You might take this with a grain of salt
Knowing I heard it on the grape vine
Why they let the cat out of the bag
I'd say your guess is as good as mine
They say I tend to sit on the fence,
Off my rocker by not a far cry
That I'm not playing with a full deck
They should let those sleeping dogs lie!
Because there's method to my madness,
And I'm to blame if things go south
So I'm not beating around the bush
You heard it straight from the horses mouth!
True Story
Yesterday
An old lady told me
Sad isn't it
The news that Peter Kay had died
I was surprised because I had not heard the news
She proceeded to tell me
Her Son worked at the hospital
But it wasn't on the news
Because the family wanted there privacy respected
Fast forward to the next day
And a Google search later
I read Peter Kay dead hoax
Funny that because she claimed to have got the news
From her Son who worked in the hospital he supposedly died
Sums up Fake news and Chinese whispers perfectly
A lie read on social media
Embellished on by a gullible sheep
Without any evidence
Was passed on like gospel truth
And was bought hook line and sinker
Better to be a cynic
Than caught up in it
Make your own mind up
But don't believe everything you hear
Unless it comes from the horses mouth
I don't know about you
But I can't speak horse
It has been very dry because rain did not come here for a long time this year
So a bunch of us locals got together to discuss what the heck is going on around here
So, we thought it would be just a wonderful idea to get it from the horses mouth and
make it very clear
So yesterday when it did rain finally after so long an absence I captured a drop of rain to question so that we all might hear Just why rain avoided us so long, had we done anything to make it mad or did it not like us for some reason and decide not to appear
After several minutes of hard questions and not getting anywhere at all
The drop of rain seemed to cower and be smaller, shrinking with interogation fear
Well we thought we had it cornered as it kept shrinking with shame from each blast
upon its ear
Then all of a sudden something strange happened it just seemed to totally disappear
We don't know where it could have gone, for we had placed it under all the hot lights
so we could see it so very clear
So we put out an wide sweeping APB with a picture of a tear
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