Living Boys, Dead Men We breathe We hear We see We dream And die anyway A boy has a hundred and ten feelings Each one a different color Then they grow up Everything becomes black and white, or just gray It’s cool to fight Afraid to love And lonely inside They’re becoming men Having more important things to do Like… (more…)
Lessons To Learn Fred’s an old one He is a slow and tired man He used to be a salesman He is still a salesman But no one will buy him He walks away By himself Alone He had stories to tell We have lessons to learn Why will he die without us? Martha weeds her garden She grew up… (more…)
She Is Easy To Me She’s a liberated woman But she’s not a woman’s liber She’s a solid oak tree But she bends with the wind She’s a bird flying high But never loosing sight of her nest In a world full of cubicles She makes herself a seat A battle for her But hard for those who cannot see… (more…)
Just Want To Help I try to help Trip Fall And mess everything up You frown Please don’t be mad Sorry I’m just a clown I only want to help If you can teach me I will learn If you can show me I will see If you will explain I will understand I’m a professional nice guy Trying to… (more…)
The Sea Our ships on an open course Swimming in the sea I look over the side and wonder how it could be Clear dark blue, but the bottom can’t be seen then I look to my side To sight the flying fish of the sea They look like little airplanes skipping like a stone Though they fly through the… (more…)
Today is the Way Yesterday has gone away You mustn’t borrow On tomorrow Today is the way For yesterday has gone away Today determines tomorrow Today is the way By: Roger Harkness ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I don’t know exactly when I wrote this, I just know I wrote it a long time ago. I just recently learned a couple years ago that… (more…)
Life On Planet Earth A fish gets caught when it takes the bait The fisherman throws it back A fly gets caught in a spider web The spider will attack And an elephant is frightened by a mouse Just when we thought we understood We thought we knew our place And knew for what to stand A raging bull tripped… (more…)
I’ve Been Deceived Again So many times I’ve been deceived And I don’t know how it happens It seems that I will not listen But I hear them words anyway They cycle through my head And I think I’ve figured out a way The day turns into darkness Filled with delusions I am blessed with confusion Reality hits me in… (more…)
Here We Go Again I’ve been on top of the mountain and I’ve been in the valley I remember the past and I know the future I’m not always right and I’m not always wrong Things don’t always go as planned One thing I know for sure I’ve been there and you may be too I wish I could tell… (more…)
I’m Still A Nice Guy I once was cute in your eyes But now I’m a bad man In the eyes of a good woman A man of pain To a woman of hurt I want to hold you And tell you I’m really a nice guy And if you would let me I’d give you a glass of sunshine… (more…)