Return to Liberty

Return to Liberty 

The stranger rode into the town...

His journey here... To burn it down

Revenge for what its people did

And all the lies they hid

The painted sign read "Liberty"

A liars name that he could see

Where hidden in its "freedom" claim

It's people we're to blame

The rider who had travelled far

He walked into the crowded bar

Where every head did turn his way...

And every head would pay

The barman filled a whiskey glass

In shaky voice he dared to ask

"Where you from?" the old man spoke

The stranger lit a smoke

He turned and walked right out the door

As Talking's not what he came for

He strolled toward the sheriffs den

Surrounded by four men

Well... 

The four men they began to laugh

Which became their own epitaph 

The stranger pulled his 45

Not one was left alive

Before the sheriff grabbed his gun

The strangers work had now begun

He pointed Colt to sheriffs head...

Then shot the law man dead

Blood flowed on the wooden floor

An outlaw now walked out the door

Many men now laid in wait

To kill this man of hate

He filled the chamber, took his aim

Pointed to each man of blame

Pistol smoke then filled the air

Lives were ended... Then and there

As each and every gun was raised

That life was over, soon erased 

Yet every bullet fired his way

Proved karma rode with him today

Amidst the rapid gunfire sound

The guilty fell to ground

His barrel smoked from over kill

Again the chamber he did fill

He walked back to the empty bar

And threw across the room a star

The barman passed the man a drink

Stared at the face... And tried to think

He placed the man... This man had hung

All accusations wrong

The town had set the wrong man free

And in this place called Liberty

A ghostly figure had returned

As Liberty... then burned

Like the breeze that blew the dust

The stranger came and then was lost

And only orange sky did shine

Upon the painted sign

"What Happened?"

"What Happened?" 

"Ridiculous I tell you"

This world has gone quite mad

It's nothing like the golden times

Today seems rather sad

Gone are all the good times

All discipline is lost

Everything that once was great

Now sits and gathers dust

Look around and tell me 

That our lives are better now!

That technology improves our world

Explain to me... Just how?

As all I see is ignorance 

And everything seems wrong

Texts now our speaking form

A thumb replaced a tongue

"Where are all the children?"

They just stare at screens and hide

Exercise is for the old

Its them that go outside

Breathing in pollution 

From the cars that cough their fumes

"Hmmm... 

Maybe that's why all the children

Stay inside their rooms!"

"What happened?"

Everything has gone!

Even summers long ago

Once guaranteed the sun

Now it hides redundant

And nobody seems to care

A future looks uncertain

In this world we cannot share

"It's ridiculous I tell you"

This world is far from better

You can't compare a bleeping text

To the romance of a letter

But things are now so different

Just look around and see

I look and wonder what went wrong?

When so right things used to be

From Then... To Now

From Then... To Now

So today is the day I reach my fiftieth year

From my birth and the times in between 

In those fifty years, well... I should have learnt something!

From all the things that I've done and I've seen!

I see fifty as a strange kind of blessing 

As being born  "fucked ups" prodigal son

I returned to depression on many a time

Never thinking id reach twenty-one!

By rights I should not really be here

But my appointments were cancelled you see

In youth I tried desperately to end all the crap

But even god turned his back upon me

Then before I knew it... I was twenty-one plus

In a time I spent mostly in haze

Pills and a bottle becoming my friends

In those darkening, desolate days

In my thirties my life, well... It had to change

As i had children depending on me

My life now made sense for the very first time

As my eyes had been opened to see

And then forty it just came a-tumbling along

With it's mythical "life begins now!"

My journey no longer an obstacle course  

How I got it here, I'll never know how!

But fifty IS here, and I feel so alive

Unlike that kid who had nothing but tears?

With age I have learned I am happy in life...

And cant wait for my following years

Tantrums

Tantrums 

"Begone" said the wind to the leaves on the tree

"That rustling of yours, it is bothering me"

The leaves spiralled down to the soil on the ground

Scattered on earth, they danced without sound

"Begone" said the wind to the branches of the tree

"That creaking you make, it is grinding on me"

The branches broke down and they cracked and they groaned

Falling to earth they collided and moaned

"Begone" said the wind to the grandest of tree

"You are not strong enough to face the tantrums of me"

The tree stood its ground and it's roots bedded in

The wind could not penetrate the rough rugged skin

"Begone" said the tree to the wind overhead

The wind not amused at the words that were said

It ran out of puff... as the tree stood up tall

Defying the wind... and refusing to fall

You're Not Here

You're Not Here

I try to see you through the teardrops in my eyes

I cannot find you... But that comes as no surprise 

As you're not here!

No... No... No... You're not here

I try to touch you like I've done a thousand times

But now there's space that fills these lonely hands of mine

Because you're not here!

No... No... No... You're not here

Without you here...

I walk the streets at night, my mind unclear

Searching... As if you might just suddenly appear

Amongst the stars... Will I see you again?

Where I once found you... Dancing here in the rain

... But you're not here, you're not here... Did you just disappear?

I try to hear the words you breathed within my ear

Those gentle words of love you whispered so sincere 

But their not here!

No... No... No... I can't hear

I try to feel my heart, it's rhythm out of beat

Without you... it's recital, incomplete

And you're not here!

No... No... No... nowhere near

Without you here...

I walk the streets at night, my mind unclear

Searching... As if you might just somehow re-appear

Under the stars... In my arms once again

I reach out for you... But i catch only rain

... As you're not here, you're not here... You have gone... Far from here

Forever... Not time

Forever... Not Time

She covers the parts she doesn't like me to see 

Yet ignores the lines that are covering me

She lays on the bed in the flickering light

A candle in darkness she needs to feel right

But she... Looks like an angel to me

With who I'm gifted to be, in the presence of she

And I... See the love in her eyes

Thoughts she cannot disguise, as she lies here with me

She smiles and she whispers and breathes in my ear

Surely in heaven with her I am here

The touch of her lips and the glint in her eye

Can only compare to a velvety sky

And she... Looks so precious to me

Here she's chosen to be, wrapped in these arms of mine

And I... I just want her to stay

See her first everyday, 'til the end of all time

She pulls herself close and I hold her so near

I whisper my thoughts so she knows not to fear

She has no need to worry "My heartbeat is true...

As it's rhythm beats only in times spent with you"

As she... Is a goddess to me

The only woman I see, with these eyes that are mine

And I... I just need her to know

I will never let go...  We have forever... not time

A World Mapped Out

A World Mapped Out 

I study the poster that highlights my wall

A map of the world and the home of us all

A place of such Beauty with so much to see

I imagine the places where I'd like to be

You see... My home is a pin prick 

Unnoticed by most

It has nothing to prove, not a thing it can boast

In fact its forgotten, when once it did shine

This island now lost in a different time

I gaze to America, the land of the free

A place so imprisoned, it's lost it's own key

Their fighting shall end with an enemy bigger

As they storm into heaven with hands on the trigger

I travel to Russia, whose heart has been sold

A place so depressing and violently cold

It's people so hard that they can't even smile

So rigid in form that they march every mile

The land of the Muslims will bring its own fate

The god that they bow too has filled them with hate

"How can a man not be in love with his wife?"

"And not give a damn for his own precious life?"

I move to Canada, a place that holds hope

But joined to American it may hang by their rope

As this beautiful place that is perfectly green

Can be easily made as unclean

Germany stands with the harshest of tongues

Its history remembered from all of its wrongs

I wonder... How could a nation consider the choice?

And follow the nightmares of a maniacs voice

I find Jerusalem, the land of all wars

How many have died and religion the cause?

This biblical land that has cried many tears

Surely punished enough over thousands of years

England the mighty that stands ever tall

The bricks of an empire designed not to fall

Now lies from its leaders so neatly suppressed 

Puts a proudest of people to test

My eyes travel too far...

I hang on a ledge

One blink more and I'll fall off the edge

A world mapped out is the sorriest sight

As nothing within it is right!

My picture seems bleak... is there anyplace good?

I started out dreaming, where I'd go if I could

But my eyes keep returning to a pin prick alone

My tiny, once beautiful home