Well, Lockdown is over for now and I'm back at work.
Nonetheless the days I spent in confinement have given me time to reflect on things a little bit. So I've decided to write a few more lines of poetry. This time and for the first time laid out as a song, rather than just a poem, which should have been the case all along. Anyways, since I don't have any instruments at the moment, and since my musical talent is rather limited anyways, here's a song without a melody.
Should any talented musicians be reading this: Fell free to write a melody to go along with this! I'm not so happy with the chorus, but that can always be changed...
For this one I have drawn influence from a variety of artists, as diverse as Punk band 'Green Day' to Irish rock band 'Flogging Molly' and my recent (re)discovery of Shane MacGowan and 'The Pogues' to Lou Reed and 'Suede'... And I've inadvertently written the bridge to the melody of 'Heaven' by Bryan Adams. And there is of course the ever present influence of the lyrical marvel Bob Dylan.
Anyways, this one is about (high)school sweethearts. Didn't we all have one or several? There are those where we are glad it didn't work out, there are those where it has worked out and we are happy together, and then there are those where we wonder "What if...?" This one is about the latter kind:
Walking down this lonely road
And I feel the cold wind blow
Thinking of the days long gone
Trying to find a spot of sun
And I watch the river flow
Have on my mind this tow'ring load
(So don't let me walk in shadows anymore
Cause I wanna know if you still remember me?
Or have you forgotten me forevermore?
Oh, we were so young, beautiful and free...)
And I gaze in windows lit
I see happy people smile
And the homeless in despair
Saying another futile prayer...
And I walk another mile
It's only myself I kid
“
Oh, I remember those days in school
When I thought you were so cool
Hanging out on those hot summer days
Oh, your moves they had such grace
You said 'No!' when I asked you to dance
And so I've blown my chance...
So I keep walking down my road
And you're walking down your own
And I hope you're happy there
And I'll say a silent prayer
I shall reap what I have sown
And I'll carry my own load
“
And yet I remember you
And I always will
And I wonder if you too
Think about me still?
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