Blue and Red

You've never been blue.
Like I've been blue.
I went swimming.
what could I do.

The tide rolled on in.
I didn't wear my fins.
The tide rolled out.
The end begins.

Blue is a state of mind.
Blue is a state of being.
Hold your breathe long enough you'll find.
Blue comes from just not breathing.

You've never been red.
You woke up in bed.
And angry heart ache.
Really bad head ache.

The tide rolled in
The red begins
The tide rolled out
you flounder about

Red is a state of mind
Red is a state of being
Hit your head on the rocks and you'll find
Red comes because you're bleeding.

Wayward hearts!

You told me that you gave your heart to me.

I now would like to collect if you please.

It's not for me it's for another.

I thought I'd sell it to pay off the gambling debts of my brother.

Oh wayward hearts.

Come back home to me.

Oh broken parts.

How I wish they were free.

I sold the heart of Mary Lou who walked by me one day.

Her kidneys and some other organs too, that affair really paid.

And Anna really made me richer.

I sold her shoulder to a baseball pitcher.

Oh wayward hearts.

Come back home to me.

Oh broken parts.

How I wish they were free.

It’s time to hang the lights again

It’s time to hang the lights again

It’s time to trim the tree.

But it’s also time as most of us dread.

To spend time with family.

I’d like to spend the holiday up on the slopes

But I know this Christmas it’ll be Uncle joe’s

And hearing him tell all about his ingrown toe

Not the nail the whole toe, don’t ask me, I don’t know.

Or what about Dear Aunt June

Who’ll insist each year that I try a prune.

Or their darling little children with their grubby little paws.

Who I’m very tempted to tell them all about Santa Claus….

Or people I barely know dropping in on my home.

All of this makes me want to spend Christmas Alone!

My father  in-law says my light don’t look right.

And my own Mother wants to come and spend the night.

Of course I’m expected to give up my bed.

So my wife and I will sleep outside and use the poodle to rest my head.

It’s great to have my family.

That’s why I plan to move away, overseas.

I can handle them much more peacefully

If they don’t live so close to me.

But when Christmas Eve comes and I see them all in my home……

I think…

It’s better than spending Christmas…..

Alone!