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May 2017 · 128
Fake!
Stop ******* talking it!
Stop ******* walking it!
No one gives a **** if it's 'your dream'
To be 
on the stage
To be *******
front page
If you're not working it
You're not ****
If you're not trying
Then no one's buying it
Just cos you're pretty 
And you've got half a voice
You want the world to stop
And let you make your choice 
But trust me when I tell you
No one gives a ****
Live it night and day
If you wanna make a buck
Work it now before your looks just fade away
Work it baby
Cos today is your only day,
May 2017 · 140
The One Before 'The One'
I'm the one before 'the one'
The guy they **** before they meet with luck
I teach them to come 
Cos they couldn't before
Many had tried and failed
They'd ******* in every position,
Of their own volition 
But hadn't been able to get off
Then I turn up
And they're squirting like a drain
Life before me must have been such a frustrating pain.
I'm the one before 'the one'
The guy they try out for size
More than Meets the eyes
I'll teach them of the bard and dickens
I'll show them culture to make their pulses quicken
Give them the dark side and tie them down
Then show my nice side, soft as an eiderdown
I'm the one before 'the one'
Destined to be alone 
Watching old loves get wed
And wondering if this one might stay awhile longer before she leaves my bed.
May 2017 · 161
The Harshest Of Truths
Staring down the harshest of truths 
Trying not to blink
The thought of your leaving has been tearing my heart
So I've been trying my hardest not to think
So will you be the one who'll put me on my knees?
Or will you bring me to my feet?
Am I gonna spend another night crying, begging please?
Will i once more taste defeat?
Or are we gonna take this thing
And turn it into love?
You know how much I care
And i believe you love me too
But I'm plagued by doubt
Cos it's happened before
I just couldn't take it if it came from you
So tell me again 
That we're gonna be fine
Kiss away my fear
Tell me again 
As I pour you some wine
And I open the last can of beer.
May 2017 · 102
The act
It's not an act
It's organic
I'm not trying to make you love me
I don't give a flying ****
I'll do this somewhere else
Or I'll do it for myself
Don't kid yourself
You give a ****
Your *** is on a shelf
******* if you hate me now
it's cool for you if you should care
But I'll still sing to empty chairs and tables
If no ones sitting there.
Mar 2016 · 193
Untitled
'My train was early
your taxi was late
I wonder how  things would be now
If I'd not had the patience to wait.
If I'd just sent a message
Sorry but it's not me, it's you
I can't hang around
I have a lot to do
You'd have yelled and cried
I'd have said goodbye
You'd have begged me to come back
I may have turned around
And wiped your eyes
And held the love I felt for you
A little further back.
But I waited cos I'm soft  like that
I'd never let you down
I'd never let you ever feel
That love was lost not found

I didn't do it then
I wouldn't do it now

But it's passed us by, the chance for proof
Flown thru the window out of reach  across a smokey roof

My train was early
Your taxi was late
And  after all you've put me thru
I'm still so  glad
I had the  patience to wait.

I did it then

So I'll do it now'
Mar 2016 · 215
Untitled
8 minutes is how long the warmth of the takes to reach us
8 minutes to stop us dying in a frozen hell.
She doesn't know or care
She won't always be there
And without her
We'll be gone
And the chase for her goes on and on
You are 8 minutes from me now
8 minutes it would take me to be at by your side
But you don't know or care
So I'm here alone and cold

8 minutes from the warmth I need

A 1000 miles from the sleep  I need

And a lifetime way from the love I need.
Mar 2016 · 220
Untitled
When u wake up in the morning
About 5 am
And ur crying for no reason at all
Ur eyes are burning red with tears
As a dream u had comes floating back
And down once again ur gonna fall.
Then all day long u carry her
In pictures running thru ur head
Till late at night
U drunken drop back into ur lonely bed

This is what the blues looks like
This is how it feels
This is what it does to u
That's the card it deals.
This is what the blues looks like
This is what the blues looks like
This is what the blues looks like
This is what the blues looks like
Mar 2016 · 445
Xxxx
'My train was early
your taxi was late
I wonder how  things would be now
If I'd not had the patience to wait.
If I'd just sent a message
Sorry but it's not me, it's you
I can't hang around
I have a lot to do
You'd have yelled and cried
I'd have said goodbye
You'd have begged me to come back
I may have turned around
And wiped your eyes
And held the love I felt for you
A little further back.
But I waited cos I'm soft  like that
I'd never let you down
I'd never let you ever feel
That love was lost not found

I didn't do it then
I wouldn't do it now

But it's passed us by, the chance for proof
Flown thru the window out of reach  across a smokey roof

My train was early
Your taxi was late
And  after all you've put me thru
I'm still so  glad
I had the  patience to wait.

I did it then

So I'll do it now'
Oct 2015 · 234
Untitled
A ripped out slice of a soul
Casting shadows on the doubt of someone's love
A mind still keenly clings to the dream that was real
But became the nightmare  of an impenetrable loss.

Come 5am.
Memories bump and weave and vye for attention with the tears that never stop
With the ache that ebbs and flows like a tide that only goes out.
A self hate that questions rationale
And drinks its  venom from an unending cup.
This is what's left when love turns its back on love.
Then lies then hugs then lies again.
Open pits await the voyager who let's his weather eye wander and drift from the true prize that holds the anchor down
And gives a lonely man the solace of redemption.
Jan 2014 · 569
Holding my breath
'Holding my breath for you''

Time's not on my side
It's running away like a  thief in the night
But the smile on your face
And the warm of your eyes
Keeps telling me that I should stand and fight.

So here I am
Battered and bruised
But willing to go another round
If you stay in my corner
And don't count me out
I will make you believe that it's love
i have found.

So I'm holding my breath for you
I know in my heart cos it keeps running to you.
I'm not gonna let  you fall.
Hold out for us lover
And give it your  all
If your willing to save me
I'll save you right back
I'm holding my breath
I'm holding my breath
Im holding my breath for you.
'My train was early
your taxi was late
I wonder how  things would be now
If I'd not had the patience to wait.
If I'd just sent a message
Sorry but it's not me, it's you
I can't hang around
I have a lot to do
You'd have yelled and cried
I'd have said goodbye
You'd have begged me to come back
I may have turned around
And wiped your eyes
And held the love I felt for you
A little further back.
But I waited cos I'm soft  like that
I'd never let you down
I'd never let you ever feel
That love was lost not found

I didn't do it then
I wouldn't do it now

But it's passed us by, the chance for proof
Flown thru the window out of reach  across a smokey roof

My train was early
Your taxi was late
And  after all you've put me thru
I'm still so  glad
I had the  patience to wait.

I did it then

So I'll do it now'
Jan 2014 · 1.2k
Tolerated
The shadows of the railing
By the room I played last night.
The whistle of a siren
And the blood of a lost fight.
And the closed sign on the food store
Brokenwss window, crack of light
And the hurt that won't subside
won't u let me look inside?

And the come on look from a burnt out *****
And the words that split my side.
Everything  makes sense somehow
It's all that I expect
The tears I knew I'd always shed
The freight train singing in my head.
The rocks that turned a stranded heart
Into a sunken, flooded wreck.
Yet,
All of this is somewhat new,
Baby I never thought this would come from u,
Ur soul was clean and pure and.....

Jesus Christ am I so lame
That it snuck right up on me?

I who's every move was honed and practised,
1 and 2 and *******  63 !
Oh here's the rub, the wake up call.
I never knew that dame at all,
She let me think she needed love
And I gave my past, and then my love.
And when her need of me was done
And some other shmo became the one
The line was cut, connection frayed
Her single, final, vail displayed,
she naked, danced into the shade
So I could fall, into the sun
Not laughed at,
But........
Tolerated,

tolerated

Tolerated........

By everyone.

Thank you.

I'm here all week.

Try the soup.
Jan 2014 · 523
8 minutes
8 minutes is how long the warmth of the takes to reach us
8 minutes to stop us dying in a frozen hell.
She doesn't know or care
She won't always be there
And without her
We'll be gone
And the chase for her goes on and on
You are 8 minutes from me now
8 minutes it would take me to be at by your side
But you don't know or care
So I'm here alone and cold

8 minutes from the warmth I need

A 1000 miles from the sleep  I need

And a lifetime way from the love I need.
Jan 2014 · 689
5am
5am
When u wake up in the morning
About 5 am
And ur crying for no reason at all
Ur eyes are burning red with tears
As a dream u had comes floating back
And down once again ur gonna fall.
Then all day long u carry her
In pictures running thru ur head
Till late at night
U drunken drop back into ur lonely bed

This is what the blues looks like
This is how it feels
This is what it does to u
That's the card it deals.
This is what the blues looks like
This is what the blues looks like
This is what the blues looks like
This is what the blues looks like
Jan 2014 · 706
Another shot of love
'Another shot of love'

I've crossed the world a dozen times
By wing and wheel and wave
I've woken up in strange girl's beds
And fell asleep in caves

I've sung my songs in brothels
I've watched rich men leaving poor
I've taken virtue in my home town
And I've taken it in your's

Ya see
I'm the lonely troubadour
You don't need to know my name
I don't  need to know just why  I leave
Only that I came
In every place I get to
Whether from below or from above
I'll ask the batman 'kindly sir '
For another shot of love.

Give me one more chance at love
Before my time has passed
I still believe she'll come along
No need to wash my glass
And if  I  end my days alone
And a guitar's all I got
I'll be thankful for the life I led
And for another shot.
Jan 2014 · 509
She made me smile
'She made me smile'

She's back from somewhere
I ain't gonna ask the place
Cos it's non of my beeswax
It ain't left no marks on her sweet face

It's like time stood still from the day we met
She's older, wiser maybe and yet
Tho I know I've ripped the heart right out of me and carved these lines for all to see
She can still see the soul in me
That I haven't had chance to get to yet.

She could save me with a word if she had a mind to
She could turn it all around If her heart was set on me
I dare not ask
Or even pray.
All I know Is that today

She made me smile  
She made me smile
She made me  smile.

— The End —