This arrangement of Stainless pays homage to Escape From New York by John Carpenter.

Listen to Stainless by Richard Charles Stevens (New Yorker Suite)

In this dream state
I am weightless
Ancient keepsake
Of the ageless
.

Had to be courageous
In the face of flaming pyre
Had to grieve in stages
To explain the trailing wire

(Feel a sweet ache
It is painless)
Gather all the traces
Of remaining vague desire
Put myself through paces
In the name of raising fire

(As these tears fade
I am stainless)
.

Had to blaze flirtatious
To escape from grave disaster
Be put through my paces
With the aim of running faster

(Seek unique ways
To exchange gifts)
Reacquaint my yesterdays
With better days hereafter
Demonstrate the state of grace
Acclaimed of great forefathers
(Thus exceed gains
When the veil lifts)
.

Every faint glimpse
Of innate bliss
Is a quaint kiss
To my pale lips
.

Had to play the river
To enable faith to blind me
Had to stay and glimmer
For the waifs and strays behind me
Had to break the stigma
Or else take the fate advised me
Had to play enigma
To escape the maze designed me
.

Make discreet way
To oasis
Should I keep faith
Turn the pages

.

Had to squeeze the trigger slow
To blow my brains inside me
Had to seek a place to go
Disgrace would never find me

(Weep a keepsake
Of the ages)
Had above foreseen below
Then I’d have smiled politely
Even so
I would have shown
The love known to ignite me

(As these tears fade
I am stainless)
.
Had above foreseen below
Then I’d have smiled politely
Even so
I would have shown
The love known to ignite me

(As these tears fade
I am stainless)
.
In this dream state
I am lifted
Feel the sweet rain
Of ellipsis
See the sun play
Blow it kisses
Save the moon face
And eclipse it
.
Need not run raids
On the one place
Where on glum days
I am lifted
Having won praise
Of the sun rays
In this moon phase
I then shifted
.
In this dream state
I am weightless
In the deep space
Ever spacious
With the keen grace
Of a Geisha
As these tears fade
I am stainless
.

Richard Charles Stevens

Keeper of The Crimson Quill

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