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Bodger
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Tolerance for a short time

0 posted 2005-11-27 01:28 PM


From a lot of ideas and sometimes my notebook producing words I never wrote

From Boy Soldier, Dream, Tumbleweed and my ears

Dave

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I hear the sound of drummers beat
Why is there never a retreat
I don’t wan’t bully beef
I just want a light relief
Major John at my back
Elfin at my front
Rifle lying across my arms
Escape a stupid stunt

Into the camp in blazing sun
Stupidy, your life’s begun
Found the water I wanted there
Saw the horses
Knew no care
In stupidy I forgot my creed
Forgot my life
And my bloody steed

Marshall want’s a word Dear John
Get yourself where you belong
You’ve a talent for quiet places
Get this one under your braces
Town’s called Ratrap
You’re the man
You go alone
And face the can

I look over my shoulder
A donkey, a One Horse Town
Feet on my desk
Makes a change it’s just brown
And their mine for a change
My life maybe re-arrange
Wind coming in dry again
Woman following
Can I deny again

Why don’t you leave gal
Go somewhere that has some meaning for you Sal
I’m no use to you
Two guns on my hip
My life on one slip
And you dead in my bed
Find a highbrow
Find a lowbrow
Find a good bell
That doesn’t ring Hell

This badge rings
It might as well be tin
Find a good man Sal
My horse is my only Pal
Door swept the room
Sucking away the gloom
I left by the shack
There was no looking back

The peace of night is my old friend
I walk a lonely march
No-one hears me move
I don’t take any chance
I head for the mountain
Miles and miles away
Away from the shadows
Away from the rest of my day
If they spread me out

I look over my shoulder
There is my women
I look ahead, sand
Beneath me, the one thing I trust
My horse
My guns sit silent now
And I ride on
The colour of green and yellow is the town
At least the wind has no bias
It just blows
Tumbleweed
I need to get out to the honesty of the land
And let my heart take it's time

To turn
And know honesty
Is the thing you make


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Gaia
1 posted 2005-11-27 03:38 PM


I have several interpretations of this, perhaps none are parallel to your intent,
but does that matter? No.
And I keep one of those mysteriously inked notebooks, Dave, and enjoy reading my own scribbles months down the road, trying to decipher or assign some meaning to globs of words that seem to float solo upon frayed scruffy pages.

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california
2 posted 2005-12-11 11:31 PM


quite a tall tale, enjoyed.

My spirit will rise
above the sea~
There will be no drowning
of my soul or me~

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