Last Train

standin'in the road alone

 

I

 

see trains passin' by

 

I

 

don't know which one to take, don't know which way to go

 

Im

 

sad an' out of control

 

 

I

 

must make an effort, to pull myself together

there's

 

a

 

faint smell in the air, must be the turn of the weather

 

I'll

 

take

 

my

 

chances

whatever

 

 

 

I

 

lost too much of my life, it's shaken up startin' to slide

 

 

decisions

 are to be taken now

 

somethin' died in me today

 

I

 

must take it lyin' down

 

 

last train

 

is

 

at

 

the

 

station

 

 

I'll

 

take it got no explanation

 

it's

 

takin' me in to a future, I don't know much about

 

 

train's leavin'

 

I'm

 

checkin'

 

out

 

(c)  JR.

Blues

 

 

 

 

i

 

love the night life, in the dark corners

 

and

 

shades of night, where we find a piano playin

 

the

 

piano blues, bluer than life it self

 

 

 

 

driven

 

 

by 

 

a

 

burning ambition

 

leadin me in to temptation, with those haunting melodies

 

 

bound

 

by

 

dark desires

 

she's no hunter, she lets me go, blues surround her old piano

 

 

the

 

lights have an pale old glow

 

smoke cuts through shady places, like a wall hard to see through

 

 

blues

 

were never that good

 

whatever the menue, it's the blues

 

whatever her fancy it is to be blue

 

 

her

 

melodies ar rich in words and lonely without them

 

she

 

gives them het attention when she plays her piano

 

softly, teasing,  sometimes even a rising gale

 

 

she

 

takes what's on the menue, she lives under a blue moon

 

she

 

has the blues in a tight embrace, she loves the blues like her

 

own

 

sweet old lace

 

she's always in a blue

 

 haze

 

 

 

(c) JR.

Spitting kiss

a

 

woman to kiss is what I missed

 

 

always

 

wait 'till dark, kiss will come by itself

 

protected

 

by

 

an

old oak tree

 

with

 

your glasses on you kissed and missed me

 

hitting the tree

 

as

far as I can tell my ear was hit as well

 

it

 

was dribblin' wet, before I could say

 

 

'wrong place Beth '

 

 

 

she started over, neck, eyes, anything near by

 

couldn't  see the sky, my vieuw was blocked by a wholle lot of spit

 

 

kiss of a woman, yes kiss of a woman

 

I

 

missed

 

 

 

always wanted to be soakin' wet

 

have

 

a

 

worn out face, lips frayed at the dge my towel will have me dry yet

 

 

but

 

what a surprise, it's going on all the time

 

gettin' more

 

I

 

will ever need, some treat better she'll never be

 

finding new spots ev'rytime

 

kiss

 

of

 

a

woman yes kiss of a woman

 

is

 

what

 I

missed

 

 

 

(c) JR.

Dark Glasses

when

 

I

 

slide my dark glasses on, ev'rything changes in my room

 

in

 

 to

 

a

 

warm, old, friendly brown

 

there

 

are many shades of light, mine to be the shade of twilight

 

when

 

I

 

leave my surroundings I slide my dark glasses off

 

and

 

return to a bright lit world

 

 

yes

 

slide 'em on these dark brown glasses

 

they

 

take you in to a new world, where music, women and wine

 

are

 

the

 

benefiting trade down here

 

stay

 

there a litle while if you like, enjoy it to its most if you know how

 

make

 

yourself at home where the blues roam

 

stay

 

awake in the midst of the night, hear the sound of laughter ring

 

hear

 

the sound of toasting glasses, caress the walls of your surroundings

 

 

you're

 

the

 

talk of the town throughout, many faces wear a frown

 

of

 

what you might be doin' here in the little hours of the tranquil night

 

 

you're

 

invited to take a deeper insight, relax, ev'rybody here is allright

 

tonight

 

 

 

 

they

 

all

 

wear the same dark glasses , they're all here for a good time

 

they

 

don't expect you to go 'till light

 

so

 

sing alittle, talk a little, kiss a little

 

and

 

do

 

take your time in to the twilight and when you go home take off the shades

 

it'll

 

take you back to the room you came from

 

it'll

 

take you back to reality

 

again

 

 

(c) JR.

Like to read

love

 

to

 

read in my own time

 

I

 

need to know what's goin' on down the road all the time

 

 

it's

 

a way of life that has to be satisfied

 

and

 

I

 

want to know it all

 

 

read what's there to tell, sometimes it rings a bell

 

 

the

 

story they tell I know it all to well

 

it's about myself it is so crystal clear, I must have been here

 

come through a door opened years before

 

 

I,

I

 

didn't know I was on show

 

my

 

tale had been told, it's all in here to read

 

 

I

 

can't believe it's about me, 'cause I wasn't there

 

has been written in another time, that's the answer to me

 

 

so

 

I

 

read,  and read it well

 

first

 

person to know how life's gonna be

 

when

 

i

 

finish I wonder are there more like this

 

'cause it doesn't give  all the answers how a life

 

has to be lived

 

there

 

must be more people like me who like to read

 

come

 

across a story they can hardly believe

 

what it is they read when they understand they know they're

 

the

 

few chosen  that get a look

 

ahead

 

and

 

know what life's gonna be

 

 

(c) JR.



Looks like yesterday

clouds are breakin', sun's touchin' my face

 

standin' in the window, I hear it tearin''  at the frame

 

it's

 

wantin' to see inside

 

where emptiness is awake, 'cause you went when I slept

 

leaving me with a note, a reminder I failed

 

and

 

nothin'

 

remained

 

 

just one of those things, happens ev'rytime

 

startin' out to win, we ran out of time

 

and

 

time

 

creates and seperates as it has now

 

 

 

he'd been waitin' such a long time, you felt you owed him

 

your life

 

 

 

lookin' back it seems only yesterday

 

we

 

promised faith

 

yes

 

it

 

looks like yesterday

 

so

 

now I want to feel good, throw a switch

 

hear old music, but it doesn't give me that old feelin'

 

again

 

somehow it sounds different

 

if

 

it

 

doesn't want to be played, I'm searchin' for reasons

 

as

 

always I find a lot, none of them so serious

 

they coudn't be solved, looks like yesterday she made me believe

 

she'd never leave

 

 

she

 

up an' went when I slept, leavin' me a note

 

with

 

a

 

lot of reasons I never knew we had

 

 

looks like yesterday, she lay next to me

 

lyin' back in to arms, takin' a rest, still she went when I slept

 

destroying my confidence

 

in

 

whatever came next

 

 

(c) JR.

River Deep Mountain High English version

 

 

bein',

 

barely twenty I was cast down at the edge of my own abyss,

 

 hangin'

 

on,

 

just

 

 

runnin' its gauntlet ev'ryday, swimmin' in the dreg

 

of

 

its

 

ebb

 

 

smothered by the waves of its tide

 

 

 

kickin'  an' growlin'at the immobillity

 

that's

 

stoppin'

 

you

 

is

 

there still one thing drivin' you on

 

the

 

drive

 

of 

 

 'survival'

 

your conquest over mind an' time, the faillure of a hammered

 

body

 

guarantees, are none or just lost in time

 

one

 

word

 

keeps

 

comin' to mind

 

 

"Survival '

 

somethin' I never heard of or did

 

I

 

but

 

it's all you have, nothin' more, nothin' less, with time pressin' on

 

and

 

where

recovery is a withered leaf hangin' in the wind

 

with

 

that thought in mind, its creation is yours to have

 

 

the

 

future

 

a

 

vision in time, a next day its only purpose

 

and

 

your

 

'Survival '

 

always,  a case of dyin'  cryin' out for you ev'ryday

 

your

 

next

 

day

 

a

 

God sent gift never tried

 

days

 

years

 

decades

 

cling  like a cloak all the way

 

a

 

ghost of the past, livin' your yesterday

 

but

 

it's

 

all you have an' ever got

 

 

I

 

hear

 

a

 

tune

 

driftin' in on the wind

 

it's

 

River deep mountain high

 

thinkin',  is this for real, is this meant for me

 

my

 

life

 

a

 

 collection of notes in a once time hit

 

I

 

must have known what I did, without ever knowin' what I did

 

 

it

 

was my salvation

 

what did I miss a lot, yet now not of the importance

 

I

 

got

 

a

 

 second chance, where time is of the essence, bein' it all I've left

 

 

 

so

 

I

 

outlive my days one at a time, enjoy, 'till time overtakes me once again

 

and

 

grants

 

me

 

my

 

peace of mind

 

 

(c) JR.  2017