Drunk again, on my own again,
without a friend in sight.
I learned to read just to pass the time,
St. Teresa she tells me:
"Be gentle to all and stem with yourself,"
and you will find the light.
But some of us see only in dark,
and we come alive at night.
Been trying to breathe, been trying to see
what William James told me:
"You can alter your life, if you alter your mind,"
my kaleidoscopic eyes-
and act as if you can make a difference
and "be not afraid of life."
But I've been running scared, darling all of the time,
life chews me up and it spits me out.
I'm tired of words, to see me through,
oh, I need someone tonight,
someone tonight.
Like Carl Rogers says, you gotta hang tough,
"I'm not perfect but I'm enough."
"What is personal, it is universal,"
if you just open up.
But if I should die, it would take a while
until someone beats the drum.
I flew so many miles and still,
and still, my sadness has won.
C
This is a song I wrote based around a poem I had written the night before and posted on here (
http://hellopoetry.com/poem/1806946/miles/) they both end on the same few lines but are very different otherwise. There is a recording of the song on this youtube link, 08.20 into the video (https://youtu.be/RZRPCtZ_ynw).