Verse: Amaj7 A7sus2 A6sus4 AM7sus2 // Amaj7 A7sus2 A6sus4 Amaj7 (?) Chorus: Bm7 E Amaj7 // A6sus4 AM7sus2 (?) when the novel becomes a chapter when the chapter becomes a line when the story you’ve been chasing after becomes once upon a time tear it up and let it fly tell it to somebody in the sky punctured or punctuated by the dot above the i when a friendship becomes a footnote when a hug becomes parentheses when the story you thought you wrote becomes whose words were these?
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ain’t nothing new today ain’t nothing profound to say nothing of consequence achieved nothing that i lost was retrieved but i came home to you and you came home to me that’s more than a lot of folks can say there’s something to being with you at the end of a nothing kind of day ain’t nothing crossed off the list ain’t nothing worth my unclenched fist nothing made work more than a check nothing made my head less of a wreck if i wore all the bells, if i blew all the whistles
if i drew the parallels, if i called my officials would you want me? would you want me? if i cashed a bigger check, if i cooked a better dinner if i slept more or less, if i went to bed a winner would you want me? would you want me? if i lost all the weight, if i started medication if i stopped to meditate, if i understood creation would you want me? would you want me? i’ve got nothing left i can balance on that lady with the blindfold is gone her scale and her sword have nothing more to say it was just us then, it’s just me now where’s the justice in time running out i’m trying to transcend but it sinks further in every day so I keep company with well-known cons i’m confident they’re my confidants and the pros won’t speak to me they are prone to secrecy and i don’t know if I’ll ever get through it cause I’ve been the only one swearing them to it there’s no wisdom now, no prudence here if I’m reckless or cautious, i really don’t care this snake and this mirror just slithered nearer to prey i don’t feel courage and i’m not in control i can’t produce faith and i won’t be consoled and i’m losing all hope that i’ll ever know better todays asking you to think of me sounds so absurd girl i could never work up the nerve your lightning smiles and thunder eyes are elements i crave but i could never bring myself to brave cooked up some big plans for you and i they’re burning up like a pie in the sky we're not getting anywhere but goodbye once smitten i’m twice shy i could be the one to give love like you deserve but honey i could never work up the nerve dreams of us superfluous in this reality being conscious of you made a coward of me maybe you’ll like telling jokes maybe you’ll like reading poems maybe you’ll like something we don’t we’ll probably mess something up like misplace your best sippy cup if it gets hard enough to give up, we won’t we’re building a home for you a place you can grow into anything you want to be you will be safe with us we’ll earn your faith, your love, your trust give you our heart, net, and key maybe you’ll cheer for the bears maybe speak french, eat eclairs maybe you’ll do something brand new we’re gonna learn as you grow we’re gonna teach what we know if you wonder who loves you the most, we do so you're not speaking, you don't like the way your voice quakes but you're teaching your children with every sound that you don't make so you're not marching, you don't like it when your feet ache but your children are watching every step that you don't take it's not good enough to leave well enough alone they got weapons of war, we got pens, shoes, and microphones do you love enough to not leave well enough alone? so you're not giving, you don't really have a dime to spare but your children are invested in a future that you won't share so you're not searching, you'd rather play your trump card but your children are hurting with every fact that you disregard Verse: Em G D A slide to G Chorus: E G A B // end on A we used to have a way with words now we don’t say too much we used to unwrap like verbs now we just tap to touch we used to have things to do now we got screens illuminating we used to attach like glue now the connection’s isolating what’s the hold up, girl? you got something to say? you got a way with words and they had their way with me we used to just rise and shine now we just duck and cover we used to breathe words like wine now we delete each other *some lines from this song are pulled from Elizabeth Gilbert’s Big Magic as reference/wink to the book. How to Be a Winner When You Lose was a song prompt from Eagles Songwriter Jack Tempchin Verse: D C Bm A Chorus: D A G A // G A D C Bm G A it's not like i was asking loss to be my best friend but she stuck around when the chips were down i've always found her at the bitter end it's not like i've forgotten where the doors are or how to knock them i quite like the sound of the pavement pounding underneath the steps of my ambition i wanted big magic the kind of life that shoots across the sky lighting up the dark i've got this book of matches wet with regret, splintered with time and I can't find the spark seems like big magic's only big hat trick is to go when she knows you blew a fuse she'll leave you sitting in the dim learning how to be a winner when you lose it's not like I'm complaining about the waxing and the waning i prefer the rise and fall of a curve ball i'm always honored by her visitation it's not like i am choiceless or powerless or voiceless but i feel so weak, it gets hard to speak in the ruthless furnace of expectation *written to the tune of “Part of Your World” from The Little Mermaid i guess it's trump, what a crushing defeat can't believe he's allowed in the president's seat can't everyone see he's an ass - an ass who hates everything? look at his team, dangers untold how many disasters can one cabinet hold? somebody pass me a drink, at this point i’ll drink anything he hates brown people, gays, the disabled he hates women and science and more i was sure no one thought he was able i was wrong, now I'm scared, of what's in store i wanna be where the sheeple aren't i wanna see humanity advancing exercising your, what do you call it? oh - brain grabbing pussies got trump this far not paying taxes or his employees bragging about, what's that word again? rape sexual assault is not fucking fun, just ask his victims, every last one the jock gets away and the best we can say: rape's just part of our world what would i give if i could live where people were smarter? not pray away gay, or get in the way of a parenthood planned don't you understand this is a man who has objectified his daughter? still there are women who voted him in, it's unreal as his tan i'm not ready to reap what the people sow we've got some questions, let's find the answers starting with lessons we've already, i don't know…learned when's it our turn? we know what we need: to live in a land ruled by love and not greed out of the debris, how about you and me take charge of our world? |
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