Familiar Ground

Maybe it's a lost cause
 Flirting with a hope
 Put to a full pause
 A lesson learned to cope
 If someone's missing
 They may not want to be found
 It's best to leave it prodigal
 And find your familiar ground
 Staring down the corridor
 A season or a phase
 Love takes a darker form
 A sick but sweet malaise
 Poison or medicine
 The doctor won't compound
 The stuff is much dangerous
 Best find your familiar ground
 Crystal never was my gal
 Never matched her speed
 The pilgrims down on her path
 Always want more than they need
 Marianne told me the truth
 The detective phoned the pound
 I hoped to find the stray dog there
 That lost his familiar ground
 Well outside the range
 No service to make calls
 Between the desert sparks
 And just past the canyon walls
 The lady of the lake
 Said Galahad's not around
 And when I asked her about you
 Said you left for familiar ground
 An overstayed welcome
 Struck away my sense
 Broke down the bars of steel
 And the chains of providence
 Was it all fruitless?
 I should have been homebound
 But then a stranger asked my name
 And what I called familiar ground
 A year's worth of reconcile
 Burns at the devil's pace
 Hope when you left Panama
 You did so with grace
 If someone's missing
 They may not want to be found
 Best to leave it prodigal
 And find your familiar ground