poetry

SIMPLE THINGS
Stuart Murdoch

If you want me I'll be there
A boy to deal with all your problems
but part of the deal, is
for you to feel something

If you want to look me up
I don't exist in usual places
Subtle as the wind is grey

If you want me you know where I am
I saw your arms in a dream
and there were blue veins blue

If you want me all you have to do
is ask a thousand questions
triplicate and file under
"simple things to make a young boy sigh"

SLEEP THE CLOCK AROUND
Stuart Murdoch

And the moment will come, when composure returns
Put a face on the world, turn your back to the wall
and you walk twenty yards, with your head in the air
down the Liberty Hill, where the fashion brigade
Look with curious eyes on your raggedy way
and for once in your life, you got nothing to say
and could this be the time when somebody will come
To say "Look at yourself, your not much use to anyone"

Take a walk in the park, take a valium pill,
read the letter you got, from the memory girl,
but it takes more than this to make sense of the day
yeah it takes more than milk to get rid of the taste
and you trusted to this, and you trusted to that
and when you saw it all come, it was waving the flag
of the United States of Calamity, hey!
After all that you've done boy, I'm sure your gonna pay.

In the morning you come to the ladies salon
to get all fitted out for the Paperback Throne
but the people are living far away from the place
where you wanted to help, its a bit of a waste
and the puzzle will last till somebody will say
"thers alot to be done, whilw your head is still young"
if you put down the pen, and leave your worries behind
Then the moment will come and the memory will shine
now the trouble is over, everybody got paid
Everybody is happy, they are glad that they came
then you go to the place, where you finally found
you can look at yourself, and sleep the clock around

EMPTY
Dolores O'Riordan

Something has left my life and I don't know where it went to..
somebody has caused me strife and it's not what I was seeking.
Did you see me? Did you hear me?
Did you see me standing there?
Why didn't you turn out the lights did you know that I was sleeping?

Say a prayer for me
help me to feel the strength I did

My identity, has it been taken?
Is my heart breaking on me?
All of my plans, they fell thru my hands, fell thru my hands
they fell
And then all of my dreams, it suddenly seems
Empty

DAFFODIL LAMENT
Dolores O'Riordan

Holding on thats what I do
since i met you
And it won't be long
till you notice, if I left you
and its fun some some
cause your not the one
you not the one there

All night long
layed on my pillow
these things are wrong
I can't sleep here

So lonely, so lonely
I have decided to leave you forever
I have decided to start things from here.
Thunder and lightning won't change what i'm feeling
and the daffodils look lovely today

In your eyes I can see the disguise,
in your eyes I can see the dismay
has anyone seen lightning?
has anyone looked lovely?
And the daffodils looked lovely today
lookd lovely

DREAMS
Dolores O'Riordan

Oh my life
is changing everyday
in every possible way
and oh my dreams
it's never quite as it seems
never quite as it seems
I know i've felt like this before
now i'm feeling it even more
because it came from you
and then I open up and see
the person falling here is me
a different way to be
I want more, impossible to ignore
and they'll come true impossible not to do
And now I tell you openly
you have my heart so don't hurt me
you're what I couldn't find
A totally amazing mind
so understanding and so kind
You're everything to me

IS IT WICKED NOT TO CARE?
Isobel Campbell

Is it wicked not to care when they say that your mistaken
Thinking hopes and lots of dreams that aren't there?
is it wicked not to care when you've wasted many hours
Talking endlessly to anyone thats there?

I know the truth awaits me
But still I hesitate because of fear

Skipping tickeys making rhymes
is that all that you believe in?
Wearing rags to make you pretty by design
rusting armour for effect
it's not fun to watch the rust grow
for it will all be over when your dead

counting acts and clutching thoughts
by the river where the moss grows
over rocks the water running all the time
is it wicked when you smile
Even though you feel like cying
Even though you could be sick at any time?

But if there was a sequal
would you love me as an equal?
would you love me till I'm dead?
Or is there someone else instead?

EASE YOUR FEET IN THE SEA
Stuart Murdoch

Ease your feet off in the sea
my darling its the place to be
take your shoes off curl your toes
and I will frame this moment in time
troubles come and troubles go
the trouble that we used to know
will stay with us till we get old
will stay with us till somebody decides to go

Soberly, without regret, I make another sandwich
and I fill my face, I know that things have got to you
but what can I do?
suddenly without a warning
on a ple blue morning
you decide your time is wearing thin
A conscious choice to let yourself go dangling
hovering, its an emergency!
there's no more "wait and see"

Maybe if I shut my eyes
your trouble will be split between us
people come and people go
you're scouring everybodies face
for some small flicker of the truth
to what it is that you are going thru, my boy
I left you dry
the signs were clear that you were not going anywhere
anywhere
save for a falling down
everything's going wrong

Later on, as I walked home,
the plough was showing , and Orion
I could see the house where you lived
I could see the house where you gave
all your time and sanity to people
then you waited for the people to acknowledge you
they spoke in turn
but there eyes would pass over you
over you
Who's seeing you at all?

WANTED
Dolores O'Roirdan

Sitting in an armchair
my head between my hands
I wouldn't have to feel like this
if you'd only understand
too many misunderstandings
causing such delay
and if it doesn't work like this
well, i'll try another way
If this is the way you wanted it
oh, I didn't understand
you know that all I wanted was
to be there by your side
and if you didn't want it
well, you shouldn't have denied
you knew that you were someone special
right from the start
And if you treat me badly
then we are better off apart
if this is the way you wanted it
oh, I didn't understand...