If you can spell it out, you can have it. My God. My Lord. If you can count ’em out, you can have ’em, they’re yours. It’s a fact of science, a law of nature, a magic spell. We can dance and sing what time can only tell. Dum da da, Dum da da, Dum…
Category: Nathan Moore
on the futility of words to describe my love and the merits of humming auld lang syne
nonsense on a napkin stained with rings of wine calling on my wandering heart it’s off in another time in the silence of the dancers another rhyme falls in the deafening din of answers i hear my heart, it calls it calls the name of my dear who slides across the room i look at…
Tommy Chong
The day they put Tommy Chong in prison for selling water bongs, I was hittin’ mine sitting there screaming at the television how could Tommy Chong be doing time!? O the breaking news keeps breaking my heart taking my morning muse and tearing it apart. The president with the small dark and beady eyes keeps…
When My Time Comes
When my time comes, I want the world to know though I loved my life, I do not hate to go Nonono. Nonono. it’s always been clear to me. I smile to think I’m here for but a little while. Yeah yeah yeah. Yeah yeah yeah. I won’t be on my knees pleading for more…
Wasted Was Ted
there’s a guy i call him Ted who lives inside my head and if you ever met him then you may be dead i don’t much like him but once he saved my life and now he says i owe him so i’m drinking tonight ………….so i’m drinking tonite wasted was Ted, wasted was Ted,…
Van Jones
when you’re young you’re radical by nature when the old just leave well enough alone this man is just inspiring hatred there’s nothing wrong with Van Jones Van Jones he’s a man I understand him gave his heart to the mighty thoughts he’s known looks like we got ourselves a reader there’s nothing wrong with…
Understand Under
i want to play like jelly roll morton, write like waldo emerson, sing like Odetta — say give me Liberty like Patrick Henry escape like Houdini on the very last breath i want to fly straight as an arrow, crooked sparrow i want to swallow fir, i want paint the town red i want to…
Turn Me Loose
I know you like it when I’m playing it cool, but babe that’s getting harder and harder to do. One of the nights and it might be soon I’m gonna be dropping down and begging you to turn me loose, turn me loose, turn me loose on you. Biding my time biting my tongue. Can’t…
Traveling On
Tossed a penny watched it roll said “heads I’m heading to New Mexico, tails I’m staying right here where I sit.” Would you believe me if I lied said it stayed up on it’s side so I hitched a ride to a place I never left. Oh that traveling on, that feeling gone, that age…
Train of Thoughts
There are those who will hate to see you shine because it reminds them of the blindness they’ve embraced they will talk you down all around town and then laugh and be all friendly face to face. But that don’t mean nothing’. That’s just nothing’ but mean. I mean, we all hate to feel small…
Daydream In The Real World
I’ve been making myself sick thinking I’m dying. I don’t go out much because I’m all alone. I may not be a star but at least I ain’t trying. Picking that chicken right off of the bone. Picking that chicken right off of the bone. I’m a daydream in the real world. I’m a rolling…
The Cost of Leaving
Wonder will you ever love another And I really know it deep down There’s nothing stranger than a stranger That used to be your only friend in town The cost of leaving is rising every day The cost of being the one that got away Well they say, they say I got a way I…
Choose Thy Love
There’s no easy way to say it. No way to say it right. We’ll be talking all day late into the night and in the morning we’ll come to see the light better for knowing worth the fight Cause I love you it’s growing too Makes me want to grow old for the first time…