We Were Young

 We Were Young

FAWM # 10

We didn’t know the truth but we saw the lie        

No one gave any answers when we asked why     

So we cried as we tried to reach the sky              

We had a good time baby getting high          

 

Love was a loose word on my tongue

Those years ago when we were young

Oh we had a song to be sung

In those days when we were young

 

Dancing romancing discovering about love

Kissing you sweetly completely the moon above

In the backseat of my car we took it far

Looking back I wished I learned the guitar

 

Love was a loose word on my tongue

Those years ago when we were young

Oh we had a song to be sung

In those days when we were young

 

We had wings but we feared leaving the ground

In a world lost where would the secrets be found

I held your hand we shared a common cause

Who were these teachers with their wicked laws

 

Love was a loose word on my tongue

Those years ago when we were young

Oh we had a song to be sung

In those days when we were young

 

If I could travel back in time I wouldn’t change a single thing

Now the blast of the past is simply about a crime I sing

Listen teens new to the scene understand I walked in your shoes

You got pop music and rock but only the old know the blues

 

Why do the good things simply fade to black

It’s hard even for the memories to come back

Trapped in the very future we feared to come

The slavedriver beats on his wicked drum

 

Love was a loose word on my tongue

Those years ago when we were young

Oh we had a song to be sung

In those days when we were young

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Dream Of Love

Dream Of Love

 FAWM #9

I had a dream of love that was true

Living nightmares mocked by evil stares seemed no one cares

I had a dream of love was that you?

Shut away from the light of day reciting endless prayers

I had more than my share of fights

How I cried away those lonely nights

I had a dream of love that was true

A tiny child I was so wicked and wild

Dreaming was about all I could do

 

I had a dream of a love that was true

Got the keys to the car drove it miles near and far

Searching the ebony heavens for some fatalistic star

I had a dream of love was that you?

So awkward and paranoid destroyed like a freak in a bizarre

Life had lessons but I didn’t have a clue

At eighteen they said you’re a man but I was still a boy

God is full of grace with smiles on His face I was a loner without joy

I had a dream of love that was true

The sinners are many the winners so few

 

I had a dream of love that was true

The perfect fool I went to school neat and clean

Forged to be a cog in some cosmic crushing machine

I learned the lessons of you’ll understand when you’re older

That humanity was a war and every night growing colder

I was lost in spiritual holocaust counting the cost

Mid July I wanted to die my heart a victim of bitter frost

I had a dream of love like a bird that flew

 

I had a dream of love was that true

You appeared a purple vision hotter than a sweltering summer day

One night we took a walk of delight sharing the now

I became alive gone was the jive of why and how

You gave me the sign of make me mine and have your way

But dreams are perfect scenes so I let the moment pass

Life kept us living you stopped giving now it’s the past

I had a dream of love that was true

When dreams die what are you supposed to do? 

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Down River

Down River

 FAWM #8

Sensationally sheik L’s into disco this week                            

Down at the new club voila the super freak                        

Dancing through the pain snorting cocaine’s a boost             

Just when them chickens coming home to roost?          

 

I went down river haven’t you heard

Flew south with a flock of birds

Lilly and Princess dropped by from time to time

Here I am down river and I’ve done no crime

 

Bishop works security an ex-Newark police man

I counted eighteen people who gave a damn

I look out of the window my lone escape

In my mind I find the repeating tape

 

I went down river haven’t you heard

Flew south with a flock of birds

Lilly and Princess dropped by from time to time

Here I am down river and I’ve done no crime

 

Sushi’s fine but the caviar’s simply divine

Oh I don’t know I just need something to call mine

The view from penthouse forty-five a pretty sight

Tears flow down her cheek something just ain’t right

 

I went down river haven’t you heard

Flew south with a flock of birds

Lilly and Princess dropped by from time to time

Here I am down river and I’ve done no crime

 

Billionaires don’t say prayers for the bums on the street

Rich man don’t know the hunger of having no food to eat

Pretty L I can tell your desire ain’t the stock market going higher

She’s a powder keg ready to beg to light her fire

 

Raven I wrote you a poem do you remember

For each win somebody gotta surrender

She’s mixing martinis in her new blender

Welcome to hell L so young and tender

 

I went down river haven’t you heard

Flew south with a flock of birds

Lilly and Princess dropped by from time to time

Here I am down river and I’ve done no crime

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Skinny Girls

 Skinny Girls

FAWM #7

Look at that front row cutie shaking her bootie               

A sexual soldier serving doing her duty                  

In the middle of the bright hot spotlight                           

Her uniform is a storm lightning tight                     

 

Skinny girls share a common fantasy

Skinny girls deny all reality

War is coming tomorrow but we got tonight

Skinny girls they’re feeling alright

 

She says “My name is Valerie but call me Val”

You be good to me make me happy I’ll be your pal

I’m reading her body language for sure

Sweating I’m betting we’re about to score

 

Skinny girls share a common fantasy

Skinny girls deny all reality

War is coming tomorrow but we got tonight

Skinny girls they’re feeling alright

 

I’m a cowboy who never lived on a ranch or farm

She’s says you may touch my jewels but please do me no harm

Skinny girls like water colors blend to one

Skinny girls singing “Yes we shall overcome”

 

Skinny girls share a common fantasy

Skinny girls deny all reality

War is coming tomorrow but we got tonight

Skinny girls they’re feeling alright

 

I see videos of skinny girls dominating Facebook

I’m a good Christian but I’m tempted to take a look

Skinny girls one step from a pornographic movie

Skinny girls they got me feeling groovy

 

Val says I’ve got some talent maybe you’d like to see?

In her birthday suit she taps both her head and tummy

I stand amazed looking forward to round two

Val grabs her clothes Oh I got a boyfriend too

 

Skinny girls share a common fantasy

Skinny girls deny all reality

War is coming tomorrow but we got tonight

Skinny girls they’re feeling alright

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Been There Done That (The Story of Mister Grumblecock)

 Been There Done That (The Story of Mister Grumblecock)

 FAWM #6

Mister Grumblecock a businessman obscene                   

He had a fascination with the Almighty green                      

Cut out the middleman play the game mean                         

Mister Grumblecock he’s a cog in the machine                    

 

Cat scratch fever been there done that

Las Vegas strippers pleasantly fat

More of this and plenty more of that

Love of money honey been there done that

 

Mister Grumblecock a traveling salesman

A necessary heartless part of the Master Plan

Flying first class cause yeah he’s paid his dues

Reading Wall Street Journal headlines thinking its news

 

Cat scratch fever been there done that

Las Vegas strippers pleasantly fat

More of this and plenty more of that

Love of money honey been there done that

 

Mister Grumblecock feels a pain in his chest

Hail Hitler or Trump by default he must be the best

Mister Grumblecock pops a mint in his mouth

More boring than hell the birds are all flying south

 

Cat scratch fever been there done that

Las Vegas strippers pleasantly fat

More of this and plenty more of that

Love of money honey been there done that

 

When the executive was a child he feared monsters under his bed

Now that’s he’s grown those terrors are lurking inside his head

When he looks in the mirror it’s clearer he needs a good shave

Mister Grumblecock doesn’t believe in Jesus money saves

 

Mister Grumblecock died in his hotel room

Bulging eyes no one dies like the harbinger of doom

The executives sent a generic card

A child of privilege who had life oh so hard

 

Cat scratch fever been there done that

Las Vegas strippers pleasantly fat

More of this and plenty more of that

Love of money honey been there done that

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I’ve Seen Answers

 I’ve Seen Answers (FAWM #5)

 

Fourth of July parade soldiers march in uniform             

Sky blue and clear but I feel the coming storm                

Black lives matter declares a homemade sign                  

A man selling Bibles claiming to be divine                      

 

I’ve seen answers in black and white

I’ve seen answers in the thick of the fight

The good Lord knows things ain’t right

I’ve seen answers I’ve seen the light

 

Buddy Holly was a jolly minstrel so profound

A child’s weeping sadly in the lost and found

Write a book of sin on things never been

I’ve walked the great beyond hidden somewhere between

 

I’ve seen answers in black and white

I’ve seen answers in the thick of the fight

The good Lord knows things ain’t right

I’ve seen answers I’ve seen the light

 

Oh please don’t weep for me mothers of Jerusalem

Why I cry it’s an outright lie us or them

Crack of the whip time slips to Judgement Day

You can cheat the entire world but you’re gonna pay

 

I’ve seen answers in black and white

I’ve seen answers in the thick of the fight

The good Lord knows things ain’t right

I’ve seen answers I’ve seen the light

 

Computers this computers that technology soars

Robot warriors aren’t afraid to march into wars

The plague may be vague but we don’t have a cure

Jesus rose from the dead of that I am sure

 

I’m forgetting Alexander don’t you dare say great

There’s heroes of love and champions of hate

The Minotaur is a real bore these days

The rat race taken the place of the endless maze

 

I’ve seen answers in black and white

I’ve seen answers in the thick of the fight

The good Lord knows things ain’t right

I’ve seen answers I’ve seen the light

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Good Trouble

Good Trouble (Dedicated To The Revolutionary Spirit Of Pete Seeger)

 FAWM #4

Listening to the folk songs of this stolen land                       

As politicians seek to secure total command                         

What a surprise the devil in disguise well I’ll be damned     

I don’t miss Bob Dylan at all but where’s The Band?                       

 

We will survive climbing up from the rubble

So happy to be alive it’s good trouble

I saw two rainbows God’s promise in double

Don’t you know life itself is good trouble

 

Two debaters both haters searching for a clue

Crying and lying denying Jesus’s words were true

Make America great again pre fourteen ninety-two

Sacrificial love the Holy Dove men of virtue

 

We will survive climbing up from the rubble

So happy to be alive it’s good trouble

I saw two rainbows God’s promise in double

Don’t you know life itself is good trouble

 

Teach me some chords I’ll write some words trying to rhyme

A time for war a time for peace living the greatest crime

Hey broken hearted poets now is the time to make sense

Man may be fragile but I smile in confidence

 

We will survive climbing up from the rubble

So happy to be alive it’s good trouble

I saw two rainbows God’s promise in double

Don’t you know life itself is good trouble

 

No trespassing our ego is surpassing the heights of the moon

We don’t know exactly when but then again we know it’s soon

Push the red button and welcome in a nuclear holocaust

We can no longer wait we must contemplate counting the cost

 

By the riverside singing slightly out of tune

Even tall trees don’t offer any shade at high noon

Turn the other cheek blessed are the meek yeah love is free

You ain’t on the left if you’re against anarchy

 

We will survive climbing up from the rubble

So happy to be alive it’s good trouble

I saw two rainbows God’s promise in double

Don’t you know life itself is good trouble 

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