Love is Easy

Aside from just random musings and prose, from time to time I will be posting lyrics of songs I've written. A song pretty much is a poem set to music anyway so it's not too far of a stretch. Plus, if you never come to see me play, you'll never get to hear the words...but maybe, just maybe, if you like the lyrics, you may need to see it performed! Regardless…once I’m done writing them, unless I share, they’re pretty useless to me so perhaps you or someone else will find them useful.


In honor of my birthday I am posting a song that details a large portion of my life and the people responsible for it.  If you’d like to submit a complaint, write me and I’ll give you their address. While I am only referenced twice in passing, if characters and stories have arcs, then our two protagonists and this story are the sun that revolves around my belief in / capacity for Love. It may delve into the dark at points but Love has never and will never be easy, erase that fairy tale from your mind immediately or suffer your own wrath. Love is not a fix-all or a destination you finally arrive at. I’d liken it more to…the best umbrella you ever saw.  It may be the greatest damn umbrella known to man but let’s face it, given the storms you are going to have to weather, you are still going to get wet, you’re still going to get cold and every now and then the wind is going to blow that thing inside-out and you’ll have to get a new one, can’t be helped.  Expectation, at the feet of fallen intentions, quickly turns on everyone in the vicinity like a family dog gone rabid.  Love doesn’t make the bad disappear, it gives you an elevated view of it.

Now that I’ve sufficiently slathered you in metaphor, enjoy!

Love is Easy

Oh, she held tight her eyes
tryin’ to hold back sunrise.
She say’s, “I can’t tell who you are going to be today
and I don’t know where I will be tomorrow.

I’m in love with a man,
woh oh
if he’s not here,
I don’t think I can.”


Sunrise to starlight,
the whole house goes dark,
save
a nightlight.

She was hearts, he was wild
out on the Dixie port tiles.
He wore a heart twist with rage t’keep him spinnin’ round.
One touch of her grace…
he slowed down.

Bridge-

“I know everything changes
but nothing
on the walls
warned of this day.”

Refrain-

“I’ll try to make it easier
to love me like you wanted to.
It’s just that I never bend,
it’s always been
the part of me that’s true.

But, I promise you
these changes we are going through.
They’re as real as I’ve ever felt.
I never fell
as hard as I’ve with you.”


 “I’ve seen 20 years go by
since you first filled up my life.
Oh, the world for your smile,
while we lay rest with our child.

I’m a hard man I know
but worth fighting for.
I was drowning inside,
my heart’s still on fire.
Oh, I would never let you go,
I could never make you stay.
I wanna give love to you darling.
Don’t know what else I could say…”

Bridge-

“…but
oh, I know everything changes
but it doesn’t
work
right!
If you’re not with me.”

Refrain-

“I’m gonna make it easier
to love me like you wanted to.
It’s just that I never bend,
it’s always been
the part of me that’s true.

Oh,
I promise you
these changes we are going through,
they’re as real as I’ve ever felt
and I never fell
as hard as I’ve with you.

And if you want me to
I’ll tear down these walls for you.
You held me in my darkest night,
here comes the light,
I shine when I’m with you.”

“It’s gonna be easy.”

 I took this picture at the Sutro cliffs trying to catch the sunlight and ended up with the old couple by accident.  Awesome accident....that should be a band name!