You smile in my face. Than cheat behind my back. The love I thought we
Had. Turned out to be. Just a front. Now I know this. As a fact. You stay
Away for two months. And I let you come on in. But in all that time.
Wonder with whom. And where you've been. My good old boys must
Be laughing. When I told them. That we're engaged. They're probably
Pondering the engagement . Is a feeble effort on my part.  Your soul and
Body I'm trying to save

My dearest friend. O how I miss you. If you were here now. These lips would want to kiss you. An embrace would be ecstasy. A dream made real. Holding your body. To me. My dearest friend. Please don't let this
Good loving end. I'll be just fine. If what we have. And hold.Stays mine.
My dearest friend. Now that I've tasted the honey's sweetness.Never
Let it end

You saw the love. That rested in me. Looked beyond my faults and saw
My need. Took time to invest. The treasure of my heart is freely given.
I'm taken in by your natural grace and charm. In a quite place far away
From the maddening crowd. We will both drink deeply from the  cup of
Love set before us. With tender and special feelings they will speak.
This is all for the time being. That I have to say. Cannot wait until the Night replaces the sun and you my dear. Come my way.

I'm holding out for the right love. One that will give peace of mind.
Don't need daily grieving. Leaving my troubled life of tears and past
Behind. And when you see me smiling. To Myself.You'll know that the
Right one has come .Happiness has taken me off the old merry-go- round
Thank God I held out for the right love. No more tears or doubt to be  Found. Kissing now each new day with sweet expectation. Have you seen
My seen my new glow or heard me holler with delight? Holding out for
The right love.Made a final escape. And writing this on the good news
Train Freedom train . Because I held out for the right love
For thrills me day and night.

Dreams are for those who sleep. Living and loving is for folks to keep.
Do you have any dreams . That I can make come true? Just let me be
Good to you.Never will I leave you or throw your faith down or
Or turn your happy smile upside down . To love you forever is all I
Can do. And walk in the sunshine of life with you

Bad boy blues.Get away from my door. Trouble trying to crawl.
Through my window. But I  keep it closed. So it can't get in. Found the
The girl that my eyes were searching for. To help me take care. Of love's
Business .That's what I was made for. Been looking all over for a love
That could be mine. All the time

Let your heart speak your voice. By making this man a choice.
As I draw near please  except me. With no doubt or drawing  back. In fear. My love will go beyond the bright lights. Last longer than just one
Solitary night. To treat and make you special.As a treasure with respect.
Beyond any measure. Just let your heart speak its voice

A song to inspire should have wings.And the words shouldn't say
The same old thing.You should smile like a new bride.On a honeymoon.
While singing off key . It's familiar tune. A song just isn't a song if it
Won't inspire.Or has no message to bring. Just words put down won't take you higher . And thrown together make a silly thing.A song should be the sun in a sad heart. On a cloudy day. It's like I said before. The words should have something to say.Whether sung by a singer old or New the words and tune should touch the target in you

You left her suddenly. As September as colored leaves started to fall.
Tears of hurt couldn't be blinked away' Once the pain had taken hold.
But after a time . She heard the future call. Some brief moments  her
Thoughts might embrace you.But looks to the coming years.  Inside  her
Rebuilding hope standing firm and tall. I was informed that you're
Wished well wherever that might be . She's learned to cry no more. In
The rain or coming Septembers.

I snap my fingers with glee. Each and every chance . Your love is so good
To me darling .It makes me want to dance.You got me dancing
To your love. Like a beautiful ray of sunshine coming down from
From heaven above.No more walking around lonely or in misery.
Scales have fallen from my eyes. And only happiness I see . Now no
Random chancing.I selected and chose you. And your love has me
Dancing.

Bright candles in windows at Christmas time. Glad greetings fill
The air to everyone you know. Smiling faces at this holiday season
Set weary hearts all aglow.Christmas time what sudden surprise
Awaits under the tall sparkling tree. An engagement ring or new pairs of
Socks a book of delicious candy a  short silk gown maybe dvd's
To make each receiver feel dandy. I for one wish Christmas time
Would last through the entire year. To erase all the bad news on tv
And in each newspaper. If we share love and happiness surely God
Will grant each one of us divine favor. Sitting in houses of peace. With more than enough natural love and plenty to eat.
Merry CHRISTMAS TO ONE AND ALL

Spent so much of my time in loving you.I thought everything between us
Was real but that turned out to be untrue. Know that's time to go forward
And not look back.Like a locomotive traveling down a one way track.
You didn't really need me or couldn't adore. But I feel deep down inside
I'll be just the person somebody else will be looking for. Not just
Another one to be shown to heartbreak's door
Thrown away love mama tried to tell me about it. I 'm a strong believer
Now and I used to doubt it . Soon will be ready to  let someone new
Into my life and  lock and bolt the door on the old thrown away love.

Deliver us from evil inside ourselves. From hating each other
Because we all have different colored skins white black yellow brown .
Hating does not make us know what we do. To harm and destroy
Humanity.It takes away our sanity. Let our peace together on this earth
Become a flower of many creeds and talents working together.To make our nation strong and united. Living out the true meaning of what makes Us American proud and valiant among all other nations of the world

I can remember as a male child playing with my lone toy car.On the floor
In a house where love was present coming from mama. Who could ask
For more? Much to young to know that politics would be a part of
Adult life . And become a lying fairy tale. People marching in
Washington streets for full freedom and equal rights. Single mothers
With fatherless children not sleeping at all many nights. Women shut out
The doors of equal pay.Gridlock a living monster on both politicial sides
That just won't go away. And the PRESIDENT with smooth words
And body language trying to shoo the problem away. Wants to sip
KENTUCKY bourbon with GOP speaker MITCH McConnel while
The ROME of our nation slowly burns. Is reason impossible?

I can hear the rain falling hard and fast outside my window. Rain coming
Down to water city sidewalks and streets. People pass with raised
Umbrellas rushing to work. Raindrops touch places where spring
Flowers lived before surrendering to death.Washing the city clean
Each second that it drops down asks no permission to do its  mission
Count on the rain with a steady beat to be around . And if you don't
Have to go anywhere just pull up the covers to your chin and know
The falling rain coming down is everybody's friend
Have a cup of warm tea on me.Or relax in a bubble bath and breath free

I watch with a number of others as the blind man RAY CHARLES
Is lead onto the stage.With dark glasses covering his eyes
Like black bandages.  Once seated at the piano his hands touch the keys
And with head thrown back and body moving from side to side
Lips open and sound comes rushing out like a train going through a
Tunnel of night or an escaping convict finally free
With jerking motions like one sitting on an emotional hot wire
Blown down in an unforgiving storm with WHAT I SAY GEORGIA
ON MY MIND I GOT A WOMAN WAY OVER TOWN THAT'S GOOD TO ME and listeners sit transfixed that so much talent
could come from one blind man to compose and sing the blues
From the blood and guts of hard times

When nobody's around she cries
The tears that during the day she had to hide
Love is beautiful when its right. But so deadly when its wrong.

Let my love answer your desire
And take care of the need within

I wish you warmth from winter's dark and cold.
Eternal youth to keep you from growing old. I wish the granted prayers
that are yours to keep. Dreams of me as you lie down to sleep. I wish you
Laughing children playing under the smiling sun and equal pay
For all  the hard work done.And sharing meals at gatherings with a
A varied collection of friends. Blessings  from everywhere rushing in
A joyful life while traveling around the bend.

Not long ago somebody said that the love we all know is dead.
Somebody said that loving someone forever dreams are gone.
I heard somebody say love is just a passing fancy. And nothing new.
After coming to love's defense in a lawyler's oratory tone
I stated boldly that lie was never true.Just hold up the looking glass
And behold a glance of me and you.

A chance to thrill to someone new. Getting older each day that comes
When their's really nothing you can do. The chance for love left with
With that last romance. Disappeared like sand in the hour glass.
Longing to hear someone whisper I love you. Loving to hear someone
Say I care. Before you leave here. Want someone to say you're needed
So much. And that they will always be right there.

Sadness thought that it had me. But your love came along
And grabbed me. Now fill me up until I overflow with love
Let us drink from the same cup in unity. Because I loved you
Before you knew just what love really was.

Never felt this way before. I never thought I could.In movies love is
Treated like a fairy tale.But I myself declare it's better than good. My
Head is on straight not walking into walls don't really need a net
To catch me before I fall. There is no way to start my day without thinking
Of you.There's  no one else who could make every longed for dream
Of mine come true.My head isn't soaring out in space. I only need your
Love to finish on time my race. Never felt this way before. It's been a long
Time since I had someone of my own to adore. Because I never felt this
This way before. I never thought I could

Lie down beside me. As your heart is beating fast. Both of us are wrapped
In silence. I want to make each second last. Whisper in the darkness
Sweet things my hearing longs to know. My beloved one don't be
Concerned we'll take each motion real slow.Lie down beside me .Let our
loving moments be a feast.Later on cuddled together as the dawn rises
Slowly upon the earth there will be time enough to sleep
As I've told you before each motion will be taken real slow
Let us take our fill of love until the duties of the day
Make us have to depart

Her soul was steeped in grief and howls of sadness poured
From her body after the policeman 's bullet ended the life of her only child born into the earth a male and all the green  young green trees
Had been cut down and lay still in death lost to life
Much like a bird in a big empty house with no escape banging
Against the walls that locked it away from freedom
Away from the sand and fog of a lone sea

Night rocks me to sleep with sweet dreams of you
God answered my wish for a lasting love and made the creation come true.All the loves of my past have disappeared now I'm traveling
Down the road to happiness pass all doubts fears whistling as I go
Toward new dreams and plans happy as a piano man
Reminding myself to never look back because just one longing glance
At what used to be could throw this man off track
Don't you realize that I'm stuck on you and will be hanging around for life and vow that I'll never turn back

Hurt brings out my tears that fall without a sound down my face
But who's to know there are a lot of us in goodbye town
And who's to know each day that you wake up behind the masked smile
How one really feels? When people look sincerely at you who"s
To know the real deal?Who"s to know that inside your heart is broken
And life is at  standstill  messthe hand that rested warm in your own
Is gone now and nobody on the plant will answer that sent out sos
Who"s to know getting through the day is an effort and food going down
Tastes like sand doubt takes you on free mind trips
But who"s to know why she left you high and dry
For that other man?

If only these hands could sculpt your pristine beauty in wax
So all the world would see in exact detail every curve and line
Just as God created it to be breathing life to its stillness
My house of wax of course would only contain statues of you
No one else would be allowed to touch  each formed part of
A creation from a long ago memory

Papa was never home, women he held in his arms were't his own
Papa did't like to do much thinking.His natural talents were
Gambling loving drinking .Mama I don't need you to tell me the truth
Papa was never home , the loving he did was always his own
And when he died did't even our dog a bone

It's time now for some more of my tears to start to fall.
Thought I had your good loving as all my own but I had nothing at all
As you're thrilling some one else its slowly killing me. Do right by me
Baby or pack each bag and leave.All I see now is the blues, get back your
Attention on me again its time to choose,sad notes playing in my heart
If tonight you decide to depart there'll be fond memories I won't restart
I'll close the door and seek a new start

I'll leave the light on for you and my heart and arms will be
Open wide. Turn down the covers and the lights real low
Or maybe we can love by the soft candle's glow
Make the night go by  nice and slow .Please know that inside
I'm waiting here and holding back each screaming sigh

The mocking bird sings a sweet song with an old fashioned cuban beat
He tells how I should love you to  knock my lady off her feet
Don't be surprised if he doesn't tell all of the other guys
I know that it must be true ,he wants me to give all of my love and sweet kisses to only you.He's never sad the mocking bird ,never see him mad
I know that it's the truth he wants me to give all my love and kisses to you
The mocking bird gave this man the word to always keep
My darling glad than went off to help somebody else
Before going to sleep

I try to move on but the pain lingers on deep inside
She has me living in the land of the broken hearted
Left the door of my soul open and sadness walked in
Where did my happiness run? Where did it go to hide?
Face lonliness now and kissed goodbye all of my dreams
Nothing excites me any more so I guess its the right time
To end up in the land of the broken hearted
Taking my emotions to be repaired it will take some time
To come back but I'm here because love didn't really care

Impossible that's what they said of me and you .Impossible now we
We are a happy two.It's so wonderful to know that you're really all mine
Like the powerful roar of yonder sea or the tune of a violin melody
Of sweet love, there's nothing that can shake or break us or stop
Us from doing our thing.We're just impossible  all the world will see
Impossible a smiling loving relationship to be . It's so wonderful to
Know that you're really mine

My beloved has accepted me for who and what I am
There's no pretense hidden within.No unknown thing open to question
Thoughts have come forth out of this inner being freely
My beloved has let me taste the sweet nector  of each breast
To still this manly longing of hunger and need that runs through
My veins but reaches  out softly to my beloved
With eyes the color of desire

Have a little faith pass it all around  as you go,
Hand out a smile it will make someone's day just so.
Don't walk around with knifes of hate in your eyes.
Do a  deed of kindness for a stranger it will be a big surprise
Have a little faith in your fellow man. Change each bad habit
And attitude dig down deep inside people.I know that you can
Stop waiting turn your own world upside down
Start out with love it really works better than a face with
A daily frown just have a little faith

People daily from death are falling when life is steady calling
Mother where is your child? Is she in the street unprotected
And running wild?If you get to heaven before I do
Tell my Daddy and Mama that my earthly love down here
For them was true that I make it safely through each day because
They taught me how to pray I see people struggling hard to make it
Each and every day.They want things to get better and find a better way
We need to make a shift while there is yet time
Free the the worries and troubles from each mind
While spreading around some joy
We need to give each other some natural ease
And each day while living down here seek out peace

You'd better stop playing the devil's game
Before it turns around on you.Out in the street with all the wrong crowd
When your looks start to fade and the figure spreads
And the phone no longer rings
Sleepless lonely nights spent crying out loud
I'm not like the other men you've known in the past
Who want a race to your bed I'm the marrying kind
And the love of a good woman remains in my head
Dad and others I've confided in say I should walk away now
Because that life of confusion is just like quicksand will
Make a devil's player end up all alone
The more you play the faster you sink
Your head is so messed up how can you think?
Please stop playing the game is my advise before the game
And the devil turn around on you

When I have my music feel so very light and free
Worry or its cousin trouble can't get a hold on me
Nodding my head to the funky beat sadness will have to excuse
My ignoring you while I jam and tap my feet
Music is around the world and its signiture is everywhere
Saw an old man with blue headphones on lost to the music
Getting down in a rolling wheelchair
Youth rapping on the street with earbuds  alone they don't really care
I close my eyes and I think I can hear notes floating everywhere

I love you far beyond myself until the last sand of time is gone
Daily my contract of faithfulness is renewed
Along with my compassionate love for you which is not
An indulgence. Hold me close within the heart
When weariness overtakes you rest upon my shoulder
As my head later would rest upon the pillow of your breast
Who could love you more than I? Let me catch those falling tears
In the cups of these two hands

She had a face that looked wrinkled by old age and poverty
In a red coat as footsteps took her slowly to a seat
On the north bound trolley the sun wasn't even warm
That  OCTOBER day as i glanced down at her old worn sneakers
With red socks it seemed time like the train had passed her

I confess that it was love from the start
Now that you're gone forever from my life
What do I tell my heart?what do I tell it with each lonely beat in the night? and during the daylight there is just no peace
Tears flood from my eyes when out in the street trying
To hold back each sob from inside this sadness
I can no longer hide.Its been said in life that what will be will be
But why did this terrible thing have to happen to me?

I was born in a time when life made more sense
People were not worried how they would pay the rent
We expected change of our elected ones
But not much change did come
I was born not far from a river one running wild and free
Keep wondering why certain dreams inside keep dying on me
We expected change of our elected ones
But change did not surely come
I see people go to the movies whenever in town
But if you don't have any money they won't let you hang around
When my needy hand is out to someone
Passing on the street heads remain with eyes ahead
They want you to fall down on your knees
Living is sometimes  not easy and lack makes a grown man cry
Guess I'll have the final answer to all my questions
In that bright city in the sky

A woman who is equal parts playful and pensive
Always romantic and loving filled with vibrancy and casual cool
In a moody changing World.

My eyes take in your unparalled verdant beauty
which truly forms a refined vision of quiet style and grace
With simplicity in natural born richness .Love flowing so fully
Makes a man never want to get your love or refined vision
Out of his system just when I thought love was a closed chapter
Your refined vision stepped in

Our love is a shelter from the clamor of an intrusive world
With joyful touches of peace and silent beauty as well
We can do exciting things in the midst of all the calm

The first time I saw your face was like the stars fell
From the sky.The EARTH itself seemed to move
When I kissed the soft rose petals of your lips my love
I saw natural beauty in your face and eyes.
Would have fought off an army with a single sword for you.
And prepare to bravely die.would have been willing to go through
The dark woods all by myself with no possible direction
More concerned about your personal welfare
Than my own protection

There's no turning back because I love you.Get such pleasure in seeing
That smile never will desire to place someone else above you
There's no turning back and why would  this man want too
Quite simply hooked on the the love we share .
That's from my point of view. There;s no turning back
Because I choose to be madly in love with you

Love can turn around on you. Happiness is not always renewed
Some precious things one can never keep
Courage is never for the weak. Love can turn around on you
I've been told when I've wanted to hold on to it
When gray and old. Have its mark deep down in my soul
If its blessed you hold on to the glow. Love can turn around on you
I know

Dreams are falling all around
Don't want mine crashing to the ground so I'll gather them up
And run away while sunshine is here lighting the way
Dreams are falling o so fast . I ask the question can anyone's dream last?
My eyes see that dreams are falling