Showing posts with label lyrics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lyrics. Show all posts

Friday, December 4, 2009

Mrs. Coffee

a song to be sung while brewing coffee...

drip drip drip in the coffee pot
thoughts of you drop in a lot
you opened doors and rang the church bells loud
inside my heart and

i sang you a song
but you did not sing a long
i heard our harmonies
but you did not sing with me

no sugar no cream
i grind the darkest bean
the little bird she lost her wings
on the perfect wind machine

and i sang you a song
but you did not sing along
and i heard our harmonies
but you did not sing with me

you wanted to drink
of my black sea
and you wanted to taste
the strong woman in me

with the tip of your tongue
with the lick of your word
i was hot you were bothered
the higher you rose
the more i fell
you flew to heaven
i swam in hell
but i like the heat
you prefer the cold
if you ever want to drop down below
you know that

i'd sing you a song
and you could sing along
and you'd hear our harmonies
when you sing with me

drip drip drip in the coffee pot

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Wings



Hold me in your arms
Hold me much too tight
Feathers falling out not sure I'll ever fly

Darkness circles in this snowy road
I've been driving in
To the unknown
I've left the steel beams behind me

But I'm still searching...

Searching for eyes that recognize me
And hands open to land
And sky again

Darkness circles in this snowy road
I've been driving in
To the unknown
I've left the steel beams behind me

But I'm still searching, searching for my
Wings

Monday, November 30, 2009

Tree of Life

Painting, "Three Ages of Women" by Gustav Klimt

Lyrics, "Tree of Life" by Jessica Creech
(written for a mother-daughter luncheon on 11-10-2009)
She closes her eyes and puts her hands over them
It’s too much to see
Flowers in her hair blush on her cheeks
Green vines in the air her baby’s sleeping

The leaves aren’t here to stay
The wind carries them away
Watch their beautiful decay

Oh roots you push on in
Deeper in your skin
Find where you begin

Wrinkled skin on bones he’s calling her home
But she’s looking back at all she ever had
Blue and velvet eyes are watching her sighs
And the space between a maiden and a queen

The leaves aren’t here to stay
The wind carries them away
Watch their beautiful decay

Oh roots you push on in
Deeper in her skin
Find where she begins

The child
The daughter
The sister
The mother
The woman
The crone
This flesh and bone
This great unknown
Wisdom cries in the streets

The leaves aren’t here to stay
The wind carries them away
Watch their beautiful decay

Oh roots you push on in
Deeper in your skin
Find where you begin
The leaves aren't here to stay
The wind carries them away