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XOx Uriah xOX
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since 2006-02-11
Posts 1403
Virginia

0 posted 2006-04-05 01:44 AM


I found this today inside one of many notebooks whose pages have yellowed with time.  I figured...What the heck.  I've posted just about everything else I've written.  

              
                Magic Bottle Blues


The sun went down
on a long dark day.
All I do is frown
since m'baby went away.
Sittin' on the floor
Tryin' to write a song.
Baby slammed the door
and the nights grew long.

Rain drippin'
through my ceilin'
Fillin' up my bucket
The way that I been feelin'
I oughta take my life and chuck it.
To ease the pain,
I cant find a thing
I guess they'll find me hangin'
from a guitar string.

Sittin' on the floor
Wonderin' what to do.
An empty bottle and a guitar
and a picture of you.
You're a pretty little thing
by the candle flames flicker.
But you ran outta patience
Now I've run outta liquor

Spin the magic bottle
Give it a twirl...
'round and around
It's a mean ol' world.

The bottle points to yo' picture
lyin' there on the floor
Now you and me and the bottle
Don't go 'round anymore

I aint gotta thing to feel good about
Baby left me and the magic ran out.

Hey Magic Bottle...
tell ya what to do...
Make the world stop turnin'
It's as empty as you.

Spin the magic bottle
Give it a twirl
'round and around
and around and
'round and
'round
and around
It's a mean ol' world.

© Copyright 2006 Larry F. Leake - All Rights Reserved
terasinas
Member
since 2006-03-24
Posts 91
Michigan ... The Great Lakes
1 posted 2006-04-05 09:32 AM


Love it Lar ... brutally honest and catchy too ... a good thought provolking tune

tera

LeeJ
Member Patricius
since 2003-06-19
Posts 13296

2 posted 2006-04-05 09:52 AM


moving and sad...yet so well written with emotion and great passion...

StevenS
Senior Member
since 2005-09-21
Posts 945
L. A. (Lower Alabama)
3 posted 2006-04-05 09:59 AM


Thanks Uriah, they used to say the guy who took the first drink from a bottle drank the little devils off it. I can't say that's true as I found there were still plenty of little devils at the bottom. :-)
passing shadows
Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577
displaced
4 posted 2006-04-05 02:26 PM


I can relate too well, I'm afraid.

But good thing is, time goes by...flames give way to ashes, and rebuilding can begin.

The Lady
Member Rara Avis
since 2005-12-26
Posts 7634
The Southwest
5 posted 2006-04-05 05:41 PM




It's a sad and desperate poem Uriah... wonderful as always.

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