Blues and yellows tap on my window
And I let the night go with all my shadows
And I, I feel the sun on my skin
It’s trying to tell me something I listen
Life is calling, life is calling
Life is calling out my name
Make it matter say it louder
Stay alive another day
Life is calling out my name
Perfect houses with good intentions
Where the happy families hide their broken dishes
And I, I hear the scars on my skin
They’re trying to tell me something so I listen
Life is calling, life is calling
Life is calling out my name
Make it matter say it louder
Stay alive another day
Life is calling out my name
It’s the wind over the ocean
It’s the secrets in the sand
It’s all trying to tell me something
So I’m listening
Life is calling, life is calling
Life is calling out my name
Make it matter just say it louder
Stay alive another day
Life is calling, life is calling
Life is calling out my name
My earth angel
Lost to the stars
Walking watching
Being pulled
From above
Leaving earth to
Serving on high
And above telling a lie
Our time is gone
I’m letting go
To find another
Who understands
Earth Angel
My requited love
© 2013 Michael Yost 05/21
http://mindlovemisery.wordpress.com/2013/05/19/prompt-4-music/
A Song from my birthday decade
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=vBnsNTBqzWQ
Sunshine blue skies please go away
The girl has found another and gone away.
With her went my future my life is filled with gloom
So day after day I stay locked up in my room.
I know to you, it might sound strange but I wish it would rain,
‘Cause so badly I wanna go outside
But everyone knows that a man ain’t supposed to cry
Listen, I gotta cry ’cause crying eases the pain,
Oh yeah, people this hurt I feel inside.
Words could never explain, I just wish it would rain.
Day in day out my tear-stained face
Pressed against the window pain,
My eyes search the skies desperately for rain,
Cause rain-drops will hide my tear -drops
And no one will ever know that I’m crying,
Crying when I go outside.
To the world outside my tears,
I refuse to explain, oh I wish it would rain,
Let it rain, let it rain.
I need rain to disguise the tears in my eyes.
Oh, let it rain.
I’m a man and I got my pride
Til’ it rains I’m gonna stay inside and let it rain.
Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing, Universal Music Publishing Group
No new schemes on the horizon’s plane
Holding down mutiny with some in chains
The stars can’t lie but for the cloud’s shadow
Two fortnights gone past with no place to paddle
Seas getting angry with two men overboard
When the seas were calm I offered a reward
The first bird seen or land on the horizon
Wins two gold crowns with two grog rations
The third fortnight we heard the screech of a gull
The first mate first found and pointed aft on the hull
Spirits are high blue is forever the sea and the sky
Isabella was happy over the booty and supplies
© 2013 Michael Yost 04/16
Old man on a barstool watching TV
Got up and came over to sit closer to me
He said “You look familiar to someone I knew
But when were your age we were older than you
Jimmy was twenty and I seventeen
And to us there was nothing but girls and machines
Jimmy got married and I went to war
I still don’t know what we were doing it for
But if you’ll buy me a drink–turkey on ice
Then I could give you some advice
“You just stay in the bar
For as long as you can
As long as you’re drinking
Then you’ve got the world in your hand
“There’s no shame in hanging your world by a string
And you know there’s no harm in not thinking a thing
But trying to find a place for yourself in this world
Is like trying to make a wife of an American girl
If you’ll trade me a drink for a story or two
Then you’ll know what you need to do
“You just stay in the bar
For as long as you can
You know love is for sissies
It’s whiskey that makes you a man”
Now the old man got up and stumbled out in the street
He’d been drinking all day and left his bar tab with me
I didn’t have the money to cover his bill
But I found me a man who looked like me, younger still
And said, “Buy me a drink and I’ll tell you a tale
About the old man who taught me so well
You just stay in the bar
For as long as you can
Hell I know you’re a friend
I can tell by the shakes in your hand
You just stay in the bar
For as long as you dare
As long as you’re tipping
Then you’ve got a good friend somewhere
Pic flickr
One of my favorites
As I walk along I wonder a what went wrong
With our love, a love that was so strong
And as I still walk on, I think of the things we’ve done
Together, a while our hearts were young
I’m a walkin’ in the rain
Tears are fallin’ and I feel the pain
Wishin’ you were here by me
To end this misery
And I wonder, I w-w-wonder
Why, why why she ran away?
And I wonder where she will stay?
My little runaway, run, run, run, run, runaway
I’m a walkin’ in the rain
Tears are fallin’ and I feel the pain
Wishin’ you were here by me
To end this misery
And I wonder, I w-w-wonder
Why, why why she ran away?
And I wonder where she will stay?
My little runaway, run, run, run, run, runaway
A run, run, run, run, runaway
“There’s no poetry between us”
Said the paper to the pen
Something’s burning in the attic
That her tongue will not defend
Through the arc of conversation
Past the teeth behind the smile
Down the miracle mile
To the bottom of the ladder
Paint your eyes and hide the tatters
What’s the matter baby?
Could we go downtown
To the middle of the world?
You were always such a pretty girl
And you told me I was beautiful
“There’s no poetry between us”
Said the paper to the pen
“And I get nothing for my trouble
But the ink beneath my skin”
If your clothes are getting weary
And your soul’s gone out of style
Blame the miracle mile
And the bottom of the ladder
Paint your eyes and hide the tatters
What’s the matter baby?
…I’m coming too
[ From: http://www.metrolyrics.com/no-poetry-lyrics-gary-jules.html ]
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