Forever Lost and Found
Words and music by Tom May


Inspired by a true experience with a gifted tarot card reader, Barbara McDonald


Verse 1
The candle on the table lit the solemn decks of cards
Keeping secrets they’d reveal when they were told
A millennium of mystery locked inside the colored shapes
As the tarot deck was cut the room turned cold

Chorus
So do I try to change tomorrow, or lament the bitter past
Forget the foolish roads I’ve traveled down
With a gentle smile the gypsy said, your highway has no end
Your path will be forever lost and found

Verse 2
Images medieval from the long forgotten past
Pictures tied to the present so it seemed
She told me of my journeys and the loves that I’d left behind
the meanings of some half forgotten dreams

questions of my future lay upon the colored scarves
answered by the shrouded cards the reader turned
my life appeared transparent from the cradle to the grave
as next to me that lonely candle burned

Chorus
So do I try to change tomorrow, or lament the bitter past
Forget the foolish roads I’ve traveled down
With a gentle smile the gypsy said, your highway has no end
Your path will be forever lost and found

Verse 3
Suddenly she finished, and wrapped the mystic cards
Carefully inside the silken cloth
Leaving me to wonder if we are only threads of time
And there are timeless kinds of wisdom we have lost

Chorus
So do I try to change tomorrow, or lament the bitter past
Forget the foolish roads I’ve traveled down
With a gentle smile the gypsy said, your highway has no end
Your path will be forever lost and found

So do I try to change tomorrow, or lament the bitter past
Forget the foolish roads I’ve traveled down
With a gentle smile the gypsy said, your highway has no end
Your path will be forever lost and found

©1996 Blue Vignette Publishing, ASCAP