David T Carratola

David T Carratola Jul 2015

Dust off these pages.
You know acceptance comes in stages.
It's not a wave, it is a stream that trickles up your spine and branches out between.
Your chest that's caving.
And all the anger you've been saving.
O today I am a canvas in your hallway going yellow in the sun.
And when you're done with me,
O set me out to dry on your apartment balcony.
And I'll coagulate and you'll watch colors crack on fabric
And you'll love what you create
And you'll know right then that you're.
You're capable of good.

http://meridianohio.bandcamp.com/track/yellowing
I just can't stop listening to this! so I thought I'd share it's lyrics.

David T Carratola Jun 2015

anything (song lyrics)

My desperate attempt to avoid being bored.

My shallow attention isn't the problem.

My exception is sleep, not because I'm lonely, or sad.

My mind finds no meaning, nothing worth my time.

So my time is worthless too.

I don't need to be happy, I don't need to be anything.

So anything will do.

But that wasn't enough for you.

I couldn't answer you then, and I sure as hell can't now.

But I know that your response would be just as cold as this stone.

My self-aware state of mind has grown rusty.

My tell tale signs were erased.

My exception is sleep, not because I'm lonely, or sad.

My mind finds no meaning, nothing worth my time.

So my time is worthless too.

I don't need to be happy, I don't need to be anything at all.

So anything will do.

But I've grown tired of speaking.

I don't notice any reason for it.

But I don't notice much at all.

David T Carratola Jun 2015

The Point Is People, A Monologue To Remind Myself:

The point is people.
although I'm run down from time to time.
I know there is no answer in some steeple,
some book.
And I'm sure I'm missing something like all the beautiful creatures out there.
But right now, with the amount of evil.
The point is people.
There is far too much to be done, so I'm not concerned with personal accomplishment, because they are repeatable, but to experience your smile your laugh. your dreams, your love! that is something I will not find anywhere else.

I don't know how long this movie is,
but I'm already late to the show and I can't be bothered to pick up the details I missed and distract someone else.
So just know, while I'm not bootlegging any of this, every time I think of you all of this will play across my screen.
And I can't think of anything else worth my time.

David T Carratola Jun 2015

Side A, Track 3

You call me from a payphone just to let me know.
You couldn't make it.
But it came as no surprise.

Maybe to your mother.
Because your father wouldn't die.
Without you by his side, he kept on suffering.

Because you couldn't for a night.

I know we're going to fight,
I just don't have it in me.

To tell you that I'm right.

Look out for the ghosts of your mistakes.
They'll take the shape and place of your happiest,
Happiness.

It's the end of a year I'd rather not ever hear from again.
So I left you this note on your favorite cassette,
Maybe you'll stop following these backwards trends.

Song Lyrics

David T Carratola May 2015

Unfortunately That's Life - by - The Ghost And The Grace

Most of my life has been performed upon a stage,
And every time an actor leaves they're quick to be replaced,
So all the understudies start assuming former names,
But overall it stays the same,

I hope that you will be the coda in my life,
A melody to sing that will return from time to time,
And even if I strain my voice on notes that are too high,
At least I gave it a try

I won't forget you, if your names cut from your face and glued
Over some new eyes, I know that it sounds kind of lonely but
Everything's going to be fine

I truly doubt we'll find the answer in a man,
Or reason from a choir up in heaven keeping tabs,
Cause even angels have to be confused by how we act,
You just keep coming back

There is a groove for every person that you've met,
Each track is on repeat and now and then a song will skip,
You'll try and move the needle to some new relationship,
But it won't sound that different,

I won't forget you, if your names cut from your face and glued
Over some new eyes, I know that it sounds kind of lonely but
Everything's going to be fine

I won't forget you, if your names cut from your face and glued
Over some new eyes, I know that it sounds kind of lonely but
I won't forget you, If your names cut from your face and glued
Over some new eyes, I know that it sounds kind of lonely but
Unfortunately, that's life.

This is not my own work. It was created by a musical artist I consider extremely talented.
http://theghostandthegrace.bandcamp.com/track/unfortunately-thats-life

David T Carratola May 2015

Directions

Are we who we thought we'd make it out to see?
Is this the crossing grounds?
That I've heard so much sound about?

Will we choose and never choose again?
Or will we loose and forever loose the chance?

Life seems so bleak laid out before us
constructed and deconstructed through a system that is,
Our legacy.

But whose to say,
What will come of us?

Direction, Direction, Direction.
But whose to say,
We need one...

David T Carratola May 2015

Qoute Me On This

Are you where you ought to be?

Because to me, its plain to see.

You're shorter than the stick you walk with.