Once when I was thirty-one  I woke in the dead of night  And heard the vastness of the snowfall outside  Slipped downstairs in my bare feet  Soon forgotten freezing  And poured a milk glass full  To wait out the tide    It's been a decade and one  Been a decade and one my friend  Decade and one  Since i've    As the white went down  I thought of the child upstairs  I thought of the god upstairs  That I couldn't believe  I thought of the chosen man  Asleep on his side of the bed  How green becomes wood in the family tree    Been a decade and one  Been a decade and one so soon  Decade and one  Since i stood so proud  And so unsure    Ebony glowing by the window there  As always  Fingers kissed the keys oh so tenderly  Cool ivory returned in kind  I thought of anger and adulation  And the taste of dreams realized  And the waste dreams realized leave behind    Decade and one  Decade and one  I said out loud    Decade and one  And I am here  And I am here still standing