Carousel
"The ponies run, the girls are young,
The odds are there to beat." - LC
I see the girl
I used to be
Spinning round and round.
No one prepared me
For this world
But somehow I learnt
How to reap.
No one can turn back
The hands of time;
Like this carousel,
We just go forward,
Till we get dizzy with the ride.
Hallelujuah - Tribute to Leonard Cohen
You heard the secret cord
You played and pleased the Lord
And made us all care for the music
We heard it from Buckley and Cale
From Watchmen and beyond
But only you could give us
the true Hallelujuah
Hallelujuah
Hallelujuah
Hallelujuah
Hallelujuah
Rest in peace
Leonard Cohen
1934-2016
Hymn
In tribute to Leonard Cohen
I sang the syllables
but I didn't really
understand
I've never been in love
or broken by it
I haven't been in the world
long enough to
know a heart
the ways it aches
and breaks
The radio buzzes with static
cracks with electric heat
The laundry feels rough on the skin
of my hands
flaking and dry
A familiar song
sits in the grass by my side
sinks into my bone marrow
floats in my mouth
My lips open and
beautiful sounds
fall out
Hallelujah.
Traveller
I stayed
with you
in the
Chelsea hotel
on my 8-track
with Imagine
and Blue.
You were the
truest of my
secret friends
with Lennon
and Joni
and my famous
raincoat was
your favourite
colour too.
When times
got tough
and I gunned
the twin webbers
and drove
nowhere much
it was you
who played
the songs
of my youth
that held me
between the
blurred lines
of truth
and sanity.
When you
asked Suzanne
to take you
and she let
the river answer
it whispered
its story and
I travelled too.
Dreaming Of A Hallelujah.
Your poetry comforted me
Your songs just wouldn't let me be
And now I can't do anything for you.
I walked to the Chelsea hotel
Saw you there and rang the bell
But they wouldn't let me through to you.
Had you thrown me on the unmade bed
Cried like a boy when I gave you head
You wouldn't have left me would you.
You were religious that I know
your cries of passion told me so
In my dreams you cried oh God
and I came with you.
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Halleluuuujah .