morningside

 

Don't want to waste what I have to give

In any of the time that I've got left
I can do more than I thought I could
Work brings more luck than knocking on wood
There's random bad and random good
Work brings more good luck

Better be off
I've got dreams to dream
Though it seems uphill and a little extreme
If I can find hope in this fading light
Then I'll find you on the morningside

-John Gorka

love is pleasing

 Oh love is pleasin' and love is teasin'

And love is a pleasure when first it's new
But as it grows older sure the love grows colder
And it fades away like the morning dew

And love and porter makes a young man older
And love and whiskey makes him old and grey
And what can't be cured love has to be endured love
And now I am bound for America

love is pleasing- the Dubliners

Movin On

 

And now you're gone, now you're gone
As if there ever was a you
Who held me dying, pulled me through
Who's moving on
who's kidding who

Who's moving on?
Who's kidding who?

    Leonard Cohen

Better Days

 I may never understand the full measure of a man

But this is what I'd tell him if he was here
Sometimes it feels like you're caught in a riptide
Pulling you out to a watery grave
Sometimes it feels like you've seen enough
It's all too much
You feel like giving up
Sometimes it feels like I'm stretched too thin
How does anyone win in this race that we're in
Sometimes the going gets pretty rough
But I'm hangin' tough
I'm not giving up on better days

I'm not giving up

"Better Days" -Noah Gunderson

Twenty-Five

 There was a time when I imagined us forever

I can't quite remember how I thought we'd work it out
I guess I would move to California or you to Boston
And I'd learn to like to stay at home or you'd learn to like going out

 
And although the stories that I tell myself about us now
Don't take me to the grave
I'll be an old woman with somebody else by my side
But I will always be in love with you in my memories
When we were twenty-five

 
I always think of you whеn I drink affogatos
'Cause that summer, we would havе them every afternoon
The hot and cold was such a perfect combination
Melt all together, bittersweet and creamy, and always gone to soon

 
But all the joy we had and love we gave away back then
Well, it never went to waste
'Cause I'll be an old woman with somebody else by my side
But I will always be in love with how you loved me
When we were twenty-five

as god commands

 “As God commands

clouds with the wind
The flower in the meadow
The bird to its nest
The sea next to the sand
As God commands
The ice with the cold
It’s what I want
Always be by your side
Always stay with you”

Como Dios Manda - La Santa Cecilia

lullabye

 

Goodnight, my angel

Now it's time to dream
And dream how wonderful your life will be
Someday your child may cry
And if you sing this lullaby
Then in your heart
There will always be a part of me

Someday we'll all be gone
But lullabies go on and on...
They never die
That's how you
And I
Will be

Billy Joel