Just poetry
Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 9:43 pm
Everybody is making love
Or else expecting rain
Some speak of the future
My love she speaks softly
The guilty undertaker sighs,
The lonesome organ grinder cries,
The silver saxophones say I should refuse you.
The cracked bells and washed-out horns
Blow into my face with scorn,
But it's not that way,
I wasn't born to lose you.
The fiddler, he now steps to the road
He writes ev'rything's been returned which was owed
On the back of the fish truck that loads
While my conscience explodes
The harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain
And these visions of Johanna are now all that remain
That he not busy being born
Is busy dying
I'm a poet, and I know it
Hope I don't blow it.
Or else expecting rain
Some speak of the future
My love she speaks softly
The guilty undertaker sighs,
The lonesome organ grinder cries,
The silver saxophones say I should refuse you.
The cracked bells and washed-out horns
Blow into my face with scorn,
But it's not that way,
I wasn't born to lose you.
The fiddler, he now steps to the road
He writes ev'rything's been returned which was owed
On the back of the fish truck that loads
While my conscience explodes
The harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain
And these visions of Johanna are now all that remain
That he not busy being born
Is busy dying
I'm a poet, and I know it
Hope I don't blow it.