Songs and Me

#753367 - 09/19/09 03:01 PM Songs and Me
Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 7,960 couchgrouch Top 30 Poster
couchgrouch Top 30 Poster Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 7,960	Songs and Me Well, I take my ole guitar out by this lonely cedar Listen to the rolling meadow’s rhyme and meter And the cross-stitch clouds above me keep me cool and shaded Out here I feel to create is why I was created It’s like dreams and youth Prayer and truth Time and sadness Love and madness Cos when me and nature sing a song together Lord, the echo tells me we belong together It’s like sun and Spring Wind and wing Moon and sea And then songs and me Sometimes writing is discovery…sometimes it’s surrender All I write will fail to reach a single rose’s splendor I’m content to sit with my guitar and pen and paper And perhaps a simple tune will have me as its shaper It’s like dreams and youth Prayer and truth Time and sadness Love and madness Cos when me and nature sing a song together Lord, the echo tells me we belong together It’s like sun and Spring Wind and wing Moon and sea And then songs and me And when twilight stretches purple out across the meadow Somewhere high above a lone star twinkles through the shadow Darkness only goes to show the beauty of what’s shining I just find the light between the shadows when I’m rhyming It’s like dreams and youth Prayer and truth Time and sadness Love and madness Cos when me and nature sing a song together Lord, the echo tells me we belong together It’s like sun and Spring Wind and wing Moon and sea And then songs and me ©2009 Robert George Nashville demos etc: https://www.soundclick.com/bands3/default.cfm?bandID=431939 other demos: https://soundcloud.com/wabash-cannibal Amazon Kindle books by Robert George you may enjoy: 1) Americana 2) Teenage Graceland 3) The Will to Be 4) Fort Mystery 5) Wheel Sea 6) My One True Love

#753470 - 09/20/09 12:01 AM Re: Songs and Me [Re: couchgrouch]
Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 3,199 John Hoffman Top 100 Poster
John Hoffman Top 100 Poster Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 3,199 St. Peters, Mo.	Rob, you know the rules. You got it down very nicely though. have fun, John Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword never had an editor.

#754530 - 09/24/09 09:56 AM Re: Songs and Me [Re: John Hoffman]
Joined: May 2009 Posts: 41 sparrow Casual Observer
sparrow Casual Observer Joined: May 2009 Posts: 41	"I just find the light between the shadows when I’m rhyming" Yes, that seems very true. You're one of the best rhymers I've read - that's why I keep coming back ;-)

#754822 - 09/25/09 02:15 PM Re: Songs and Me [Re: sparrow]
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couchgrouch Top 30 Poster Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 7,960	John, I don't know what that means but thanks, haha. thanks Sparrow...and thanks for resurrecting my lyrics. Nashville demos etc: https://www.soundclick.com/bands3/default.cfm?bandID=431939 other demos: https://soundcloud.com/wabash-cannibal Amazon Kindle books by Robert George you may enjoy: 1) Americana 2) Teenage Graceland 3) The Will to Be 4) Fort Mystery 5) Wheel Sea 6) My One True Love

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