"DOOR INTO SUMMER"
(Yes, this is that old Monkees tune!)
"What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his own soul?
Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?" - Matthew 16:26
"I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. He will come in and go out,
and find pasture."
- John 10:9
With his fool's gold stacked up all around him
From a killing in the market on the war
The children left King Midas there as they found him
In his counting house where nothing counts but more
(Chorus:)
And he thought he heard the echoes of a pennywhistle band
And the laughter from a distant caravan
And the brightly painted line of circus wagons in the sand
Fading through the door into summer
With his travelogue of maybe next year's places
As a trade-in for a name upon the door
And he pays for it with years he cannot buy back with his tears
When he finds out there's been no one keeping score
(Repeat chorus)
(Fading through the doorway into summer)
(Repeat chorus)
Fading through the door into summer
(Repeat and fade)