Funny how some of the things you are certain will last a lifetime blow out of your life as quickly as they blew in. I guess it's all about balance on some level. Right now balance is an unfamiliar term, but that isn't necessarily a negative. It simply means I'm being tested and cautioned to slow down and perhaps consider reassessment.
I was thinking today about hurricane, Earl. A category 4 the last time I had a minute of free time to watch the news. I remember being a teenager back in Massachusetts and we were under a strict hurricane warning for Grace or Gladys (can't quite recall) also a category 3 or 4 at the time. We taped up the front porch windows and cleared all of my mother's beautifully and strategically placed lawn furniture and flower pots from the yard. I remember feeling the storm was becoming more imminent with each item I carried to the shed and I was frightened, and as foolish as it sounds, incredibly excited about the forthcoming catastrophe. Once I got older and [...]
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BUTTERCUP
c. Kerripowerssongs, BMI
There's barking in the moonlight and shadows on the fringe
Papa turned the bed down but I ain't jumpin' in
I got to go
Wanna go someplace where the dogs won't bite
Too much wreckage here
Can't feel my buttercup
First you say you love me now you're just not sure
I'm tired of sweeping breadcrumbs
Off your kitchen floor
I got to go
Wanna lay myself down in a field of love
Leave this wreckage here
Find my buttercup
BRIDGE: You know there's nothing wrong with change
And Darlin', something's never change
In the hours before the daylight I'm dusting off the road
Stepping over barbwire into pastures overgrown
A lovely sight
I can feel the dew drops between my toes
Waiting for the sunshine to fill my buttercup
Lord, there's plenty sunshine here to fill me up
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JOSEPHINE (YOU GOT NOTHING BUT TIME)
c. Kerripowerssongs, BMI
You're lying with his pillow trying hard to see his face
Got to close your eyes
To see the lines around his mouth
And it's keeping you awake
Hope's drawn in from the headlights
Cast through the blinds from down the street
You won't hear the door close in the driveway
But swear you feel him on the sheets
Josephine
You got nothing but time
It'll be all right tomorrow
Box his clothes up for the church
Sort through a closet fallen hems and mended seams
Maybe keep that old blue shirt
Learn to bleed the radiators
Every night's too long and cold
You'll be the one to set the clocks back from now on
You thought you'd be the first to go
Josephine
You got nothing but time
BRIDGE: Count the loose change on his dresser
It won't amount to much
Won't amount to much at all
Josephine
You got nothing but time
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LIKE YOU DID
c. Kerripowerssongs, BMI
Nobody's gonna greet the morning sun
Lay around on a Saturday for once
Closing eyes when buttons come undone
Like you did with me
Nobody's gonna applaud my plan
Clean the gutters put a paintbrush in my hand
Stay up late when I'm playing in the band
Like you did for me
Bridge: Let's admit
down at the core of it
We both loved so large it hurts
Nobody's gonna put me in my place
Kiss the lines of worry on my face
Unfolding maps to navigate
Like you did for me
Nobody's gonna share something to eat
Tip toe in to watch the baby sleep
Build a life beyond the potholes in this street
Like you did with me
You did with me
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On the Fly
c. Kerripowerssongs, BMI
I got a room on the end this time
Copied voices down the hall
The only thing that shifts around these places
Is the sunlight on the walls
Pulled the curtain and it dawned on me
As I set down both my bags
We won't share this double bed
Countless people have
*Why call me up - so late last night
How we gonna work this out
On the fly?
Try not to feel the weight
of time that slipped between
sleeping in your arms
and staying lost to keep the peace
And watch the pigeons leave the neon sign
from the next key holder's view
it's almost quarter to the hour
The train is leaving soon
*Why call me up - so late last night
How we gonna work this out
On the fly
BRIDGE: Both hands on the trapeze
I'll catch you when I can
Repeat chorus/End
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