Trouble Ahead Blues (compilation)
By smokejack
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Trouble Ahead Blues (compilation).
Drink.
I drank some whisky spat it straight out
I’m a teetotalling man full of self doubt
Some things get me angry
Make me want to shout
But I stay silent cause I don’t know
What life is all about
Sometimes its hard to think
Almost makes me want
To turn to drink.
Weight.
The mirror never lies
Though it looks like I’m double sized
I seem a lot older today
I should stick to looking to the past
Because good things don’t last
My shoulders are creaking
My bones they like to crack
A lifetime of lifting and shifting
Is carved upon my back
I’m a lot slower than I used to be
My face looks like the rusty bark
Of an old Oak tree.
Dust.
I have been in love but sometimes that love
Has been returned unopened
Cupid was a mess seems he got the wrong address
I guess that’s your luck when love comes unstuck
I still see the faces of the woman I have known
I wonder if they also ended up alone
Or not
They probably tied the knot had kids and forgot
Who I was because love moves on
And leaves the dust behind.
Shoes.
I have wandered most of my days
Once worked at digging graves
Never saw a stone that said
Jesus saves
I guess he was too late
I once wondered what it would be like
To be in Jesus’s shoes
That’s when I understood irony
Because the man walked in barefeet.
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Good to see you writing again
Good to see you writing again Smokejack.
Thsi would be great set to blues music, I can hear the immigrants arriving with nothing but a song to sing. It really works for me.
Jenny.
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