If Not Now…


If not nowThen whenIf not todayThen why make your promisesA love declared for days to comeIs as good as none You can wait ’til morning comesYou can wait for the new dayYou can wait and lose this heartYou can wait and soon be sorry If not nowThen whenIf not todayThen […]


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Poetic Tragedy


the cup is not half empty as pescimists sayas far as he’s sees nothings left in the cupa whole cup full of nothing for him to induldgesince the voice of ambition has long since been shut up a singer, a writer, he’s not dreaming now of going nowherehe gave heed […]


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Peace Frog


There’s blood in the streets, it’s up to my anklesShe cameThere’s blood on the streets, it’s up to my kneeShe cameBlood on the streets in the town of ChicagoShe cameBlood on the rise, it’s following me She came just about the break of dayShe came and then she drove awaySunlight […]


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Give Love A Try


Now you know you can’t denywhat you’re feeling insideyou want meand before you left my sightit was running through my mindI want you you know what you wantand I know what you needit’s me it’s me babeyou felt it in your heartand I knew it right from the startit’s love […]


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Mama


Mama I wanna thank you For sharing your blessings upon me Taking time to understand the lady I wanna be Yes mama Mama I wanna thank you For sharing your blessings upon me Taking time to understand the lady I wanna be This cold world had me num the pain […]


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Somebody for Someone


There’s a deep girl in the corner shopSelling sugar for money in the dead of the nightAnd her soul’s in the sugar, and her heart’s in the mudAnd she’s crying with a stranger for someone to loveAnd she sings Look at me, see meLook at me, save meFree me, find […]


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Let You Down


no risk, no fun I’m here, you’re goneI’m cool, you’re hot I love you notDon’t say a wordUnless you’re heardI know I hate to see you rudeI think I’ll let you downYou should have let me goI think I’ll make you leave‘Cause you have lost controlYou’ve pushed the line too […]


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If My Homie Calls


Verse One: Ever since you was a pee-wee, down by my knee with a wee-weeWe been coochie-coo all through school, you and me GBack in the days we played practical jokes oneverybody smoked with they locs and the yolks onAll through high school, girls by the dozensSayin we cousins, knowin […]


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Lorelei


Ferie dearest, was it loe soothfast or a façade;A serenade siren’d to lure – Zounds! not to court me?A menad, yet the sweetest colleen –Certes didst thou me unveil meekly life pristine. Lorelei,A poet of tragedies, scribe I lauds to Death,Yet who the hell was I to dare?Lorelei,Canst thou not […]


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Spanish Guitar


A smoky room, a small cafeThey come to hear you playAnd drink and dance the night awayI sit out in the crowdAnd close my eyesDream you’re mineBut you don’t knowYou don’t even know that I am here I wish that I was in your armsLike that Spanish guitarAnd you would […]


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I


I am seeing tunnel vision in a world thats dark and cold, I cannot believe how much I’ve changed since the days of old, I know it’s temporary but I need to focus straight, I cannot believe I lost control of my fate, I need forgiveness from the people I […]


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Heartbeat Amplifier


That poem is not funnyYou’re just laughing about those wordsThat describe my feelings, when I am hurt But I just couldn’t resistto show you those linesI just gave you a diamondand you act like that’s a crime And I just got down in my souldown on my kneesGive my permission […]


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Fling


In my life, love couldn’t find its way.Seemed like it all felt the same.Now you brought light, brighter than summer days,This time around I hope that it stays. Even though you started out as a friend,Since what I’m feeling, I just can’t pretend.Nah, nah, no, no, no, no. You need […]


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Drop To Zero


Drop to Zero, Drop(its happening again)I feel boxed in, (its happening again)I’m trapped inside, (its happening again)Feels like the world’s closing in (its happening again)and there’s nowhere to hide This time nothing feels right to me,I’m sinking deeper within,I’ll wait for you to loose sight of me,Before I suffer again. […]


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Jimmy


What was it like to seeThe face of your own stabilitySuddenly look awayLeaving you with the dead and hopeless? Eleven and she was gone.Eleven is when we waved good-bye.Eleven is standing still, Waiting for me to free himBy coming home. Moving me with a sound.Opening me within a gesture.Drawing me […]


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