Archive for September, 2016
September 30, 2016
In headaches and in worry
Vaguely life leaks away,
And Time will have his fancy
To-morrow or to-day.
—W.H. Auden, As I Walked Out One Evening
Walking down the street
Going nowhere
Nothing to look forward to
Nobody to care
Big cloud of empty
Hanging in the air
Life is just
A rotten stupid
Maggot-breeding scam
I’m tired and I’m sick
Of everything I am
Can’t stagger through
Another dragging day
None of my plans
Ended up this way
Days bleed into weeks
And life drifts away
Life is just
A rotten stupid
Maggot-breeding scam
I’m tired and I’m sick
Of everything I am
by Richard W. Bray
Tags:As I Walked Out One Evening, country music, Country Music Lyrics, Edward Hopper, lyrics, sad songs, W.H. Auden
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September 26, 2016
Love’s not easy
Love’s not free
It takes a toll on
You and me
I’m not stupid
I’m not blind
I know that sometimes
You’re unkind
Love’s not heaven
Love’s not God
Love is painful
Love is odd
I’m not a dreamer
Just a girl
I know that you
Can’t fix the world
Love’s a chance
For me to cope
Love’s a place
To perch my hope
by Richard W. Bray
Tags:Hope is the thing with feathers, love poems, love songs, Poetry
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September 24, 2016
Science is a tool
That advances certain tasks
But you won’t find the Truth
In a beaker or a flask
Science is a tool
It’s a process or technique
But science makes a fool
When it’s wisdom that you seek
Science is a tool
Like a hammer or a knife
Not a creed, nor a school
Nor a philosophy of life
Science is a tool
That can foster gross infection
In the minds of crazy ghouls
With dreams of mass perfection
by Richard W. Bray
Tags:Atheism, jerks who give atheism a bad name, Richard Dawkins, The Birthmark, Truth Value
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September 18, 2016
Don’t owe the world an explanation
For all the things I’ve done
I won’t assist your calculation
Who to love and who to shun
Don’t owe the world an explanation
I don’t have to pass your test
Not here to seek evaluation
I just wish everyone the best
Don’t owe the world an explanation
I’ve known love and I’ve known pain
And your morality fixation
Lives and dies inside your brain
Don’t owe the world an explanation
You do your thing; I do mine
You can take your allegations
And stick em where the sun don’t shine
Don’t owe the world an explanation
Why I do the things I do
Lord knows my ultimate salvation–
It ain’t really up to you
by Richard W. Bray
Tags:country music, Country Music Lyrics, lyrics
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September 17, 2016
Resentment rots your innards
And desiccates your soul
Rooting for destruction
Takes a mighty toll
Take a deep breath
And let it out slow
Think about your anger
And try and let go
Hatred is a monster
That you don’t have to feed
It cuts in both directions
And makes the hater bleed
Take a deep breath
And let it out slow
Think about your anger
And try and let go
Are you feeling jealous?
Is your life incomplete?
Are you searching for a scapegoat
In everyone you meet?
Take a deep breath
And let it out slow
Think about your anger
And try and let go
Resentment is a poison
Like the twelve-steppers say
Resist its lethal logic
And pour it down the drain
Take a deep breath
And let it out slow
Think about your anger
And try and let go
by Richard W. Bray
Tags:country music, Country Music Lyrics, lyrics, resentment, yoga. meditation
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September 11, 2016
Stoners are stupid
They can’t find their keys
Dropping cold cash
To make their synapses freeze
Stoners are stupid
Think they’re keeping it real
Spinning round their brains
Like a hamster in a wheel
Stoners are stupid
They wake and they bake
Losing half the day
Till there’s another toke to take
Stoners are stupid
Thinking squares are just haters
Crawl into a haze
Then it’s twenty years later
Stoners are stupid
Getting dumber every day
The older they get
The more their brains melt away
by Richard W. Bray
Tags:country music, Country Music Lyrics, lyrics, stoners, Substance Abuse
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September 11, 2016
I’m the same old trouble that you’ve always been through
So why don’t you love me like you used to do?
—Hank Williams
Tell me what I did
Tell me what I said
How did I get exiled
And banished from your bed?
Never had the guts to dream
Your love would come my way
As soon as I believed it
It melted all away
Our love was like an island
In an ocean full of sad
I was drowning when I met you
You were everything I had
The fool who said it’s better
To love and then to lose
Never loved on borrowed time
And lost someone like you
Tell me what to say
Tell me what to do
I’d do anything you want
To get back to me and you
by Richard W. Bray
Tags:country music, Country Music Lyrics, Hank Williams, love songs, lyrics, sad songs, Why don't you love me?
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September 5, 2016
I must have been mad
I never knew what I had
Until I threw it all away.
—Bob Dylan
I’ve walked away from love
And hurt a lovely girl
I’ve turned my back on everything
That matters in this world
I’ve walked away from love
When it still had room to grow
Where it might have taken us
I’ll never ever know
I’ve walked away from love
I’ve run and I have hid
It doesn’t really kill you
But it makes you wish it did
I’ve done a lot of stupid things
Someday I’ll make a list
But nothing hurts like giving up
The sweetest ever kiss
by Richard W. Bray
Tags:Bob Dylan, country music, Country Music Lyrics, love songs, lyrics, sad songs
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