Ready or not here he comes
Best you batten down the hatches
Unless you were one of the smart ones to run
Like a crazed hound in July chasing rabbits

Alright, alright, alright
As you turn and face the wind
Open the door to a Category 4
And let Dorian come screaming in

Oh me, oh my, oh my, oh me
Is that Grandma in the yard below
Hanging tight with all her might to the clothes line
With her cat Skeeters wrap around her big toe

This is getting rather exciting
As I see trees by the dozen crack in half
With my Boy Scout skills I might need to later build
A family size raft including the cat if there anything left

But for now we'll all hunker down
Try and stay away from the windows
And all the flying debris that I decided to leave
In the yard scattered amongst the plastic Flamingos

I'm here wondering at this very moment
Which of the two could be worse
The fate of being blown away by a hurricane
Or eaten by a gator face first

Still you've got to love living in Florida
With 20 foot waves crashing to shore
As I step outside to grab that branch floating by
I think I need to start whittling some oars

Would you think differently of me
Would your eyes only for him beg you to see
Someone that's as lowly as me

If I wrote for you a poem

Would you dare to steal a glance my way
Would you listen intently to what I had to say
Would the beat of your heart echo my way

If I wrote for you a poem

Would your night and daydreams be only of me
Let me look in your eyes and dive in where it's deep
Would you do all of this simply for me

If I wrote for you a poem

Would you tell that other guy goodbye
Would you explain to him the main reason why
Would you turn around with a sly smile

If I wrote for you a poem

Would it forever change your direction in life
The way I would like it to change mine
If the answer is yes, I'll start now on the rhyme

Cause I'd love to write for you that poem

This I'm sure most of you know
Cause it's so hard to hide
That my beautiful Cell Phone and I
Have been dating quite some time

It all started off innocent enough
First acquaintances, then close friends
But quickly enough it turned into love
When I asked her to move in

You always see us out to dinner
Even late-night movie shows
In line together we stand holding hands
Me being too afraid to let her go

She's wonderful at conversation
No matter talk or text
She can get my heart to racing
When I see her light up where she sits

With others, I can't be bothered
Outside of this relationship
She's like a powerful drug that I can't get enough
And really have no desire to quit

She's now asleep soundly beside me
Soon to wake up raring to go
Life's not been the same since I gave my soul away
When I started dating my Cell Phone

My mind never thought
Or ever crossed
The dim lit idea
Of me growing old

Until I met you
Those thoughts never knew
To cling to that thought
Of this being true

All I'd ever known
Was being alone
Now I can't wait to be
With you growing old

In mid-June the moon
Took off from the sky
You could hear it sing as it sprouted wings
Then taught itself to fly

Over time it lost the will to light
The darkened side of the world
Topsy turvy in a hurry
Away it twisted as it twirled

It winked a knowing eye at Earth
Blew the Sun a kiss
Telling them both then and there
It certainly would not miss

The crazy side of this cheezy life
Flapping its feathered wings
Never to be seen again
As the sky never did come to an end

Every twist and turn the moon took
It made itself a friend for life
With planets ahead and stars to be met
Colorful Cosmos filling the sky

Visiting spaced out wonders
Finally feeling free
Then woke with a start to a Bowie heart
As it all was a moonage daydream

It all happened so fast leaving it aghast
And was over way too soon
Sometime in mid-June
This dream that held the moon

She's an actress
When it comes to love
Plays it out in black and white
Aren't all actors paid to lie

She puts her
Frosted makeup on
Then practices her lines
She could recite them blind

She's always up
On the big screen
When she's in a crowd
Acting out in smile

She'll have you
Begging her for more
That's just the way it goes
As the credits roll

Cause she's an actress
When it comes to love
Ask her for her autograph
But that is all you'll ever get

Looking down on the crash site
The very spot where we fight
Perfecting on the crash and burn
Lessons given yet seldom learned

Daily sifting through rubble
In search of the once happy couple
The one that held us both so tight
Before we took this nose dive

Ruined lives in mid-flight
Looking down on the crash site
Both of us taking turns
Perfecting on the crash and burn

there are those forever lonely
but are they ever truly alone
inside a crowd, they never stand out
where few can tell and less even know

spending their life on a burner
to the left, far in the back
not a page-turner, slightly above a murmur
forgotten soon after they're met

living a life out that's lonely
can be a hard sell on the soul
with the question raised, if only one day
lonely would let itself go

Bored out of my gourd
With nothing going on
So I thought I'd take the time
To write some thoughts in poem

And mostly what pitter-pattered
Inside this hardened head
Were some things that you could do
When you find that you are dead

If you ask me you could be
The perfect sign holder
No matter what the weather
Be it warmer, be it colder

Plus they wouldn't have to pay
You all that much at all
Just come outside every couple weeks
And kindly dust you off

Maybe a babysitter
For unruly kids
As a reminder to behave
Or they'll end up like this

******* a microphone
And take orders at a drive through
You can't do any worse than the living
Who don't seem to have a clue

Or a parking lot valet
Might just be the thing
I'll get back with you on that
I'm still working out the kinks

When there's a numbing in your noggin
And you've no clue of what to do
Thinking of things inside your head
that you can do while your dead
Could be just the thing that will pull you through

When I look real hard what I see
Is a world that's in cahoots
With that worst that's inside you and me
That we've carelessly let loose

If we had clearly seen it coming
Would we have tried to stop the flow
Or continue to sit, playing ignorant
On the thrown of do not know

Instead of being hateful and hurtful
With no tender thought of love
Can we not try and be more merciful
To those that don't get enough

It's so easy to let the worst escape
From the dark recesses of the mind
Fanning the constant flames of hate
With those who think in kind

Realizing there's a problem
And that we're all to blame
Is going to take every single one of us
To set this record straight

So when we look real hard we'll see
We're not all in cahoots
With the worst inside of you and me
In everything we do

We need to learn to love each other
With the time that we have left
Calling each other sister and brother
And accept the differences

From the moment that we met
There never was a doubt
You looked to me like forever
So I followed you around

And as I got to know you
You never proved me wrong
All you do is living proof
As we move along

On this forever journey
Where the years have all lost count
But that doesn't have me worried
I'll take all that I'm allowed

If the center piece gets tattered
And the edges all but torn
All that really matters
Is we both have held on strong

If wrong was right
Then I'd be right
Mostly every time

If do or die
Was the way to live
Then I'd be doing fine

If problems would
All disappear
Blink and they go missing

If answers came
In sheets of gold
I could not afford to listen

If what I said
And what I did
Were one and the same

Who am I
Trying to kid
It'll never go down that way

Because right is right
And wrong is wrong
Proudly on display

So get a clue
Not as I do
And certainly not as I say

Thinking back to yesterday
The haves, have-nots, the giveaways
The hope we had I'd hoped to face
Looking back on happy days
And how they took a sudden change
Bitter now the way we taste

When you killed the clown in me
****** the joy right out of me
Took pleasure in the first degree
When you killed the clown in me

No evidence was left behind
Of the time we had a life
Your sharpened tools cut like a knife
You bent the rules you spent your dime
You changed my fate with your change of mind

When you killed the clown in me
****** the joy right out of me
Took pleasure in the first degree
When you killed the clown in me

Keep your hands out of my head
Your sweaty palms to yourself instead
If I want ideas I'll consult myself
I'll think real hard till I figure it out

This mind is not on the party line
With the ups and downs it's done it's time
The starts and stops, dings and dips
So keep your hands out of it

Keep your fingers from tickling
The thoughts inside my cranium
From what's been seen to what's been said
From a whole lot of nothing in what little is left

From heavy-handed, as light as you please
My brain can't stand when it's being squeezed
Above a whisper it's no secret kept
Keep your hands out of my head

For being there through thick and thin
For holding out on giving

For softening up my hardened times
Being the crease of love on the face of life

For always being there to care
In a world that wouldn't dare

For being the path running straight
The perfect ending to the day

For your bright shining ray of hope
At the end of my twisted rope

For being the one that always counts
When my number's running out

For being the one place that I
Find comfort when I need to hide

For being the arms opening
When the world is closing in

For being the shallow end for me
When I dive in too deep

For being there in all I do
In all that I put myself through

Thank you

Are we not all cannibals
Tearing each other limb from limb
Where the damage we do far out weighs the cost
Me against you, us against them

Are we now all in a war of words
Collateral damage along the way
Nevermind the facts, mangle the truth
Shooting from the hip with shots of hearsay

Have we lost our grip on kindness
Increasingly giving our souls away
Ignorance of this is all but bliss
The thought of revenge is the thought of the day

Are we now all mere animals
Eager to fight ready to bite
Our nature being the only law
Turn a blind eye, sign of the times

Are we not all ourselves at fault
Experts at placing on each other the blame
Excuses are made whenever we're caught
Cannibals above all when given a name

Adam raised a Cain
Who then killed Able
Who wasn't able
To combat the hatred
Cause it was something
He'd never seen
As hatred then
Only grew on trees

God had to flood
The world with tears
For justice to be done
In the early years
Noah's remanent
Left on the land
While all the rest
Drowned in the sin of man

Moses came
And Moses saw
The hand of God
Hand him the law
Ten to be precise
At His command
To curb the likes
Of this sinful man

Jesus came along
For one and all
Gave his life
On a wooden cross
Sacrificed
For you and me
Where love instead of hate
That day
Grew on that tree

in this rest and relax
the little time that we have
emoting life in a forward move
monday comes one day too soon

with clear memories kept
spilling harshly from our laps
far too fast to catch what we lose
monday comes one day too soon

grabbing at the last days straw
not wanting to let one iota go
from what we'd done to the planned to do
monday comes one day too soon

weekend time is the fastest of rides
minutes wave to seconds pulled out by the tide
no control on the speed that it moves
monday comes one day too soon

If life was perfect
In every way
We'd be bored right out of our gourds
With nothing to complain

No watches to tick away
That you're running late
Or friends who have the need to ask
If everything's okay

No difference to the day
With every day the same
If every day the new day makes
Is perfect in every way

Soon enough though we would find
That not one soul would die
Leaving no alibi
For escaping of this life

With no more sickness
No scraping of the knee
As God is my witness
I think back to boring

Although we could eat all that we want
And not gain unwanted pounds
Running Broccoli and Brussel sprouts
Straight out of every town

There would be no more greed
Or advice given free
No more sympathy
Would find itself in need

What would we find to do
In a world perfectly tuned
If we had nothing to gain
And even less to lose

She often costs more than she's worth
Yet other times the greatest show on earth

She rides me constantly when I do wrong
Then plays up to me like a carnival song

You never know where her mood will swing
She'll close up shop and say it's time to leave

Other times she likes to clown around
With the biggest of smiles that lights up the town

I love her so I must confess
Though I never know what's coming next

She has certainly been a roller coaster ride
A house of mirrors with no one more confused than I

Keeps me laughing and guessing wherever we are
My girlfriend the amusement park..

Just when I think I've seen it
All throughout this  land
They went and upped the anti
On the classic can of Spam

Those with the higher power
The ones that run the show
The Spam men of the hour
In a bunker buried way down low

Have added different flavors
To this meat of mystery
From Teriyaki to Tocino
That's bacon to those who don't speak Philippine

They heat it up with Jalapeno
Helps to liven up the slime
Those bunker boys as they're fondly known
Have really out done themselves this time

Aloha from Hawaii?
Imagine Spam in a Hula skirt
As they pull out the Leis and go all the way
Adding pineapple to those Spam burps

Wait a minute!

Now they have pumpkin in the can of Spam
To spice up the feeling of Fall
Those that don't see Spam as a delicacy
Might be at a loss

Exciting rumors even have it
They're in talks with Oreo
There's no place in this universe
That a good slice of spam won't go

The only thing they need to work on
Is the dipping in the milk
They have yet to solve the problem
Of the massive oil spill

Yes they've taken what the rest of us
Never thought could be improved
Just goes to show what ingenuity
And a touch of crazy genius can do

So don't knock it till you try it
And try it if you must
But remember my friend always save the lid
For afterwards scraping of the tongue

She squeezes me like a lemon
In her hurry and her haste
Which only makes me sour
In the heat of summer days
If she would only add the sugar
Teaspoon at a time to taste
Pour me into a glass unused
And then ask me to stay

And when the time does come

Where I lose my very thoughts

Right before the last rung

On the verge of fall

When all that I have left to grab

Is this simple plea

With what little time I have left

Throw your arms round me

Then kindly whisper in my ear

As you hold me tight

At that point all I need to hear

Is it will be alright

She's the girl who whispers tomorrow
Leaving behind the thoughts of today
Pain, despair, heartache, and sorrow
That's where she'll leave them all lay

She's the girl whose taken misfortune
And held it tight in her hand
Hears the stories told in the shadows
Along with the whispers of men

She's the girl who breaks from the moment
Unraveling all of life's strings
Retrieving with whispers unspoken
Yesterdays left behind dreams

If I had just paid more attention
If I had chosen my words just right
Perhaps if I had listened
Then she'd still be alive

We all know of the old saying
We're busy in this life
Moving this and that direction
Trying our best at holding tight

Where concern we have for others
Has all but lost its way
We know it's here among us
But not sure how long the stay

We've become a closed-off culture
Of I, me, and mostly mine
It's not that we don't really care
It's just that we don't have the time

Which can come back in force to haunt you
If not watched carefully
Need I be the one to remind you
It's happened to the likes of me

Which has me focused on the past
Reliving my mistakes
Holding onto my regrets
I'm sure will never fade away

My only hope is that this lesson
Can save others from the pain
If you see someone in trouble
Find something to say
Before it is too late...

As I stare into the mirror
It rudely stares back at me
There are wrinkles and spots enough to connect the dots
Where smooth skin used to be

Which got my mind a-twirling
Past its normal rate of speed
If you look hard you'll find this wasn't overnight
It came on gradually

Which had me deeply thinking
Of the possibility
Of an alien abduction
That completely wiped my memory

Where all this time I've been missing
I've been light-years lost in space
Here I am just guessing
But it would explain this face

And why I don't remember
Over half my age
My memory was ****** from me
By little green men from Outerspace

And I just got back from Planet "X"
Where they did dastardly deeds on me
Before dropping me off in front of this mirror
That keeps staring rudely back at me

fragile and frail
souls on the mend
sewed at a tender young age
with gossamer thread

winds can blow hard
the way winds will do
causing the thread
to sometimes come loose

fragile and frail
all that they have
a life pattern sewn
with gossamer thread

you take me
haphazardly
treat me
so badly
do you
even know me
can't you see...

i'm your broken heart

you take me
for granted
is that how
you planned it
love in
demand, it
understands that...

i'm your broken heart

you take me
like i'm free
not knowing
how costly
the price of
love can be
hold me...

i'm your broken heart

Outer Space
On a cosmic pickle
At the speed of Dill
Makes my tonsils tickle

Whistling
Star struck tunes
Powered by
Sonic pickle juice

What's a spaced-out cowboy
Supposed to do
In a bucking galaxy
Pickle groove

Riding high
On a cosmic pickle
At the speed of Dill
Makes me giggle

the more we look
the more we see
i look like you
you look like me

the less we tend
to disagree
on the little things
that are bothering

the more we talk
and get along
the more is right
the less is wrong

the more we love
the less we hate
we more or less
will find a way

the more we hold
each other up
the less chance of
coming undone

the more we look
the more we see
we more or less
will all agree

that i'm like you
and you're like me
all one big happy
family

She grew up too fast for her own good
Much too fast for the times
With a wink and a nod, it was understood
By those, she would often pass by

Some said she was an angel
Others a devil in disguise
Depends on her mood at the time that you
Catch her on which side in mid-flight

She was born to a soft loving couple
Who gave her all she ever asked
Which goes to show what most of us know
She'll take it all till there's nothing left

Sometimes misplaces the wings that she wears
But that doesn't keep her head out of the sky
With the breeze in her hair blowing her beyond daily cares
Who even needs wings to fly

She'll make you into a believer
Then leave you beyond a shadow of doubt
Digging the hole she put you in even deeper
Until you find there's no way out

Like I said before I understood
Or even came up with one line
She grew up too fast for her own good
And much to fast for mine

Maybe it's you
Maybe it's me
Maybe it's both of us

Maybe it's true
Or make believe
Maybe it's what we've become

Maybe it's that
Maybe it's this
Maybe it's both of them

Maybe it's fact
But then again
Maybe it's just a whim

Maybe it's here
Maybe it's there
It may already be gone

Maybe steer clear
Of those who don't care
Maybe leave them alone

Because maybe it's me
Maybe it's you
I'm thinking it's both of us

I tend to believe
That maybe it's true
Maybe it's what we've become

There are Killer Bees after you and me
With the Swine Flu nothing to sneeze about
I've also heard it's in the birds
So beware of odd tweeting sounds

The cows are kept just this side of mad
Which is a funny name for a disease
They must be running out of names no doubt
To try and frighten you and me

The storms are at the door they continually warn
Knocking harder than years gone past
Hoping we forget they're more often than not, not correct
When it comes to their latest highly educated guess

And don't forget the spies with their wandering eyes
Are peeking via phone and internet
Where the powers that be fill the jobs not complete
Until we're all shaking in our boots where we stand

Being far from calm with all the goings-on
Waiting to hear what's coming next
As they spin the dial on what's rolling our way down the pipe
Until we're all completely over the edge

We seem to have a problem
No solution close at hand
See them as you call them
With the cans and no we can't

Daily searching for the answer
Questions are all we ever find
Over there as well as over here
No end in sight, it's worldwide

It's easier to place the blame
Follow the beat of society
Losing ourselves along the way
Don't look at me as my brother's keep

The seed is sown, the hour's late
No way to stop the times
Breathe in breathe out, exacerbate
The match will strike, it's worldwide

A root that grows deep leaves scars
When watered with bitter rain
Collected in the hearts cistern
Fertilized all too often with mans hate

It's plain to see it's the same coin
Same impression on both sides
In it all there is a lesson
No end in sight, it's worldwide

I sometimes think about the 'if only'
And dream about the 'what might have been'
What does all this have to show me
Am I not happy with the place I'm in

All those years of reckless living
Would I have lived any differently
They say that hindsight is 20/20
Why can't I see what's front of me

I'm trying hard for the 'here and now'
To live what's 'past is past'
To count each and every blessing
Being thankful for everything I have

Why is man never satisfied
Always wanting so much more
Not taking up their lot in life
Looking for a bigger score

Today is going to be 'one of these days'
Of the 'When my ship comes in'
I can stand right where I'm at and say
'I am where I should of been'

It's all but skin and bone
That keeps me in this shape
And my mind alone
That gives this heart away

Eyes of blue and gold
That wander to and fro
Where my feet will go
I often do not know

My hands will say hey in a wave
On any given day
And the things that they make
They gladly give away

It's all too clear
What my ears will hear
My eyes I fear
Shed out in tears

And all of this
In case you don't know
Connects in bliss
With skin and bone

When times get hard
When times get tough
When I feel I've had
More than enough

I try and think
Of the simple things
And the joy in life
That they bring

Like the upward crease
in a baby's smile

Or the feeling you get
after the extra mile

The fluttered flight
of a butterfly

The erratic beauty
that plays across the sky

The sun in both
the rise and set

The heart of a child
in its innocense

A love that has
dug in deep

A father that's good
at listening

A shower in
the month of May

The glowing shimmer
of a mountains lake

A bride and groom
the moment that

They say I do
to the life they'll live

Or the joy that's found
in a new birth

That makes it all
for all it's worth

When times get hard
When times get rough
When I feel I've had
More than enough

These are just
A few of the things
I think about
For the joy they bring

We live in a world of clocks
That spins in tics and twists in tocks
Throwing time a little off
In mid-flight or in mid-crawl

Time does not stay the same
Wanders aimlessly along its way
A spiteful child throughout the day
Will not sit still, tends to run away

This world of clocks is in keeping
With its spinning face and loud ticking
Wondering what these times mean
In its scope of self in all these things

Showing time for what it is
The very worst in secrets kept
Face to face in lines and cracks
Only stopping long enough for the time of death

This world of clocks is speeding up
While most of us are out to lunch
If I had to guess, call it a hunch
This date in time we're going dutch

For this time of day it'll make us pay
Early on or running late
Where tic and toc will have its say
This world of clocks that we have made

I've got an idea
I'm pretty sure will work
Let's all pitch in together
And ruin everything we touch

We'll start off quite haphazardly
With the world we live in
Taking to task our best to trash
The air, the sea, the land

We'll take what nature's given us
In the finest we could eat
Then add chemicals at intervals
Nah, just pour it in quickly

We'll all choose sides to live by
And base it all on love
Then learn to hate those in our way
That do not think like us

We'll ruin our relationships
With technology of the day
Doing all we can with phone in hand
Instead of dealing face to face

We'll start murdering the innocent
And call it all a choice
It's much easier to do away with them
When they don't have a voice

We'll pick up guns and call it fun
Then start shooting everyone
Then complain whose to blame
Till again nothing gets done

We'll even give it a shot tossing in our lot
Being our own gods
Pull moral compass out point it due South
As we all get lost

Of course it's just an idea
Of ruining everything we touch
As long as we start with what we're good at
What could possibly go wrong

We're a people with a purpose
Daily walking the fine line
Whether or not we know it
We're all heading towards the light

The inner clock says time is of the essence
With no button for rewind
You would be right if you were guessing
That we're a people running out of time

Life can be a gem in living
Though not always a diamond mine
Doesn't mean that you can't win it
And return the favor in kind

Tic Toc, Tic Toc, can you feel it
The itch of do or die
Hard knocks in the healing
We're a people running out of time

You could be in the shade or one step away
From the moment of your time
If you think that you can't now is your chance
To lay it out on the line

Reality plays the game of ***** dealing
You can do your best to try and hide
But at times there's no way of concealing
We're a people running out of time

I'm so tired and weary
In the shadow of these days
Where we all feel we're onto something
As the soul of man slips away

We all feel we're right
With right long left behind
Still not changing the fact that
We try and change each other's minds

I'm so weary and I'm tired
Of this heated atmosphere
With hatred over here
And the anger over there

We all feel we're justified
With righteous judgement by our side
To prove that we are right
We will certainly not be denied

I'm so tired and weary
Stuck inside this mire
Where you're welcome to your opinion
As long as it matches up with mine

We're all reaching for the brass ring
At the end of this crazy ride
Where the only thing that we'll find
Is we're weary and we're tired

You might just ask
what's the difference
Between the heart
and the head
With one we think
while the other one beats
Both contemplating what's next
While thoughts
are so often fleeting
Here one minute
gone the next
The heart never falters
at the foot of love's alter
That's the difference
between the heart
and the head

I don't need you
In case you haven't noticed
Yes it's true
To bring this all in motion
If you've no clue
In this Saga on going
It's nothing new
Courageously undaunting

If there ever was a doubt
I can stick it to myself

So hold tight
Here comes another round
With all my might
Beat myself up downtown
Do or die
Not hard to figure out
I can not lie
Don't pity me the sound

If there ever was a doubt
I can stick it to myself

I can be late
When turning clues by chance
Don't hesitate
I've come back with much less
Call it a day
This day of circumstance
I give away
More than I've ever had

If there ever was a doubt
I can stick it to myself

Life...

I meant to pick you up
Instead I put you down
Now I'm here without much luck
Inside the Lost & Found

I dropped you on the road
Lost you along the way
I really miss you life
Is what I want to say

Life...

I treated you like a game
That I played recklessly
If I could give it a name
It would be "Only Think Of Me"

I threw you in the mix
Into the thick of things
To late now I've found out
How much life is meant for living

Life...

I think of what we could have had
A seamless harmony
Instead it all went bad
All because of me

I shoulder all the blame
The pain I put you through
If I had known it'd go down this way
I would have taken better care of you

Do you remember when
I was in your heart
When I was the one
You always thought about
And when you had that thought
It brought to you a warmth
When I was the one
That was in your heart

Do you remember then
That I would cross your mind
Not only once or twice
But mostly all the time
When you searched for that wanting need
I would be the sign
To the love that you would find
When I would cross your mind

Cause I remember when
You were in my heart
I think about it still
I think that you still are
More often now I find
All these tell-tell signs
Of you warming up my heart
Of you coming cross my mind

How we ever going to set things right
If we never ever find the time
To try and cross that forbidden line
Between the left, between the right

How we ever going to stop the hate
How can love ever have it's say
Believe you me, we will rue the day
When friends to those we did not make

How we ever going to survive
When we hold no value to a life
Scared of the bark but not the bite
Are we to numb and dumb to see the signs

How we ever going to make it past
How we ever going to learn to laugh
At what we did, at what they said
Not take it all so serious

How we ever going to change a mind
If all we ever do is fight
Now or never seems to be the time
How we ever going to set things right

Will you have the patience
The sympathy
For the old man in me
I one day will be

The needed compassion
Amount of time
When I've come to the end of the line
Of my frame of mind

Can we share in a smile
Can you help me to laugh
Knowing it's the little that counts
When there isn't much left

Can you point me the way
When my mind wanders off
Hold my hand back to the path
Where I don't feel so lost

Can you find the respect
The dignity
The years the gray has taken away
And give some back to me

When it's all said and done
When all done has been said
Will you be by my side the day that I die
And not leave me for dead

Some people find the pool of love
And decided to dive right in
Before testing the temperature
To see if it's warm enough to swim

Some people lather themselves up
Just to lay out in the sun
As they watch all the others frolic
Wishing they could join in on the fun

Some pools are rather murky
So you must keep and eye on the sharks
Shallow or deep they'll take you off at the knees
For a closer advantage to tear out your heart

If you step out of the pool
After a swim in the deep end
Could you play the part of a wading fool
And jump right back in again

With no life guard on duty
To blow the whistle when you've had enough
You best be careful when you swim
In the pool of love

We fight and we fuss
We fuss and we fight
We all draw straws
In the choosing of sides

We fuss and we fight
We fight and we fuss
We say that they're wrong
They say that about us

We fight and we fuss
We fuss and we fight
Can both sides be wrong
In thinking they're right

We fuss and we fight
We fight and we fuss
Can we stop long enough
To see what's happened to us