I tripped on a cloud and fell-a eight miles high
I tore my mind on a jagged sky
~Mickey Newberry, writer
Performed by Kenny Rogers and the First Edition, 1968
Acid trippin’
drippin’
big black letters
on a dead end sign
Deep dark hole
my soul my mind
crawling in
crawling out
Straight up
straight down
downtown
somewhere
Saw too much
blew out my mind
and I have no spare
so I just dropped in
Do you know
please tell me
what condition is
my condition in
Anyway
someway
your way
my way
Our way
someday
uncloudy
Sunday
Enraged raw and spitting
Love warped beyond identity
Ten fingers ready to in-dulge
Sick offerings real men can't abide
Scarring rosette flesh once, always
Memories etched eternal
Blasphemers amuck, still free
Where is the Newberry blade
Cast upon ogres smiling with glee
Revulsion retching tears without salt
Anguish of hopeless helpless men
Protection eludes soul aching ire
Never settle for less than hellfire
I tripped on a cloud and fell-a eight miles high
I tore my mind on a jagged sky
~Mickey Newberry
compartments
and partitions
in through daydreams
out through nightmares
prescriptions and non
null and into the void
of expansion
spirit and soul
confined then not
I talk to God
while the Devil
is eavesdropping
goody-goody
was she
must say
a bit
too much
for me
goody shoes
are two
in one
she stuffs
those don'ts
been done
the other
kept for
her dos
those rights
best left
outta sight
we all
won't see
these things
well done
saved for
foolish fun
one goes
near here
nor there
searching so
for goodys
who care
rhyme 30 lines 60 words
Re: Goody Two Shoes popularized by John Newberry 1765
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