Left and Leaving

My city’s still breathing (but barely it’s true)
through buildings gone missing like teeth.
The sidewalks are watching me think about you,
sparkled with broken glass.
I’m back with scars to show.
Back with the streets I know.
Will never take me anywhere but here.
The stain in the carpet, this drink in my hand,
the strangers whose faces I know.
We meet here for our dress-rehearsal to say “I wanted it this way”
wait for the year to drown.
Spring forward, fall back down.
I’m trying not to wonder where you are.
All this time lingers, undefined.
Someone choose who’s left and who’s leaving.
Memory will rust and erode into lists of all that you gave me:
a blanket, some matches, this pain in my chest,
the best parts of Lonely, duct-tape and soldered wires,
new words for old desires,
and every birthday card I threw away.
I wait in 4/4 time.
Count yellow highway lines that you’re relying on to lead you home.

by The Weakerthans
Song discovered, as usual, thanx to my long time friend Greg with whom I can always share all the weirdest music in the world

A song for my kids :o)

Have I told you lately that I love you
Have I told you there’s no one else above you
Fill my heart with gladness
Take away all my sadness
Ease my troubles, that’s what you do

For the morning sun in all its glory
Greets the day with hope and comfort too
You fill my life with laughter
And somehow you make it better
Ease my troubles thats what you do
There’s a love that’s devine
And its yours and its mine, like the sun
And at the end of the day
We should give thanks and pray
To the one, to the one 

“Have I told you lately that I love you” by Rod Stewart

Life comes in stages…

Taking a “thinking” breather, heard this song, had to post… takes me WAY back! LOL

Crash and Burn

by Savage Garden

When you feel all alone
And the world has turned it’s back on you
Give me a moment please to tame your wild wild heart
I know you feel like the walls are closing in on you
It’s hard to find relieve and people can be so cold
When darkness is upon your door and you feel like you can’t take anymore

Let me be the one you call
If you jump I’ll break your fall
Lift you up and fly away with you into the night
If you need to fall apart
I can mend a broken heart
If you need to crash then crash and burn
You’re not alone

When you feel all alone
And a loyal friend is hard to find
You’re caught in a one way street
With the monsters in your head
When hopes and dreams are far away and
You feel like you can’t face they day

Let me be the one you call
If you jump I’ll break your fall
Lift you up and fly away with you into the night
If you need to fall apart
I can mend a broken heart
If you need to crash then crash and burn
You’re not alone

Because there has always been heartache and pain
And when it’s over you’ll breathe again
You’ll breath again

A pause for some lyrics!

Blocking out the world with my headphones, heard some new lyrics that hit the bone… thought I’d make a pause with my “Journal Stories” and post them.

“Street Lights” by Kanye West

let me know, do I still got time to grow
things aint always set in stone
with that being, let me know
let me

seems like streetlights glowing
happened to be just like moments
passing, in front of me so
I hopped in, the cab and
I paid my fair, see
I know my, destination
but im just not there
all the streetlights glowing
happened to be just like moments
passing, in front of me so
I hopped in, the cab and
I paid my fair, see
I know my, destination
but im just not there in the streets
in the streets
I’m just not there in the streets
I’m just no there
life’s just not fair