anyone can whistle

 I can slay a dragon

Any old week-
Easy.
What's hard is simple.
What's natural comes hard.
Maybe you could show me
How to let go,
Lower my guard,
Learn to be free.
Maybe if you whistle,
Whistle for me.

- Stephen Sondheim

wherever I go

 

There's a place in my heart
Though we're far apart
May you always know
No matter how long since I saw you
I'll keep a flame there for you

Wherever I go

Wherever I go - Mark Knopfler

    

the Most

 

 
Someday well I'll look back and wonder
Someday comes around quicker than they told you
Asking, "Did I do, what I was suppose to?"
In my life

Don't know why the little things make us and sometimes it takes us
Too damn long to figure out what matters the most...
My life is green grass through the snow
A sweet reckless hope
And, baby, I know what matters the most

-The Most- Lori McKenna

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

Men

 It's the men who have the power, it's the men who have the might

And the world's a place of horror because each man thinks he's right
A man's home is his castle so the family let him in
But what's important in that kingdom is the women and the children

A husband and a father, every man's a king
But he's really just a drone, gathers no honey, has no sting
Have pity on the general, the king, and the captain
They know they're expendable, after all they're men

"Men"  Loudon Wainwright III

These were Roger Ebert's Final Words

 

He looked ever peaceful

He looked ever young
Accepting his moment that soon would be done
He wrote in a note
That he passed to his wife
As he felt him shedding the skin of this life

It said
"There is a vastness that can't be contained
Or described as a thought in the flesh of our brain
It's everything, everywhere, future and past
Dissolving together in an eternal flash"

Worth no words to say that he loved her so much
His hands seems to pass through whatever it touched
And the credits that rolled listed all of God's names
As images floated away from their frames
From their frames

-"Roger Ebert" by Clem Snider

Spider John

 That is all my story

Been these thirty years since I took to the road
Find my precious jewel one
If you see my lily, won't you give her my regards
Tell her ol' spider got tangled
In the black web that he spun

You can tell her that ol' spider got tangled
In the black web that he spun

some peoples lives

 Some people's lives run down like clocks

One day they stop and that's all they've got

Some lives wear out like old tennis shoes

No one can use, well, it's sad but it's true

Didn't anybody tell them?

Didn't anybody see?

Didn't anybody love them

Like you love me?

      -Janis Ian

Don't let me come home a stranger

 Will there come a time when the memories fade.

and pass on with the long, long years,
When the ties no longer bind?
Lord save me from this darkest fear.
Don't let me come home a stranger,
I couldn't stand to be a stranger.

the Gravity of the Situation

 

We blew past the army motorcade 

and it's abnormal load haulage

The gravity of the situation

came on us like a bit of new knowledge

The bubbliest bubble bath

broke down on the bank

The gravity of the situation

is why our old thought bubbles sank

humble and gracious

-Vic Chestnutt

Diamond rings and old bar stools

 It ain't like midnight and cigarette smoke

It ain't like watered down whiskey and coke
I guess some things just don't mix like you hoped
Like me and you
And diamond rings and old barstools

The wrongs and rights, the highs and lows
The "I love you's, " the "I told you so's"
Past few miles to wherever is home
Another morning waking up alone

Bridges and Balloons

 

Oh my love

Oh it was a funny little thing
To be
The ones
To've seen

The sight of bridges and balloons
Makes calm canaries irritable
And they caw and claw all afternoon
Catenaries and dirigibles
Brace and buoy the living room
A loom of metals warp woof wimble
And a thimbles worth of milky moon
Can touch hearts larger than a thimble

-Bridges and Balloons  Joanna Newsom

I get along without you very well

 

I get along without you very well

Of course, I do
Except when soft rains fall
And drip from leaves, then I recall
The thrill of being sheltered in your arms
Of course, I do
But I get along without you very well

I've forgotten you, just like I should
Of course, I have
Except to hear your name
Or someone's laugh that is the same
But I've forgotten you, just like I should

-Hoagy Carmichael