Shorn of faith Too bloody serious Dipped a toe in the sea Not funny, just cold, just cold These gadgets do not help… or do they? I certainly feel very connected and in touch. So the absence of attention from people who are not listening is more noticeable. I will fight to improve my share…
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and on and on and
and on and on and. pulled from the crowd, blessings beseached now get back to your seat the very most reverend, getting irrelevant but not on this watch a space where we tie our laces and learn how to count suspicious and statistically out of the picture crouched down but the spring in our step…
Get Over It…
It’s just a placeholder. Somewhere a header and beneath a footer and between and betwixt some random stumbling. He has been pottering around of late, tangled in the usual threads of fancy, maybe pedantic, maybe procrastinating, certainly diffused and confused and settling into old ways with poor manners. The winter this year has come upon…
Shored Up
On the Eastern side of the wood, with the sun just gone down over the hill. The rock is wet and cold and slippy, a bare line of slate ninety degrees to the shore, and well away from the path. I know it because I was here before, and skidded across its surface many times,…
Clamour
Unused to this cold, and unused to this swing of things. A simple patchwork man, more breath and less reason. A country that has thrown off its clothes and sanity, running cursed between the cars of a real capital. Not like our capital, our soft and embarrassed low fixtures Our double-chinned talkers and stricken lenders.…
Just to Say
Just to say, in some other way, With music in my ears, And raindrops light as tears Today, today. The boiler abruptly stops, the dryer’s rumbling ceases. The dishwasher sloshes to a halt, the microwave beeps and then. Domestic silence finally. With nothing to add, the shadow-dragging man wanders the cold nights. Closed hands in…
Look Alive
Demo (snippet): [audio:http://donalkelly.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/lookAlive.mp3|titles=Look Alive] you’re so worn out everybody look alive everybody look alive everybody look alive you come, you come you’re too worn out you won you won I know I know everybody look alive everybody look alive everybody look alive
Star Reaching Preachin
demo: [audio:http://donalkelly.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/starReachingPreaching.mp3|titles=Star Reaching Preaching] Keep it in order Keep on the border Keep it for me and I will need no other. Ready for motion. Ready devotion. Ready to try your latest ‘Drink Me’ potion. I know it’s under- understood, that this situation is no good. I know it’s over- over-done, this Deja Vu is…
The Blank Slate
Demo: [audio:http://donalkelly.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/BlankSlate.mp3|titles=Blank Slate] It’s a long wait, for the blank slate, to begin to, make ammends to everybody talking, without cables, disconnected, unaffected, wishing they were alright- not so uptight, not so clued out, not so ignorant, telling others’ stories going global, going postal, going everywhere and anywhere broken, understatement, needs replacement, needs a long…
Detour
Demo: [audio:http://donalkelly.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/detour.mp3|titles=Detour] chords: strum each couplet 8 times quickly d 4 5 2 0 a 5 7 3 2 chorus: C G e 3 3 b 0 0 g 0 0 d 2 0 a 3 2 e – 3 I’m going all the way back home, I’m going to make it there alone. I’ll…
Not Finished Yet
Chords: A E (with 0-3-0 Hon/Poff on the A string) Then C D for the ‘chorus’ Demo: [audio:http://donalkelly.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/NotFinishedYet.mp3|titles=Not Finished Yet] World on your shoulders Weight on your chest. Getting ever older, But you’re not finished yet. They say it’s gone, stay calm, right? Words on the airwaves, Longest sentence yet. Spent more than you’ll ever…
The Lease
We are not owners. Despite the forms you just filled out. Despite the full support of the finest judges. The money in your pockets. The land outside your door. The car in your driveway. The heart in your chest. You do not own, When it comes to rest. What makes you think You are a…
Limbo Bimbo
Demo: [audio:http://donalkelly.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/limboTown.mp3|titles=Limbo Town] There’s ghosts out in the ocean, enough to make it swell. And the waves they go a rolling, from heaven down to hell. I know I’m not alone here, wonder if I’m under some spell? I know I’m not alone here- I wonder if I’m under some spell? Now there’s postcards in…
All Tracks Lead to Hear
Demo: [audio:http://donalkelly.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/allTracks.mp3|titles=All Tracks Lead to Here] In the image of a love, a parody of plainness, I was knocking around, suffering from sameness. On an edge, on a corner, on a line. Now the sun is raised up, over ruins in back yards. That centuries ago, laid low by old hands. In a flash, in…
Your Life
Demo: [audio:http://donalkelly.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/noOption.mp3|titles=Your Life] Here is nothing if it makes you want to go, Is nothing if it makes you want to leave to get away and feel alive. I say nothing and I’m rooted to the spot, Say nothing while you’re standing in the doorway looking like the road is on your mind. And oh,…
Worth
I can’t quite put my finger on it. The value of what’s in my hands I guess. I look away to see what others pick. Can’t accept that they might pay something less. The word on the wire is all so relative. A reference point is nowhere to be seen. The labels on loves are…
Amnesia
[audio:http://donalkelly.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/amnesia2.mp3|titles=amnesia2] And it won’t go right away It won’t go anyhow Can’t forget what has been said Or bury everyone in sand Streets are crossing through my head Traffic jams at every bend. Roads converge in tangled webs Lights go green and then go red. You can go build some walls Experiment with your architecture…
Stolen March
I don’t know the when and where I’ll find you then and meet you there In the end it’s all the same Stolen march and borrowed fame. I folded it and passed it on, A paper declaration of, my doubt Take a chance and stick to it, you never know where you might get, or…
(In) Memory of a Goldfish
have to lose to want to get space travel for dummies space travel for life the ether in my brain is candy floss the crystals in my soul are stolen you either know or not and I’m lost the jump-starts of the heart at cost now it made sense for a moment suspended between infinities…
about face
Find yourself in the unfamiliar the foreign, the other… Find what, exactly? Bloody changes changing changed Welcome welcome sit and beat and rearrange Can’t help myself the way it goes Give it up until it shows Easy in and never out, That’s they way you get about Why am I wired to wear this way,…