Category: Poetry (Page 1 of 7)

I was talkin’ bout you
Just the other day
How you took off like a shooting star
And couldn’t stay
I was thinkin’ bout you
My head was spinning round
Like a feather in the air
Until it hits the ground
I was dreamin’ of the
Things I didn’t say
They’re gone for good or worse
But I wonder where they are today
Yeah I was talkin’ bout you
Just the other day
But don’t you worry
I wouldn’t have an ugly thing to say

I was talkin’ bout you
Just the other day
How you took off like a rocket
Bound for outer space
But I keep dreamin’ bout you
My head keeps spinning round
I wish that feather in the air
Would finally hit the ground
So I’d stop thinking bout you
So I could let you go
But like that feather, you spin forever
Yeah on the wind you float
Yeah I was talkin’ bout you
Just the other day
But don’t you worry
I wouldn’t have an ugly thing to say

By the, time I’m up in the morning
Oh the city’s a zoo
Gotta battle the lions and tigers
And the bears just to make it through
And I’m feeling the stress
And I’m feeling the strain
Cause it’s hard feeling human
In this animal game

And I just don’t get it
I thought that I’d forget it
But I remember oh
Every single second
Oh it embedded
Deep inside my head
And I just can’t let it go
Oh I’m just an animal

I take the train to the office
I work the nine till the five
I have a nice peaceful evening
But wonder if I’m alive
Cause, sometimes I wake up at night
And have to howl at the moon
Am I a beast of the fire
Or a creature to croon?

Oh cause I just don’t get it
I thought that I’d forget it
But I remember oh
Every single second
Oh it embedded
Deep inside my head
And I just can’t let it go
Oh I just an animal

Oh ya
Look up
To see what’s for seein
Cause ya know you’ll look out there
And find what you’re needin
But the
Whole world
Is spinning in circles
And you’re scared that you might fall on your ass
So ya
Hold tight
To all that you’re grievin
And ya’d swear its not hard
But it’s so hard believin
That the
whole world
Is spinning in circles
Just to keep ya lined up on the path
So ya
Let go
You’re free from the surface
And ya try to find one
but ya can’t find the purpose
Cause the
Whole world
Is spinning in circles
And ya know that it’s just too much to grasp
So ya just
Sit back
Ya don’t need a reason
Cause ya know you’ll look out there
And find what you’re needin
Oh the
Whole world
Is spinning in circles
But ya swear that it’s a beautiful flash

I been cryin’
The sea’s dead
I been drownin’
Now that it’s over my head
I been runnin’ round
On those things that you said
They been runnin’ round
Oh round in my head
Like a rabbit on a greyhound track
They won’t gimme no room
They won’t gimme no slack

And the snowflakes sang
Steady and full
Tugging on my heartstrings
Pushing as I pull
Up on the wires
Down on my head
Out from the window
Next to my bed
The morning has broken
The blackbird’s gone south
Though his song’s found a way
To come out of my mouth
Call me a mimic
Call me a mockingbird
I’ll sing for the day
I’ll savor the words

You always tell me I should take my time,
but I think patience is a bore.
You always say I’m looking out for mine,
but you been looking out for yours.
We been fighting through the seasons,
hoping love would run it’s course.
Some new, awful kind of treason;
we’ll stand for sentence, they’ll be mine and yours.
You always tell me I should take my time,
but I think patience is a bore.
You always say I’m looking out for mine,
but what is mine is yours.
Let’s make love with the lights down low,
so bright eyes flicker in the soft light’s glow.
Let’s make love with the lights down low;
forget about mine and yours.

I don’t know that I should beware.
There’s somethin’ about your goddamn stare.
I don’t know that I even care.
Yeah I should stick around tonight.
I don’t know what you have in store,
waitin’ behind your bedroom door.
I don’t know what I came here for,
but I think that I should turn out the lights.
There she was in the dark of night.
I was wonderin’ how she could shine so bright.
There she was in the dark of night,
lookin’ like a lonely star.
I was thinkin’ oh.
Watchin’ like a video.
Wishin’ i could go and just press rewind.
I was singin’ oh.
Comin’ through in stereo.
Turn it up till it just blows my mind.

Oh my father,
I haven’t written for a while.
I’ve been trying hard to fight this frown;
trying hard to smile.
I haven’t forgotten
how my name’s built off your own.
And no matter how lonely,
know I’m never alone.
I kept all of your records.
I don’t listen enough.
That Little Feat album always makes me cry
so it can be a little tough.
I heard American Pie on the radio.
I still know all the words.
And I swear I heard you sing along
up on the wire with the birds.
I sing about you all the time.
Do you hear me up above?
I found a girl I really like.
I think it could be love.
And I ‘d really like to show you,
but I think that you can see.
Cause I’d really like to thank you
for the man I turned out to be.

I woke up with your golden hair
all strewn across my chest.
I wished my eyes could take a photograph.
I wondered if I breathed it in
and held in all my breath,
I could find a way to make the moment last.
Tried to hold it in,
but had to let it go.
They say that what you love
you really just can’t hold.
That say that what you want
can get away sometimes.
But that what you need,
you get it if you try.

I looked at some of the pictures
that you left on my laptop.
I found one of your long blonde hairs
and remembered how it never stops.
I caught your scent on my pillow.
I wrote your name in a poem.
I went and jumped off the footbridge again.
I learned all the lyrics to ‘Home’.
I bought you a ukulele;
it’s a different color than mine,
but maybe we can play ’em together
when I see you again next time.
I could come to Arizona.
We could meet up in San Fran.
I don’t give a fuck; it could be anywhere.
For you I’d swim to Japan.

All tangled in hair;
our bodies half bare.
I’m without a care.
I’ve let down my guard.
The birds in the air;
the mountains up there;
I better beware
or I might fall hard.
But falling is worth it
if I fall into you.
All tangled in one,
I’m spinning; I’m spun.
But dizzy as I may be,
I still see so clearly
you and me.
Arms and legs bent askew;
wrapped one up from two.
Wrapped all through and through
from our limbs to our hearts.
A collision so true
a light formed anew.
A flame bursting blue
from the heat of our sparks.
But burning is worth it
if I burn into you.
All tangled in one,
I’m spinning; I’m spun.
But dizzy as I may be,
I still see so clearly
you and me.

[Co-written by Jacqueline Dunford]

Oh your love’s like a wall made of brick
and it’s 20 feet thick
and 400 feet tall.
And I try to crawl under;
I try to climb over,
but I either just get stuck or fall.
So I drove out to Portland;
I drew you a picture;
I wrote you a love song.
But I lent you my keyboard
so now I’ve got nothing;
least that is to play on.
So I’ve just been scratching my head
’bout how to get into your bed
or better instead;
into one of your songs.
Into one of your songs;
that’s where I belong
so you can play it and look at the picture.
Hear me singing along
even though I’m long gone
to your words as holy as scripture.

Oh I been livin’ in the city,
but man it got the best of me.
Maybe I’ll move out to the country.
Maybe I’ll move across the sea.
I’ll find a nice place in the jungle,
oh way up in the canopy.
Or maybe on a desert island
in the shade of a coconut tree.
Cause I been livin’ in the city
and damn it got the best of me.
Cause I just can’t be close to you
if you just can’t get close to me.
Oh I been livin’ in the city,
but man it got the best of me.
I think I’ll take off in a spaceship
and go explore the galaxy.
Oh I been livin’ a bubble
afraid of all the birds and bees.
Maybe I’ll build myself a sailboat
and go and sail the seven seas.
Cause I been livin’ in the city
and damn it got the best of me.
Cause I just can’t be close to you
if you just can’t get close to me.
Oh I been livin’ in the city,
but man it got the best of me.
I think I’ll send myself a postcard
from Belize or Italy.
I’ll make sure I take lots a’ photos
and put ’em up for all to see,
but you won’t see me in the city
cause man, the city’s killin’ me.
Cause I been livin’ in the city
and damn it got the best of me.
Cause I just can’t be close to you
if you just can’t get close to me.

It’s gettin’ cold up in the Northwest woods
and the sun down in the Tropics has been lookin’ good.
I don’t wanna live the life that they say I should.
I don’t need it no more.
Headin’ down to Californ-I-A
and I’m hopin’ that my problems here will all just stay.
If not I guess I’ll throw ’em in the Frisco Bay.
I won’t see ’em no more.
Travel down to San Diego town.
Gonna catch a little sun and watch my skin turn brown.
At the bottom of it all is where it all goes down.
I won’t worry no more.
Cross the border into Mexico
where the Señoritas shake it for a few pesos.
No hablo Español but I am so bueno,
I ain’t hurtin’ no more.

When I met the girl with the blonde, wavy hair
and the blue eyes like diamonds I just had to stare
till the walls started closing
and sky caving in
and a voice started shouting
so deep from within,
“Go get her. Don’t let her
get too far away.
If you do then you know
you’ll regret it one day.
Go get her. Don’t let her
get out of your sight.
If you do you’ll regret it
some cold lonely night.”
Then the air started swirling
and the music went dead,
as the thoughts started whirling
around in my head.
And I felt like a bottle
of shook up champagne,
as made my way over
to try to explain
how I’d seen her, had to have her,
and come over to ask her
for a drink, or a dance,
or a chance at disaster.
And to my delight she said,
“I been lookin’ your way,
and when I saw you comin’ over,
that’s what I hoped you would say.”
No we didn’t waste a minute
and we were kissin’ on the floor.
I didn’t have a lick of clothing
by the time we hit the door.
And we went back to her apartment.
She took me back to see her place.
And there weren’t no holes in the ceiling,
but I swear I saw outer space.
And then she took off like a rocket.
Now you can see her in the stars.
You know she’s somewhere East of Eden,
North of Venus, South of Mars.