Please don't take
What's not yours
Because I need it
And don't think
Your welcome to
What is mine
I've worked hard
Earning all
These sad feelings
And I'm steeling memories and time
I'm steeling memories
One string at a time
It cries out with heartache
It bends and it whines
This old Emmons pulls
And it pushes real fine
So please take your memories
Cause I'm steeling mine
Tomorrow she said
I would be
Over her
That pain goes away
And So does the hurt
But I know
the reason
I love rhythms and rhyme
It's because
I steel memories
One note at a time
I'm steeling memories
One string at a time
It cries out with heartache
It bends and it whines
My old Marlen pulls
and releases with time
The heartaches and sadness
That still live
In my mind
I sat down at my 10 string
Grabbed my pedal and slide
I used my many heartaches
To make each of them cry
So please don't you steal
What I feel is mine
As I pour out the heartache
On that E9
Don't feel for my heartache
Cause I'll be just fine
I'm steeling memories.....
Cause you'll never be mine...
Categories:
emmons, emotions, feelings, imagery, memory,
Form: Lyric
Walk to the Deli corner
Buy two bags of Wonder bread
Pass five sushi places on one block
Daydream about what Lundy Brothers was like before it closed
Cross the Avenue to the Bay
Watch the toddlers run to catch the seagulls
Hear women’s laughter by the railing.
Smell the raw fish sold by the water near
the fishing trip boats.
Say hello to the fish salesmen
Move slightly to the side as they yell, “Half Price!”
your ears ringing–
Try to feed the swans among the swarm of ducks and seagulls
Feed the seagulls too.
Laugh at how the ducks fight each other over crumbs in the air.
Stroll over the Bay Bridge
Pigeons at your feet
Children over the railing
Led down childhood memories of intertwined feet under Cappuccino’s glass table
Hairs sticking to chap stick
Spinning over water,
coat buttons open
Categories:
emmons, placesfish,
Form: List