Saturday, February 20, 2010

recited at house show extracted from "I Got Loaded" medley

Last night i got loaded
I said meet me on the self-helpless aisle at books-a-million
thanks-a-million!
Do you like my hair? i cut it
Do you like my voice? i cut you off
Pawing through the pages i find your autobiography
Do you wanna know what it's called?
it's called Love in the Time of Chlamydia
Yes that's it, not Love in the Time of Cholera
But Love in the Time of Chlamydia

Now all i can do with my Southern pout is spit out a farthing
leaning on one hip-ass joint scoliosis
my body- a crescent moon when i sigh
Before tonight only the sun had it's way with me
Darkening me
Much like you had your way with me darkening me
Much like i had my way with you too, darkening you

(then i went into Beyonce's "If I Were A Boy" en francais)

si j'étais garçon,
je pense que je pourrais comprendre,
comment il se sent pour aimer une fille,
je jure je serais un meilleur homme

If i were a boy,
I think i could understand
How it feels to love a girl,
I swear i'd be a better man

Thursday, February 4, 2010

haven't figured a melody yet, or a title.... it feels really jumbled, i don't mind feedback

You and i stand where the east meets the west
i likes you the best, you likes me the best
and the stained words exchanged in the early morning night
are now spoiled and supine in our cradle of the day's light

This was never about love

You got pain in your eyes and whiskey on your breath
I could try to empathize but i ain't got no energy left
I got whiskey on my lips and panties on my hips
not a care in the world, i'm simply that kinda girl

High on romance'n when you took my hands'n
led me to your lips, that took me on this trip
now im left feeling stripped and sick

This was never about love

Queazy, ill, the turning in my insides
how can this sickness turn into satifaction so fast?
this all right there next to me
But everything i'll ever need is here inside of me, not in the person next to me

You start with that talk about the color of my eyes
I like your five o'clock shadow against my three o'clock thighs
and the way our eyes glaze over when we say our "Goodbyes"
Still smell the liquor on your lips from neck to hips
Now i can't detour this trip

This was never about love

Sometimes i feel we're both lose'n our mind
i say "look out above them lies you been hide'n behind"
Your passionate gaze, was once just a passing glance
We both got skeletons in our closets
if we gonna let 'em rattle, we might as well let 'em dance

This was never about love

We're both dizzy from our drinks
and your bright eyes now sink
into the depths of mine
Now look at where your armor lies,
not against your chest
but at your side

I'm bored ain't got no place to go 'cept follow you down this road
I'm afraid i'll lose track, end up feel'n trapped and never return back

This was never about love

It was like nothing i'd ever know, you're just a child and i'm full grown
These things change, while those stay the same
I mindlessly let you, this child, reign and have forgotten my name....

...someone tell me...
who's refereeing this game?
Equation left unsolved, do i even fit in this puzzle at all?

This was never about love

off the mark

May this year heal those who've been hinderd by their little mental wounds
heart on your sleeve, heart on my sleeve
No cufflinks could hold back this heart, no brain could change my mind
Resolution for the old years was to let it loose, this year's to reel it back in

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