Love was just a brief pause
Like holding in your in your breath
A comma at the end of the love sentence
Like looking at the person next to you
Seeing their back going out the goodbye door
The green light of moving along is on
And we transform both of us into strangers again
Departure I dislike the same as you

Don't you know a good love is hard to find
You'll search and search all over for someone of the same soul and mind
And even when find that that special person
You're likely to make some grave mistakes
But hang on in there with everything inside
I tell that's what it takes
The very day I found you felt as if I was in an Earthquake
Every day now I wake up I speak to you in love's own voice
So very glad that you're my personal choice
A good love is hard to find
Inside now feeling so good
That you're fine and all mine

Looking deep,into your eyes,courage is leaping up,inside
And my one desire, is to be, your one and only guy
This is my time, now to aim ever so high,the rain of yesterday
Has gone away, waiting here patiently, to hold you close
A never let you ,get away ,  forget about all those,other guys
Who tried ,to give you a play, have mercy on this man, please don't
Leave me alone,with just a sad sigh, respect my courage, if nothing else
That has taught this man, to aim high

With every sigh every glance
Every touch . I fall deeper in love with you
All over again

Jazz starts with rhythm in the heart
Along with drumming language
Notes drifting along the Nile
An Ebony man's drum speaks love
Signals in Gospel Blues Rap Victory
Sad voices lifted up from souls that cry

America just look at what you've done, getting us into war after war,
That are never really won.I'm weeping these tears now, because one of
Your wars across the sea, took away my only son, his letters of coming
Home soon, are all I have, and smiling face in a picture on the mantle
Piece, make me feel inside so sad, the president is getting ready to tour
The country, and say that we should put more troops in another land
Fully  armed on the ground, when will the bell of peace, ring around the
World with an unbroken sound

A mother's love will reach with tenderness to guard and protect
From physical or emotional storms, will go sleepless at night
Walking the floor if there's a fever on your brow
Warn you about no good young man that says that he loves you
But is more in love with himself, and even though your grown and single
While visiting home will still cook your favorite meals just when
You were a child, guard and protect your virtue so the devil
Will not steal, carefully explain con games and ***** tricks
So that you know life isn't  a romance movie , that life isn't a game of
Pretend if you slip or fall in a hidden trap
You might just get killed, a mother's love never fails
For she will spend her last single penny to get a son or daughter
Out of jail

I've been cursed by my enemies and talked about by family and friends
Sometimes shunned by my lover,yet still I rise
I've walked through the American land of dreams and idle promises
Been down in t5he valley of the shadow of death without hope to ease the strain and still I rise
My talent has been taken for granted at times and my gifts ignored
I've played mind games with others while dancing to the sullen  music
Of pretense and hard times and still I rise
Sometimes my endurance withered muscles fails me
Time has left behind pieces of my precious life ripped apart by deceit
I've traveled through mine fields of human denial and suffered times
Harder than poisoned spikes
And still I rise

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

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

Our love is a song to remember, one that will be recalled, down through
The years of time, a symphony tenderly played, on the piano keys of life
Much like a stirring, Chopan composition, unforgettable to both the heart
And mind, to rest peacefully forever,within our mortal souls

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

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

Time fades away like the flower
Man tests his talents at his best and daily fails morality's test
Going fast now are today's hours
Worms do supp on dead man's bones
Not out of love, but simply for the feast set before them
Be sure to give me your flowers of praise now
While I'm yet alive to smell their sweet perfume
Let always your thanks for any kindness of mine
Enter my ears like soft bells
Please do all of this before I go

When I behold your smiling face adorned in soft beauty
There is a silent stirring within casting out old thoughts of being alone
Aside thoughts of tenderness make a stairway of desire outside your door
Waiting to be welcomed inside
My need is a flowing glow,leading this man to think beyond this day
In terms of forever  I want your sweet presence to invade my
Personal space at any moment day or night
come now don't let  my hope be hopeless my longing curl up in dark regret, be kind to me and know that I speak the truth and have kicked
out all doubts
I pray that you will not ***** my heart with the sharp needle of
rejection or quickly my heart will die as you view a corpse who
walks on two feet.
I would leave knowing that all that lights our shadows
Only serve to bring us together in another time and place
Therefore I depart with dreams of thee
Your love is a warm woolen coat wrapped around my once lonely being and a constant reminder of just how blessed among men I am
I need not gather up again my former fears and regrets
For you my love have shown me a new and wonderful land
Where dreams do not sleep but come alive
To those who believe beyond all that they now see

Belive in yourself doubting never and if this hppens every day that
Life brings you'll live happy ever after
When the sun smiles down and rainbows appear
Thwill be no sad factors belive in your self don't have a negative or bd attitude belive in your self because GOD belives in you
And I do too

If you see me sinking low, reach out a helping hand. Most times I can
Stand strong and independent on my own, but every now and then
We all can use a hand to stand. When I get up each morning, after the
Night is gone and done, I thank GOD for letting me see the rising of that
Same old sun, so try not to complain, stop thinking you're all that, you
Could be dead and cold in an unmarked grave, that could be a fact
Time to be thankful for every minute and second of every of each day
Be thankful that GOD loves you enough to grant another day

Blues sits on my front steps
Waiting for me to come home  
To creep out onto the vacant street and walk through
The rain wet street, like in old times of yesterday
Blues put her arms around my emotions
Blues starts into sly remarks
Blues goes on ahead
Turns to me and winks
Much like you do too
We walk as the rain touches our skin
Forgetting about summer rain wet
Because love claims our attention
So really nothing else matters at all , but this moment
And that we have each other together
So weather  matters not , just the laughter and no sadness
Then it's time for me to head home
And in that direction I start to go
Down well known streets
I salute the falling night, the street lights
And they smile back in caring affection
The streets shine with wetness
Raindrops fall down without permission
Their sighs are weary because they know
Just how much  I love and miss you

I'm sweeping the pieces of yesterdays dreams away that crashed
And fell outside of my door  majestic colors of blue gold red orange
All gone now but yet to rise from thee ashes like never before
All thoughts and dreams born inside
And I would say never open the door to silent longings
Not to be loved or embraced
When the heart is ready and open it will enter
To cause a celebration

I'm thinking about that old chapel in the valley
Attended so long ago where sunday church bells would ring
And my teenage baritone would sing sweet  songs that memory
Used to know.Don't you know that I left that chapel in the valley
For the city to be wild and drunk and free
Spent most of my time in dark ***** tonk bars
Driving fast shinny new cars like I was a fake movie star
And all the *** that would come to me
Now I'm older and  a little wiser now and time
Seems to be less plentiful than it was before
And like the prodical son in the bible
The world is no longer much fun and I have the gray hairs
And the unseen scars to prove it my friend and I 'm sorry
For all the wrong that  was done
So down on my knees crying out LORD help please
Welcome this foolish child back home

Overcome every challenge
Chase every dream and make it real
Life isn't as hard as some make it seem
And you will live the best life of all
Climbing every mountain makes your will stronger and stronger
And there exists no fear at all

Children of the world join together and be kind
Invent something or come up with a plan that will benefit all mankind
Your legacy of love and kindness people won't ignore
It will bless the entire world for sure
Let's all come together while there's still time
If we're friends of all colors for peace it will blow hate's mind
I won't hurt you with no weapons of violence or war
And isn't this what we've all been working for
Children of the world can't we agree I need you to make it through
This life and you surely need me
Let's build up the world and stop tearing it down
And make others in each neighborhood smile
And not in sadness because of murders have to their heads  and frown
Children of the world please listen to me
Let's join hands in love around the globe
And let peace be

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

Your love is a cool drink of water refreshing indeed
Causing flowers of need inside of me to be satisfied
I was sitting along the road side if you hadn't stopped
And reached out the flame of need and desire within
Might have died. Now you have made this man take
A probing look into the timeless questions of life and see
The possibile certainties that lie ahead
Its better to do this now while I have a clear head
Ponder all the wonders as I'm not yet dead

Grand Daddy introduced me to country music, when I was a tiny little
Thing and later on, both of would play our guitars side- by- side
And together folks would stop outside while passing by
Just to hear us sing.Somehow I strayed away from country music
While growing up, got into pop music funk and blues
And people I 'm raising my hand up high, because its the natural truth
But  I could't stay away to long, because  I  know now country music
Is in my roots

Cradle me in the softness of your arms
Let our love be the tender shelter from the world's harm
For its in you that I place my sacred trust
As the future awaits before us
Please allow me to just say
Cradle me in the softness of your arms

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.

I step outside taking a deep breath of shimmering heat
Pollution exhaust fueled by hot air escaping from age old trees
That cradle night the open door of morning slams a closing
The house calls a long goodbye
Footsteps slap city pavements as cross streets draw near
Pushing past a maze of houses silent as graves
The opening mouth of the bus reaches out
Cutting off pouring thought
Crowded flesh with mixed attitudes swallow space with cruel  indifference
Time ticks on slowly uncaring

I can't count on tomorrow,I can only live for my today
Night and day seem wedded together, since you left and went away
I go down by the bedside, with folded hands and pray, remembering
When sorrow moved in, it was on a day of hard rain

Tears are falling on the streets, all because young and old are dying,
Being robbed shot stabbed, lost respect among ourselves, for peace we're
Not even trying.Young women and men late at night on the deadly streets
All alone, with your exposed ******* and short skirts, I wonder will you Make it safely home.Death is calling your name,will it be your time to
Answer. So much of our time is spent worshiping the wrong person who's
Not ours , our houses and cars as worship things, and if we go back to
Loving and respecting each person, the brightness of love to each life
We'd bring, because if we'd do this a new song  of joy I would sing

I  was waiting at the PHILADELPHIA train station for her with
Great expectations but when the doors opened and the conductor
Stepped down with his best smile my dream wasn't on
She had passed up the chance to paint the colors of our romance
Guess this is the farewell season,for the train is traveling down my
Personal track of tears clouds of nothing forming overhead
Now passing blues river, it will be stopping at sadness falls
When I lost that girl gone was the greatest dream of all

Death cannot end or steal the spirit that lives in those we leave behind to grieve us as over life's tossed sea it strives
the feeble soul lifts over the tide
as toward lighted portals glide
to float upon a wider sea
until a heavenly port eyes see
when home at last through the restless waves
held in the Master's hand
we sail a lovely sea, so vast
it bounds beyond human grasp
known only to the Mighty one who calmed the roaring waters
our Father ,and our God

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

Lust is usually served on a platter of desire
A fancy feast of slow or quick Death
An  disconnect from reason, a flight of the mind

YOU were soft velvet and spring water .I was root beer and DVDs
You were Macys and all its magic and I was the army and navy store
But I loved you than as I do now and will always
You were opera and concert music I was gospel pop
You were candlelight dinners with place mats
I was Mcdonalds  fries and burgers iced tea
You were Runway fashion and political talk
I was cars and backpacks and in spite of our differences we were blessed with  a brief span of time and I had to convince you that  our love would last
Even  if you had serious doubts and maybe I should have listened
To caution's voice whispering inside my head as you did
But I 've always been a stubborn fool, now I wait here for the lonely years to come  and will say in spite of fate's final decree
That I loved you than as I do now and will always

Don't blame me for wanting to hold you so fast
Don't blame me for wanting each moment here to last
This wonderful new love of ours frees me from loves of the past
So don't blame me
Don't blame me for falling in love with you
Don't blame me for longing to make each dream of yours come true
For now only happiness in your tender arms I see
So please don't blame me

Don't count on me to be there when he tells you goodbye
Not long ago I was kicked to the curb and made to sigh
Don't count on me or even call my number
You put our once love love in the deep freeze
Made it slumber . If you tried harder it could have last
But that's all in the past. So don't count on me
When he tells you in time goodbye

Every woman wants a do right man
One who is faithful day and night at home
And understands with a slow hand
And his love will stay and just won't up and leap frog away
As your do  right man my devotion will shine bright a light
Against the darkest night and never fade
Honey take me now and understand that I'll always be your do right man

I had a dream so long ago
Now you're walking into my life
And rain clouds of doubt have all gone away
I come presenting no false self
I have no desire to be with anybody else
A new dawn of romance has now arrived
It feels that I'm living a dream  with a dream angel
An extra special person who loves me
Floating higher than any blue gray cloud in the sky
Dream angel pleasedon't stop my feelings
From building now
Everyday just let me love youin thanks and graditude

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

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

Embrace this moment and please be sure not to let this moment ever die
Because it was born into time just for you and I
So let us this time grasp or its a memory long past
And if we lose it sadness will make both of cry
Embrace this moment with me, love blooms so very tenderly
What have you got to lose my sweet one so dear to my heart
So let's give this romance our best try

It sure felt good for while to be the hero
But seems that now I'm reduced to being a zero
Folks think right now I'm in the wrong movie
You up and stole my love than baled on me
Now this once hero spends each night crying some real tears
Your bags are gone that were packed don't expect you to come back
There was a fault line in the love foundation that caused a crack
My love life  has been whittled to zero and I ride along the streets
A very sad and tearful ex hero

The two men had known each other since childhood
And had remained friends
With exploring eyes they had seen eagles soar in Italy,boats  sail in Greece
the large moving hands of Big Ben in London,laughing children in Paris
And in all of these wonderful places they could speak and clearly
Understand each language.They had become world travelers
Having traveled by boat train horseback camel taxie.Than one ,each traveler had discovered that different ailments had come upon the other
One traveler's legs were weak  needing a wheel chair, his friend had gone blind
so they sat down together to discuss their mutal plinghts
And put a plan in place that would let them continue enjoying
new travel adventures.The crippled traveler in the wheel chair
Promised to be the eyes for seeing. The blind traveler promised to use
his strong legs and fit body to push his wheelchair bound friend wherever they decided to journry.

I look at the face in the mirror and say
Do I really know him, just how much longer will he be around
And are his chances growing dim, but somehow I believe
If I give out to others real love  this man will live a very long life
And if I love God and believe in mankind and peace for everyone here
It will help me avoid both hate and unkind strife

I can tell the difference between fact or fiction and so can you
Fiction would be if I said that I love you and didn't
Fact is that I love you beyond any great love that has ever been
Or has spanned the the years of time, you were there when lonely times
Came calling and reached out to me, when sad tears were falling
Thank you for my spirit being renewed, thank God  and Heaven for you

On that last day of goodbye
we hope that you will go slowly
but come back quickly to visit
for the landscape of our lives will be less without you
your smile was a morning sun of greeting that warmed us
and the soft voice was like romantic music
that swept over our spirits
like April rain refreshing
dear friend, goodbye is such a sad word
but inside the mirror of memory
you will not fade

Your love is just like fire , running through me
A warning sign to all others to stay away from me
Because I'm so into you, just want it to burn, flying in my mind
To long forgotten dreams, your love shapes and defines what's inside
Of me, taking me up to the next level, your soft touch gives me goosebumps, even if you didn't already love me
From a mountaintop I would be foolish enough to jump

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.

Flickering moments spent in your presence are not enough
They are wine  and food for my soul
And I find myself greedy for more as time silently ticks by
When all others would attack me with dagger and scorning tongues
I find that your love serves as my first line of defense
So could I ever be cold in the shelter of your arms
When its a tender fire inside that warms me so?