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ethome
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since 2000-05-14
Posts 11858
New Brunswick Canada

0 posted 2000-06-11 08:00 AM


Those high school sweetheart days we loved,
we fit together hand and glove.
We sang in sunsets spilling gold
I can't believe the songs we wrote.
We hid behind the graveyard fence
your searching kiss was so intense
and my hearbeat skipped and whirled,
oh you were a good time girl.
You mothered me just like a boy
I smothered you just like a toy.

We were young and living dreams
happy with our destiny.
In the heat we'd sing a toast
to King and Taylor's lyric rotes,
we sang two heart harmony
and in the chorus our souls would meet.

One on one a sculpture carved
together we were modern art.
A model for the world to see
we'd sing of change with words of peace.
We were clean and music deep
just like moonlight on the sea.
We lived the fairy tales of hope
the brand new home the future wrote.
We built great plans for future tasks
working on the dreams to last.

Those growing years we spent together
we thought they'd go on forever.
But the nature of the boy
singing songs telling stories
opened doors beyond the stage
here tommorrow gone today.
When the praises came to rest
I tried to fight them with my best
but the change from boy to man
blankets over younger plans.

The years upon your throbbing breast
have stayed with me at heart no less.
But I booked away to other spoils
the freedom from our midnight oil.
Now I sing the tavern shift
a folksey rover with a gift.
But there's a lost and unheard verse
that can't explain our love and work
So I play us but there's no you,
just smoke filled rooms and jaundice booze.

When it comes down to the truth
there was no gamble in our youth.
Swept away by rushing tides
we filled the needs we craved inside.
But changes flow from buried streams
and surface in the thoughts we breed.
So now it's over past the end
In the chorus I hear a friend.

We were young and living dreams
happy with our destiny.
In the heat we'd sing a toast
to King and Taylor's lyric rotes.
We sang two heart harmony
and in the chorus our souls would meet.


Celtrue2000@E3B1G9

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Janet Marie
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since 2000-01-22
Posts 18554

1 posted 2000-06-11 09:10 AM


wow this is excellent ...
the rhyme and flow are perfect...
wonderful emotions and memories weaved in with the music.
well written and much enjoyed
jm

 And it's good that I'm not angry,
I just need to get over,
I'm not angry, anymore
Cry when you cry,
run when you run,
love when you love,
represent the ashes
that you leave behind
~MB20~

"What the caterpillar calls the end ...
The world calls a butterfly"
~Lao Tze Tao~
~Butterflies are meant to be free~



Marge Tindal
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2 posted 2000-06-11 11:37 AM


ETHome~
This is liltingly lovely.

And what a GREAT line this is -

'Now I sing the tavern shift
a folksey rover with a gift'


Wow !  I enjoyed your 'song'.
~*Marge*~



 ~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~
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Kit McCallum
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since 2000-04-30
Posts 14774
Ontario, Canada
3 posted 2000-06-11 04:07 PM


This was wonderful ETHome ... I loved the flow, the rhythm and the presentation of your sentiments ... beautifully done ... thanks for the memories!

Best wishes,
/Kit

[This message has been edited by Kit McCallum (edited 06-11-2000).]

Trew
Member
since 2000-06-10
Posts 365
Ottawa, Canada
4 posted 2000-06-11 04:13 PM


ethome,

The refrain did it for me.
Especially:
"We sang two heart harmony
and in the chorus our souls would meet"

Wow!  That was just an incredible piece.
Must go read it again...

Trew.


 I have been to see the world. Tasted life at every turn.
And all the time your face came back to haunt me.
-Chris DeBurgh

A Romantic Heart
Member Ascendant
since 1999-09-03
Posts 5496
Forever In Your Heart
5 posted 2000-06-11 10:48 PM


Bravo! (clapping Hands) encore! encore!  

[This message has been edited by A Romantic Heart (edited 06-11-2000).]

ethome
Member Patricius
since 2000-05-14
Posts 11858
New Brunswick Canada
6 posted 2000-06-12 05:52 AM


Thank you so much Janet, Marge, Kit and A Romantic Heart for your kindness.
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