when, if not today then when?A love that can be owned can never be given away!A love that may be given away can never be owned.That which comes around goes around being shared!God's gift to the universe which may only be shared!None may steal, what has been freely given to them!None can buy love on the New York stock exchange!None ever finds love, looking in all the wrong places!No one wins great love on any bloody hell battlefield!None discovers any great love, hiding under their bed!You'll never find it hidden at the bottom of the ocean!You'll never find it lying on the dark side of the moon!It cannot be acquired by mere force or material wealth!It cannot be acquired by abstract intellectual solutions!Begging, pleading, and coercion may never acquire love!That which may only spring forth freely from our souls.What all must first actually desire to give to themselves!What all must first present themselves freedom to choose!Failure is not an option when there exists no opposition!While leaving nothing undone can only embrace nothing!Busy back soon only comes back soon to haunt everyone!Allowing things to just happen we discover more choices!Embracing all of the more loving choices, we possibly can;By accepting things, including any freedom to reject them!The gift of grace accompanying awareness in the moment!Waves of sparkling light upon my waves of contentment!Affective shadows capture the light, before it may move;The obliging fountain spring of awareness within us all,Patiently waiting for us to accept, what it offers to us!My own silent voice still offers the loudest testament!Never attempts, to shape any of my thoughts for me,Silently offering me a chance at unlimited freedom,Enticing me with an open promise of acceptance,Merely offering what none possesses and more,If I yet surrender, to another soulful capture!Dancing, my delightful soulful redemption!I've never been sure about a life after this,God knows I've never been a spiritual man;Baptized by the fire I wade into the river,That runs into the promised land.In the middle of the night,I go walking in my sleep,Through the desert of truth,To the river so deep.We all end in the ocean,We all start in the streams,We're all carried along,By the river of dreams!In the middle of the night...
Billy Joel is famous among agnostics for such great lines as, "I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints" and I was particularly gratified to be able to use almost complete lyrics from his song by the same name which is also a great video for anyone interested. His song is proof that love knows no boundaries and agnostics can have as much swing in their soul as anybody.
