2021/09/05

Those days

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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