NOVEMBER EIGHTH

            NOVEMBER EIGHTH

       On November eighth @ten to eleven

       The troops were taking down one by one

       Leaving the navy seal to stand on his own

        Fought them off one at a time toward the

         Hill the hero climbed, as the night’s air

        What’s on the other side, will there be a tomorrow

        Or is this where this American hero lye’s

         Dead on November 8^th without his story

        About how he defeated them alone all 140

       Not aware until his backup paraded down the hill

       He hasn't seen another soul not knowing if he ever will

       They carried out what was left of him, all the townies waved

         As the American hero had fought for them

         Legend has it on November 8^th the falling troops come back

        To solute their hero brother this story has been told

        Many times! But never once though has it been told with tact

        For America to admit our greatest hero was a man who was black

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

    ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

Enough is enough, stop it before it has begun

Have a heart and become the one, don’t accept what he’s done

 Once in your life stand up take a part and tell someone

You've heard it all before, he breaks your arm knocks you to the floor

Don’t become another of his statistics, enough is enough is more realistic

Do not be the one who keeps falling and lies about what he’s done

So deep down believe in who you are don’t let him dictate who you can become

Life has so much more to offer, than the way he’s beating you

Think about all the beatings he’s done, and what a loser he has become

He needs to beat you instead, you promise yourself he’ll never hurt you again

And tomorrow is another day, the beating starts over again, it happens everyday

You dare question his infidelity , he hits you so hard you can barely breathe

Now the truth is out and so are you, never again will he put his hands on you

You and your child have started a new life, he’s searching for you every night

On the outside he’s such a great guy, everyone in town believes his lies

So they help him track you down, and they find you in another town

They threaten to take your kid and you will be having an accident tonight

He’s good at accidents that’s how he fights, he accidentally fell on a knife and lost his life

No one should ever have to fear for your life, fight back and do what’s right, enough is enough

I have so many friends I cannot forgive, after finding out this is the way they live

I have no excuse to their wives but to say I’m sorry, did I close my eyes or was I a dummy

How could I have seen them every day and never seen it coming, a message to all those friend

Enough is enough I say to the way you live, a life of terror well friend we are never again

WITH YOU I'M OK

         WITH YOU I’M OK

 I walk by and you look back Giggling between swigs’ of diet coke

    You had me at hello, so I told another joke you giggled until you choked

Then The room started lighting up when you walk in you’re the perfect side of  angel

 With you I feel safe you’re never in danger I’m OK you break in a conversation

Of us together like me and you forever, because it don’t get no better than this

You know what it is, it’s summer time when the suns starting to unwind

Or an I love you without a sound, you start to call then you remembered

I can hear you when you say nothing at all, like whispering through the wind

Never having to say another word again, because you know, what I think

When I need, when I’m lost and really not me, you’re the side of me I can never be

Being cold when you’re not by my side, saying it’ll be ok when I break down and cry

You’re a little crazy in everything you do, yes baby girl it’s why I’m in love with you

You’re my eyes when I’m feeling blind, you make me soft when I’m feeling kind

I’ll never make it alone, because you complete me like no one, you laugh at my corny jokes

You take time to help out the older folks, you say no when they told you to let me go

Cause you seen you and me in the golden years, and sometimes I’m not who you

Need me to be, so I write down the reasons I don’t need you around

Ok girl you had me at no, because I couldn't write one word down

BATTLING 411

                      BATTLING A 411

She hates me the way she can relates me smacking me till I can’t see

She hates me from my hip to my knee up till I can’t breathe, I don’t like the way did this to me

I don’t get your bucket list it aint free writing down, where your pencil is your fist you’re knocking 

me around, but not like this

 How you burned me in a fire, it makes me feel good that you think I’m a liar

That’s what keeps the flame full of desire you beat me with a nickel plated handle, at the top of my 

head or a little higher it felt like walking through the desert with only one sandal, sun burned my 

hand off

You make a statue burned with a wax candle burning the number of Mickey mantle, I took what’s

 wrong and it wasn't short what was left of me you took to court you spread the word around, I once 

knocked 50cent down

You said it couldn’t be done he was 50 cent now he’s 51 just another night getting your lights  turned

 out you know what I’m talking about or am I to loud

 Your jaw is always barking, lets lay the 411 down, it didn’t happen by chance more by fait

You smoke that shit long enough you turn into a junkie, hopping around like some super fucking 

monkey

We’re not on the playground no more this is for real, not some ole lady looking for a deal

I am what I am and you don’t give a damn, your Scooby and I’m kitty Kat, down from the straight

Its more than I can say, the way I work on the truth and you walk away, I got too much on the line

It doesn’t matter what I say I aint got a dime to my name whatever you need the scores staying the 

same I’m always here

Ask me if I care but you can have whatever you find, I wanted to be there

Turned out to be nutty as a taco you turned out to be ramie and I’m paco I’m done battling down I 

just nailed your ass this round

WITHOUT ME

             WITHOUT ME

You thin k your better off without me

Do you believe everything that you hear?

So you take what you know

As long as it don’t interfere with my flow

With or without me, you’ll make the big show

You go one on one, all the places you told

Not where you want to be, to even your flow

You want me to see everything you know

Understand it’s not a game, it’s a touch n go

Like an old flame the torch is burning low

Before I came, there’s not too much you don’t know

I’ll do what I can, I know we can work it out

I am what I am, and I know what I know

With everything we've been through

A place you called home in the end I’m still alone

Why don’t you write me, or even by phone

The next phase of the text, so I know where to go

From one to another, when it comes to you

I can go on forever, what do you see in him

So I got a gun and moved to the lever

But if I want you back, I need to keep it together

You’re still not over him, he looks like Mighty Quinn

Bring it up and I’ll say it all over again How can this be, it doesn't seem fair

Every bodies moving I’m going no ware

THE BATTLE

               THE BATTLE

Did you hear all that hype their saying about ya?

Not for a moment did I ever doubt ya

You know girl I can’t live without ya

Hip hop battlers are rattling all around ya

Their rapping you looked like BO BO the clown when they did ya ultra sound

You’re parents didn't have ya more like they found ya

 when you're time is over they'll have to mount ya

 now you know I don’t believe a word their saying

That hip hop hood rat crap that their spraying

You got to battle when you're backs against the wall and own you’re respect

Otherwise you'll be nothing after all and this will drive you to get a Uzi tech

And that’s no good it’ll just cause a messy wreck

Battle back because they don’t know who their daddy is

You know this to be true no matter how sad it is

I know you don’t like to speak negative words

But my friend you’ve got respond to what you’ve heard

You know as well as me words aren't always kind

Gots battle back this time otherwise they’ll mess with your mind

Because everyone knows you’re the king of rap battle and you know why

The rap battle is over now it’s time for goodbye

ANNIE MAY I'M MISUNDERSTOOD

 ANNIE MAY I’M MISUNDERSTOOD

 Annie May you’re all I can see

You’re eyes have gone across the country

You've got skin so soft, like, a cloud from heaven

Where I seen my heart last, I've falling in your soul

Falling so deep, where I’m at nobody knows

If I could give my life for just one night

You know I would, so I’m misunderstood

 It doesn't mean you can’t love me

I can be the man you need me to be

Just ask! Because when I’m with you

 I believe I can fly Annie May I’m misunderstood

I’d bring you to heaven if I could

So you can see you belong in the angel in me

I love you’re soft voice reminds me of a newborn

And every time you don’t see me my heart is torn

Torn another thread till I got no more thread to spread

Annie May you will see me, it’s the way life has to be

I watch you on the phone from a distant

So I pretend you’re talking to me while we’re kissing

So give a long shot a chance, you just might find that romance

That you go to bed dreaming you’d find if you could

Annie May I’m misunderstood, Annie May why are you so cold

This stories starting to unfold, Annie May you've gotten no soul

 So I broke down and told you how I felt, you looked right through me

Why can’t we give this a chance, come back to earth if you can

Annie May what’s the temperature in your world?

Sorry to break it to you, too poor to be an uptown girl

Don’t worry don’t be sad we have you back and we’re glad

Glad to know you’re here look my way if you could

Please Annie May I’m misunderstood, a good guy who never had a chance

Annie May giving half a chance I could be you’re man

Suddenly the times have turned, something about you I've learned

You’re blind! You weren't ignoring the pleading of mine

I feel bad to call you cold Annie May you have the warmest soul

Now I see why you've looked through me before

Annie May I’m misunderstood, but you see something they never could

People talk and call us odd couple a blind woman and a half wit

You don’t care because you see something the sighted never could

Thank you Annie May I’m no longer misunderstood

I REALLY MEANT TO LOVE YOU

          I REALLY MEANT TO LOVE YOU

  I really meant to love you

 But put yourself in my shoes

 Thought I could do better

 So I cheated on you

 I’m not perfect I've done some things wrong

 You know it doesn't feel right

It’s something we knew all along

 I really meant to love you, but it was all wrong

 I guess our love wasn't strong enough

You deserve a better man than I could ever be

 Did you ever meant to love me

In time you would have wanted out

 You know what I’m talking about, for me you’re to needy

You need a man that will cater 24/7, I’m more of a guy from 2 to 11

When we’re together it’s like punching a clock

 Being with you felt more like a job, there’s nothing I feel

I really meant to love you, but I couldn't see it through

I really meant to love you, I’m just not the guy for you

CANCER

                  CANCER

  Cancer has stricken everyone I know

  I see it spreading everywhere I go

  Chemo is radiating what’s left of your life

  Would it be better to go under a knife?

   Smoking marijuana just to feel OK

   You must be high for the pain to go away

  Hoping you can put the cancer in remission

   If it doesn't work then hospice is your only decision

  Here we go again another decease we cannot cure

 Wondering if it’s genetic is your biggest fear

Of dying from the most deadly decease

 Weltering away I no longer look like me

STANDING OUT IN THE COLD

  STANDING OUT IN THE COLD

I’m out here doesn't anyone care

I bark for your attention but you are not aware

Sometimes you feed me I have no water for days

In the winter you’re so good to me

WOW!your throwing out a bale of hay

Why do you have me every time I wag my tail and you walk away

I haven’t seen the inside in over two years

Standing frozen in my bale of tears

You don’t even take time to pet me or at least call my name

 you are one animal lover who should be ashamed

I've been in the cold so long my chain is embedded into my neck

The gangrene infection that has set in I’m so far beyond being sick

I have died now three weeks ago, lay to rest was my soul

The worst heartbreaking thought was you didn't even know

A true animal lover with a heart has calling animal control

 you will now know what it’s like to be in a cage where nobody knows or cares

DEJA VU

DEJA VU

I feel like I’m living inside a shell like a movie

A twilight zone where I’m at a place I've already been

 Everyday has become a scenario of a deja vu

Everywhere I go the people around me somehow I know

 Who they are, and their where their suppose to be

But am I, how have I got lost, this place looks familiar to me

And will tomorrow start all over again

There’s neither a moment nor a distant place can make me feel safe

So many times I feel like I’m on the outside looking in

Wondering where this all began and when will this madness end

Why can’t I be the same guy as I was back then? I knew where I was

I start to spin then I feel like I’m falling, never reaching the ground

What’s at the end, is this the place I belong, or was I here all along

My mind has become a picture show, the ending I already know

Because I've been here before, what worlds on the other side of the door

IGNORANCE

              IGNORANCE

 At home they might call him ole smiley

But the rest of the world call him William' Reilly

If he isn't grinning than he is disagreeing

William is the king of racism, if you aint white he don’t see the faces

A fox news anchor who runs the factor, a show to ignore

If you did watch the factor, you won’t any more

His bad attitude act is all portrayed by actors

Because a real man would knock his ass to the floor

His book is number one in the white power line up

Only an ignorant person would consider signing up

I never seen so many ignorant racists at one station

They must all be backwoods brothers’ incest relations

William and Hannity are two of a kind, their intelligence is blind

 Not a brain between them will an American find

I write this poem cause their so damn ignorant

 Any good ideas far between and fairly distant

So if you watch the factor in the near future

You will be amazed by the racist comments, so perverted

Even ignorant people on the show have deserted

All their beliefs and all that they say, the two of them together

 You can’t tell me they’re not gay , the factor zone are frickin kidding

Anyone with any intelligence this show is forbidding

This poem I’m doing things my way, I can’t stand the racist alls I have to say

A LETTER TO OUR ANGEL

                           A LETTER TO OUR ANGEL

            MOTHER I SEE YOUR FACE WHEN I LOOK IN THE SKY, I LOOK UP AND START TO SMILE

         AS I START TO SMILE WHICH ALWAYS MAKES ME CRY, YOU’RE GONE NOW AND I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY
,

        IF IT WOULD HELP EVEN SMALL, I WOULD GIVE YOU HALF MY BREATH, OR EVEN ALL

        YOUR STILL LIVING YOUR LIFE AFTER DEATH, LIFE ON EARTH IS JUST A TEST

  I  WOULD TRADE PLACES WITH YOU IF I COULD,  THIS YOU KNOW I WOULD

       SORRY MOTHER YOU DESERVE A SON BETTER THAN ME, I’M SORRY I COULDN'T

BE THE SON YOU DESERVED WITH EVERYTHING YOU GAVE TO ME

       I UNDERSTAND MOTHER YOU HAD TO GO AWAY ON THAT DAY,I'M SORRY  BUT I JUST COULDN'T TAKE ALL YOUR  PAIN AWAY
  

       YOUR YOUNG SISTERS THINK ABOUT YOU EVERYDAY, YOUR IN EVERY WORD THEY SAY

     I'M SORRY FOR EVERY TEAR THAT I CAUSE YOU TO SHED, CUTS THROUGH MY HEART, UNTIL MY BLOOD HAS NO LONGER BLED

      I TEARS ME APART EVERY TIME I MADE YOU CRY, HAS CAUSED A PART OF MY SOUL TO DIE

     YOU DESERVE A BETTER LIFE THAN YOU GOT FROM ME, LIKE MANY MORE PLACES  THAT YOU WANTED TO SEE

     I KNOW YOU ARE IN HEAVEN HOLDING YOUR GRANDSON IAN , IS HE PLAYING UP THERE LOOKING DOWN OVER KEVIN

    IF I ONLY COULD TURN BACK THE HANDS OF TIME, I WOULD HONESTLY TRADE YOUR LIFE FOR MINE

    I WOULD TAKE YOUR PLACE IN LINE, TAKE ALL YOUR TEARS AWAY UNTIL THERE ISN'T NONE

    YOU ARE MAKING A PLACE FOR YOU AND DAD, BUT IF YOU COULD JUST WAIT

 AWHILE WE’D BE GLAD, THANK YOU FOR THOSE COUPLE OF YEARS WE HAD

    I KNOW DAD IS SADDER EVERYDAY, HE MISSES YOU AS MUCH AS WHEN YOU WENT AWAY,

   I  REMEMBER THE TIMES THAT WE HAD,  THE GOOD,AND  THE BAD THE HAPPY AND  THE SAD

    THERES NOT A DAY THAT GOES BYE, WHEN I THINK OF YOU I START TO CRY, I CAN’T FIND THE HEART TO SAY GOODBYE

   EVERYDAY YOU WATCH OVER YOUR GREAT GRANDSON KEEGAN, BOY MOTHER SOMEDAY YOU WILL GET A CHANCE TO MEET HIM

 , HAS A TEMPER WHEN HE CRIES KIND OF LIKE YOU DAD, GETS RED WHEN HES MAD

                  WELL I BETTER GO BEFORE I START TO CRY, ANGEL I MUST SAY GOODBYE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!                                   

                      BY RICK MCDONNELL

GOOD GIRL GONE BAD

GOOD GIRL GONE BAD

Good girl gone bad, treasured the past that she had

She was better than you knew, there wasn't anything she couldn't do

Till the day that she turned, lost everything she earned, she never knew

The cost of her new plan, no one understands

How a girl like her! Made her turn to a good girl gone bad

Good girl was so sad, which turned to getting mad

Nothing she won’t do, what she has turned into

She likes her new life, she’s bad day and night

Nobody ever noticed who she was, changes were all because

No one wanted a good girl! So she changed and became

 what most women would be ashamed, but not a bad girl, she’s now one cold bitch

she's scratching her new itch, it's all new to her

That’s everything she had a good girl gone bad! Now she turns trick

Makes her family sick, what can her family do, what she’s put them through

Until she went to jail, put an end to this good to bad tail! Now she’s good again

TWENTY ONE

                    TWENTY ONE

The meanings of Numbers are different to everyone

I have so many stories about my number by the way it’s 21

What is your number and what does it mean to you

Have you ever thought about your numbers and what they add up too?

Numbers are something that is corresponding and controls our lives

They can be a confusing how many people you know died on the same number

Living your life without numbers is like a storm without thunder, don’t belong

Will I die too on the twenty first, that’s a thought that’s the worst?

But I have to wonder what twenty one means to me, or a place I’m supposed to be

My mother and father both died on the twenty first, is it a blessing or a curse

Twenty one used to be such a great number, will it be the death of me I wonder?

I used to see twenty one in so many dreams, twenty one means something so it seems

Have you figured it out yet about your number, add it up over and over it’s always under 100

Well it’s the twentieth and tomorrows the twenty first, will it be the best or the worst

CHOICES

CHOICES

When she whispered to you what did she say?

What happens if she doesn't get her own way?

Is she all that she thinks the world revolves around her

Is she the one for you, or are you still unsure

How much can you take, their signs everywhere

Has she been cheating on you, she’s as cold as the winter’s air

She’s a man eater a heartless soul that doesn't even care

You’re not even in her world, your just there for this girl

If it came down to you or a good book

You would lose she wouldn't even take a second look

Break free from everything about her this is no way for you to live

Your better than that, you have so much more to give

A year and a half later, she’s got four kids and a trailer

The queen who used to be doesn't have a friend in the world

Because she was so mean to everyone, now she’s just another trailer park girl

But you have a career and a wife, not for a moment do you regret that night

Choices you make could cost you your life, make sure your choices are right

ANTHONY'S POEM

  ANTHONY’S POEM

Anthony always lived his life close to the vest, this about him I must confess

He’s the loneliest guy I knew always under duress

all Though his act was happy like a guy on top of the world

Anthony was a good looking teenager, who was loved by the girls

He liked to smoke pot 420 is how he used to chill

He was my best friend, til the day he left this world

a kid gone at fifteen, how can my best friend leave me

Anthony has died  how am I suppose to live it's hard to survive

Thinking about him still after 30 years I say goodbye and begin to cry

Death by drowning is something I just don’t understand

 Anthony was amazing he can do anything

I wonder if it was it accident or was it something he planned

What  happened to Anthony has altered who I am

 would he be married  or be on his own what kind of father would he become

 Anthony dreamed about having children he loved everyone

Would we still be friends or drift apart is our bond forever he's in my heart

Growing old in backyard with chicken frying

Would he have been there when my mother laid dying?

Anthony dying changed my life forever,I know someday we’ll be together

This poem is dedicated to a special friend Anthony, I'd do it again

Without him my life has been a lonely journey with a broken heart

There’s not a day where I don’t think of him

thinking back and laughing about all the good times we been through

as I’m  writing this poem, Anthony’s watching me proud from his home

SECRETS ARE LIES

         SECRETS ARE LIES

  I feel like I’m drowning I’m getting pulled down under to the deep

Finding the all the stresses of my life are becoming too steep

Swimming to the top for air as it’s getting harder to breathe

Knowing what I know about you it’s becoming impossible to be me

What’s your putting me through is not fair, what it’s doing don’t you care

These secrets I hold of what you have done, if someone finds out your future is gone

Go to a priest you need to confess, it might help to take away some stress

 So you can clean up this mess the crime you committed was under duress

You done what had to be do; he attacked and tried to kill you, so you took his life with a gun

 it was self defense, turn yourself in increase your chance for what you've done was right

it could have went the other way not ready to face it so you go on the run,your trying to get away from what you done

Now your story about the truth is out now, I hope you the very best, I hope someday you can work it out

DON'T CLOSE YOU'RE EYES

          DON’T CLOSE YOUR EYES

      When you close your eyes, I know you see him

       I want you, but I know you don’t want me, I’m living with his memory

 Don’t close your eyes and think of him in some memory

I know that you meant to love me, but it’s him in some love song

That you here on the radio, it’s been him all along, tell me I’m wrong

You close your eyes every time we dance, you think of him in some faded romance

Just once don’t close your eyes, and wish it was me, in some of our early memories

I know you dream about him, when times were good when you held him

It wouldn't be me, if I didn't set you free, go back to him so you don’t have to pretend with me

Don’t close my eyes, and wish it was you, holding me tight and the good times we been through

Don’t close your eyes then I won’t close mine, let’s think of each other in our memories

        

MY ADDICTION

        MY ADDICTION

Your life has been taken over by an addiction

Another falling child a product of my own affliction

I don’t do it just to get high; I have to just to get by

Dreams are grounded by anxiety in bed

  On certain moments you wish you were dead

Can you wait it out and get better for god’s sake

But the losing your mind is the part you can’t take

You can’t remember the last time you stood on your own

Only thing you can think of is you want this feeling gone

So many people couldn’t take it, so they took their life

That’s a coward’s way out, that’s not what life’s all about

An addiction is a drug, and my drug of choice is you

 Your My addiction that I am going through

Is living my life without you, an addiction I can no longer do

FEAR OF DYING ALONE

 FEAR OF DYING ALONE

If I told you I wasn't afraid of dying

You can tell by my fear I’m lying

But my biggest fear of all, is dying alone

Would it be a heart attack just like that your gone

Or could it be a stroke where I cannot speak

What if I could not reach the phone?

Would anyone miss you if you went away?

I have a fear of dying alone everyday

Seeing everyone dying around me

Wondering when my time will be

That’s a question only god know

He has your toe tagged when it’s your time to go

Why are you laying in bed, never move an inch

If I had to Could I save my life in a pinch?

Would I want to live or have I  just gave up

So much has happened, you've had enough

Get up your about to have your second wind

Your not dying your living again

MID LIFE CRISIS

          MID LIFE CRISIS

You go through you're life wishing that you were someone else

Bored with your life, not happy with hand you were dealt

they say the grass is greener on the other side, it's just a frame of mind

You think your family would be enough, you want something more

So many times you've had enough and started to walk out the door

You can’t leave behind your kids; they are the only thing you live for

Your marriage is on the rocks, why are you still married, what you are waiting for

All your friends are out having a good time, thinking that life used to be mine

You deserve to be happy, instead of crying all the time, your mind starting to unwind

Knowing you have to get out of this house, so you drink to become someone else

Now your drinking and sleeping around, while your families at home on the other side of town

You have their life of good time and partying down, you’re about to lose your family now

Watch out for the life you’re asking for, you’ll never find better than the life you had before

Life isn't so green on the other side, you’re in a mid life crisis wait it will pass you by

EBONY AND IVORY

               EBONY AND IVORY

Ebony and ivory str8 from the sandbox when you used to play with me

We were friends from the start at the sandbox, but lately we've faded apart

No one can take the place of you, really! We’re tight as ebony and ivory

We played ball till the night’s end, before all this racism between people set in

Society says we can’t be friends, I've heard it over and over again

What they will never understand we’re ebony and ivory till the end

Color doesn't matter in our eyes; I couldn't love him any less if I tried

We have fought together for what we believe, that’s ebony and ivory

You held my head back when I broke my nose, and we wore each others close

 We said when we graduated we were going to build submarine to go in the sea

 Always and forever we are ebony and ivory, we stand on the front line of a protest

About a friend of ours, a racist caused his death; beating racism is a big step

How come the world can’t see, were all brothers we’re all part of ebony and ivory

It’s as much for me as for you, a story that’s true, we’re ebony and ivory so can you

A DAD I DIDN'T HAVE TO BE

 A  DAD I DIDN'T HAVE TO BE

I seen her first steps when she walked to you

I was there holding her for the first breathe she blew

She came to you for advice about a boy

You cherish every moment together, with her you’re life’s a joy

She’s a teen now, and she has withdrawn from you

Don’t worry she’ll be back, and you can talk it through

It almost hurts as much as when her dad walked out on you

On her wedding I gave her away, I was the dad I didn’t have to be

I remember you thought the tux I was wearing looked so gay

Until you seen you’re daughter dancing the first dance with me

Now thinking back the first time when you scrapped your knee

I cried it hurt me more than you, I remember all the tears we’ve been through

Now she has a child of her own, and you’re now a grand mother

I will forever remember all times we been through good and the bad together

Now you can watch her cry when her baby rides her first bike

TIMING IS EVERYTHING

TIMING IS EVERYTHING

Timing is everything I've had my close calls

If it wasn't for timing I wouldn't be here at all

Many things we don’t understand

Like was it fate or was it gods plan

Like the time we first met, in the rain your car had a flat

I came along just at the right time, and the rain in our hair

 For the first time we didn't care how we looked

Timing is everything for the crash on I 95

If we didn't take the wrong exit we wouldn't be alive

Timing is everything when the twister missed my house

If it would have came down we be dead that’s no doubt

Timing has saved everyone’s life over a million times

All I know without timing the sun wouldn't shine

Without timing the sun would crash with the moon

Timing keeps us moving each day, without timing

 Then time wouldn't mean anything, life would end too soon

Timing is everything timing helps us keep track of the day

it would just be another day melting away, I’m grateful for timing everyday

LOVE FROM AFAR

         LOVE FROM AFAR

She shines off the bay a gleam that becomes so bright

I can’t get her out of my mind, I think about her every night

She’s the most beautiful woman in the bay, I almost said hi tonight

Seems like every time I try to talk to her my tongue gets twisted

Because she’s my world, she’s my day, I love her so much in every way

If I could just tell her, if only once, the way I feel, I just don’t know what to say

What would I say, if she even once looked my way, I practice it everyday

Then I had my chance, I stumbled and bumped into her, and she said hello

How could I fumble! How did I fall, I said it over and over, these are things I do not know

How can she ever love a guy that cannot speak, how can she be with a man that is so weak

Then I guess I will have to love her from afar, I guess that’s who you are, yes! That’s me

FUNERAL HOME

      FUNERAL HOME

I knew a man who died today who did things his own way

He had a son he never seen His lonely home was behind the stream

A place no one visited, cause he’s so mean

He has to be the angriest man I've ever seen

As I look around at the funeral home

For the first time I realized I’m standing alone

The funeral director wasn't even there

 I yelled out hello it echoed through the air

Look for somewhere to sit, in the corner was a chair

I grabbed the chair to put in the middle of the room

  But it wouldn't move, what am I to do

It was slightly foggy I could barely see

But as I looked down at the dead guy I realized it was me

At that moment it was clear to me I’m in some twilight dream

I got the message from what my dream was showing

If I don’t change at the rate I’m going, then I’m going to die alone

WITHOUT ME

                  WITHOUT ME

Don’t die I know you, I can’t lie so I’ll have to show you

 Someday I’ll show you how to get by without me, doing it your way

It’s so easy just like it used to be, you are

At a place in your life, whereas, your decisions instead of wrong are right

 Then for, you don’t need me, because you are a girl that’s free

And no more heartaches from me, so nice to feel this way about me

 It’s nice without having someone holding you down everyday

This is a warning girlfriend to stay away, from me, I’m on the wrong way

If stay with me you will regret everything, you do from here say

Now on you can do things your way. You’re too old to play

The childish games men play, so you just do things your way

So Get up and do your best to walk away, from all the promises I break

Find a, different path than I take, you have, so much girl

To put it all on the line it’s a mistake

FAREWELL

                     FAREWELL

     Farewell! A letter to whom it may concern

    I must go for now but someday I will return

   We all must pay for every decision we ever make

  After a road to farewell, this is the path I must take

  Believe me I thought it through long and hard without disregard

  Cause farewell is a departure of one’s dignity

 And to go any other way just would not be me

 Don’t cry my friend because we will meet again

May it be in another life, for now this will be our goodbye

No matter where we are next time we’ll know wrong from right

I’m fading fast into the light, watching things from my past

Next time I’ll do them right

SLINGING WORDS

           SLINGING WORDS

The words you’re throwing straight at my head

You Missed by a mile it  had broken my heart instead

The things you’re saying are letters that are labeled

All the words that you’re throwing are barely stable

unlike stick and stones, you’re throwing words you throw

  You’d think it wouldn't hurt but it has broken all my bones

Some of the words that your throwing, are words you don't even know

Heartless cold words that you sling everyday hurt me more than I can say

Like a curse on a voodoo doll, you laugh every time I fall

I know you still love me, so these words aren't as strong as they used to be

it's all because I haven't proposed I tell ya I've tried more times than you know

you're acting like a child even for you it's not your style

I still can’t get over all those hurtful words  you said

Take the words back, or i'll throw them back at your head

then maybe then You’ll see how it hurts and you'll stop flinging instead

out of my heart I took you back for a day

now You’re back to throwing words slinging words i'd never say

It makes no sense, where did you learn this game you play

 these are all new words,you don't even know what they say

I learned how to become protected, cause lately I feel neglected 

two can play this game I’m slinging words back at you

So how does it feel when there's nothing you can do

 I know it hurts, I hope slinging words are through

THE HALLOWEEN I'LL NEVER FORGET

THE HALLOWEEN I’LL NEVER FORGET

         This Halloween was like no other

         I taken a dredged wrong turn this I discovered

         I now must Zig zag through the ghetto to get to my mother

        As I came across the scariest Frankenstein I've ever seen

        He wasn't like the normal Frankenstein giving out candy he was mean

        Grabbed my bag of candy and wouldn't give it back to me

       He tied me up in the basement and covered my eyes so I can’t see

       And when he was upstairs giving out candy I had broken free

       And I’m back on my journey, I must start over and get candy

         For being my favorite day October 31, this Halloween has been the worst

        A gang of neighborhood freaks, chasing me from street to street

         I finally seen a street I know until some big green monster wouldn't let me through

         To find out it was my neighbor Mr., slate in a costume of Mr. McCool

       The whole neighborhood was out looking for me, I told them how I broke free

       I told them I am sad because my candy was taken from a man that was bad

         All the neighbor kids shared their candy with me, I’m at home right where I need to be

    

ORPHANS ON THE STREETS

                      ORPHANS ON THE STREETS

He was a little orphan boy, abandoned at church of St, Maloy

These children are abused and neglected

By society another orphan that’s been rejected

A blonde hair blue eyed boy that’s confused

What did he do wrong, why was he abused

How can a parent just throw their child away?

Sadly it happens to hundreds of children everyday

Most children treated this way, end up running away

There are too many orphans on the streets with no ware to go

where did all these orphans come from no body knows

 but If everyone cared then the orphans would have somewhere to stay

 aren't Parents are suppose to care for their children till their adults

 These children are abandoned by them and it isn't their fault

So they have to steal for their food, their labeled no good

If one in every ten families took an orphan in

 Then we would be in a fight that we had a chance to win

Please think about what I said, before another orphan ends up dead

So next time you see an orphan on the street, at least give him something to eat

Because that orphan could have been you or me

BETRAYAL

     Betrayal

I’m holding you but I’m still alone

 you wouldn't approve of the things I've done

I live another life if you knew you'd be gone

 I promised to always love you, that’s a promise forever

Because you deserve the truth, who I am you'll soon discover

I can’t remember how this betrayal started

 remembering when it all begun, when I betrayed everyone

 Please understand it was never about another woman

Of all the things I've done,I've never been with another one

I’m a burglar who robs peoples houses for money

 But  please understand I would never hurt anybody

I can no longer live this life, i'd give it up for you tonight

i'll turn myself in, I guess this is goodbye

And I couldn't explain it to you I've tried

Tell the children I am sorry I lied

There’s a chest full of money on the second story

And you responded back in a text, there are some things I can forget

But I can’t live without not even for a night, especially not for 20 to life

So we will run together, and put our life behind us forever

OH SANDY!

              OH SANDY!

Oh sandy! You said how you wanted to be with me

You said you didn't care what I've done

 So I told you about my past, and what I've been through

You said you’d never leave, now you’re gone

I’m confused I thought you said I was the one

Oh sandy! What have I done, to make you so mad?

There were so many plans that we had

Lately you've become so distant and so cold

 Now you’re starting rumors so you never loved me

I was just there someone to use, you say I’m too old

I don’t believe it if I got played then why did you stay

After you knew the truth, I tell you why because I’m just like you

I know you remember the way that we flirted

 Someone who didn't care wouldn't hold me all night when I was hurting

Oh Sandy! So you can say what you want, there’s something deeper going on

The things that you said, about me has cut me deep, an unrepeatable pain

Because I know if I take you back, it will only happen again

The path our relationship has taken, there are something’s I can never forgive

There are some things you taught me how to be cold, how to live

PAY FORWARD

                PAY FORWARD

It’s sad how they kicked my friend Johnny a side, he never knew why

 Every time Johnny walked by they turned their heads and roll their eyes

At parties everyone brags about how they help the homeless out, those distressed

 But everyone needs to confess most people could really care less

There are some people who care, everyone should take time to volunteer

That could be either me or you, down on your luck, living in a card board box

 He goes out and spends his whole day begging for food to feed his family

 The streets have taken all his dignity, you think this is who he wanted to be

Finding a job to support his family is always unsuccessful but he’s trying to do his best

Johnny must get a job it Is the only way to get back his dignity that he needs as a man

When a man loses his respect and his dignity he digs a hole and hides from the humility

The humility of failing his kids and his wife, there's nothing lower in a man’s life

The first step is to stand on his own, because his so called friends have all moved on

Only ones he can count on is his wife and kids, whatever you do they will always forgive

You ban together and forge a plan, because without them on your own you could never stand

They are the Din you’re dignity, they believe in you, and without them it wouldn't be

How you have a job and a house, this is the first year in many that the kids have seen Santa clause

If ever there was a story to be told, this is a true story of a man in a family I know

I took him off the street and gave him a job, and got him a place to live

In return he now pays forward, and has opened a home called the bless, for the homeless

SERENA SMILES

                   SERENA SMILES

     Serena was such a great little dancer

    Up until the day she found out she had cancer

    Such a young girl with only six month to live

    She had so much to offer and everything to give

    How can such a young girl get stage 4 just like that?

    Her Six months to live sure is going so fast

   They sure wish they could take that time with her back

   Serena had so many plans, she never got to hold a boys hand

  The chemo took the last beauty she had, hurts us to see her sad

  She said she seen they white angels fly, it must be true Serena don’t lie

 Her parents pray for no more pain, they see cancer going to her brain

Her last day Serena didn’t want any meds she wanted to see her family around her bed

Moments later she was dead, as Serena’s parents prayed the angels carried her soul away

    

        

A COWBOY

                  A COWBOY

 Only time a cowboy will fall, is when he finds a faster draw

 A cowboy lives on the edge, a cowboy has no regrets

 A cowboy lives till he dies, a rugged cowboy never says goodbye

 A real cowboy never follows the rules, a cowboy won’t be told what to do

 Cowboys are always on the go, cowboys are nothing without a rodeo

Tough Cowboys live day to day, never letting cowboys feelings get in the way

There’s nothing a cowboy wouldn't do, things he put you through

Cowboy rides or dies, there’s a cowboy in you there’s a cowboy in I

There’s not a bull he wouldn't ride, a cowboy never lies

A cowboy stays true to his form, everyday a cowboys is born

 What a cowboy must go through he, rides until he’s black and blue

There is no law a cowboy hasn't broke, there is no risk a cowboy hasn't took

A cowboy rides hard till the day he dies, beneath the dirt many cowboys body lyes

DEATH OF A DYING MAN

THE DEATH OF A DYING MAN

The death of a dying man, for reasons you never could understand

I’m sorry said the dying man, you wouldn't stop him even if you can, because you're a coward so you

 turned and ran

Not everyone was meant to live this life,as son as you figure that out you'll be alright

A stranger ask who I am, friend you wouldn't understand I’m just another lonely man

The voice I have always been waiting to hear, a voice thats so clear,I knew for sure the voice was near

The voice got stronger upon the peer, through the fog it was his families voice that appeared, was that

 the one he could hear?

The voices Called pleading upon him for his life, he replied back where were you all those painful nights

so many nights he was among the walking dead, for his life it was already over inside his head

suddenly his family reached for him, he replied softly please don’t come near, his voice was broken up by

 all those tears,like skittles in the atmosphere

then An angel called upon the dying man’s family to save him, don't jump suicides a sin

there are Some thing’s god won’t forgive, only he can decide the last day you live, as he turns to come off

 the ledge

He slipped going off the edge his last failing words were goodbye, I guess God decided this is the day he dies
his family saved him from committing suicide, if you look right you can see him wave goodbye