Riddle- Five for Fighting

Slice- Five for Fighting

reflecting---G Clair

Don't know how to tell you this, but somehow it must be
that someone tells us something and today I guess that's me.

I've thought up lots of somethings and of all the thoughts I've got
the ones I could be sharing are the one's I'd rather not.

See I've made a lot of choices from the dull part of my brain
most without foreknowledge, and of course some caused me pain.

So I go about my business since I'm hired, this is true
when assigned you'd best be following the leader, and I do.

But when I'm free to think alone, I look out on the fields
and contemplate my choices now and how the future yields.

There are things you plan ahead in life and trust, though God is good,
that other folks will treat you well around the neighborhood.

Things we count on, days and nights, the seasons and the years
but words are gold, be bold and God will surely quell your fears.

The best book I am reading, besides the Bible's Truth
the story of George Washington, our founder, from his youth.

Considering the past is wise and don't repeat mistakes
do your best to state your quest, and stay away from flakes.

Give when you are able, do the right thing as it is said
a good man can't be faulted though he's human, heaven led.

Use your gifts, 'a future and a hope' He's promised man
Be wise, get wisdom, realize your time is in His Hand.

city of blame - G Clair

your memory serves you but mine is so lame
it bothers you still so please tell me again

who stole your lunch box and who smashed your toy
who failed to hug you when you were a boy
who broke your heart and who fractured your tooth
who sapped your energy, who took took youth
who who who who

and who wasn't there when you needed him so
who made you clean up and shovel the snow
who was a meany and who was a Grinch
who took a mile when you gave him an inch
who who wbo who

what is the reason you must take the shame
tell it to get off your back just the same
let out the anger and cut loose the pain
grab onto love, baby, run from this city of blame

who didn't choose you for kickball that day
who left you stranded to walk all that way
who took your Christmas and who stole your pride
who locked the door and then left you outside
in the rain

who robbed your innocence, who stole your crown
promised the moon and took off at sundown
the memories haunt us though we may forgive
forgetting is hard 'cause it is what it is

who took your hopes and your dreams to the floor
a lick a promise when you needed more
and who said "I Do" with his two fingers crossed
dumped you for somebody haggard and sauced

what is the reason you must take the shame
tell it to get off your back just the same
let out the anger and cut loose the pain
grab onto love, baby, run from this city of blame.

Someone Else's Song- GClair

I slid along the Avenue until I reached your place
I must admit I'd had a few but longed to see your face
The steps were barely salted, and I cursed them as I fell
and peppered my possessions on the sidewalk iced from hell.

Face down upon the Avenue I breathed the cold of night
and realized to my surprise my hip had twisted right
And not a soul was present to raise me from the dread
no, not a one to hear my cries or anything I said.

Chorus:
And never I've felt so foolish, though I've been a fool before
and every time I've done me wrong I'm lying on the floor
if maybe Someone Else's song will save them from their grave
I'll take the shame on New Years Eve if just one soul I save!

Well it's been my vain conception that I'm good in any storm
I'm graceful, no deception, all my landings, perfect form
pride reserved an answer for the blasted state I'm in
"only New Years Eve will bring out all the things I've never been."

I laid upon the Avenue, each minute like an hour
and I prayed that God was having you come down from your high tower.
to find me there, an old time square without a new years ball
much better to be found alive than not be found at all.

Chorus:
And never I've felt so foolish, though I've been a fool before
and every time I've done me wrong I'm lying on the floor
if maybe someone else's song will save them from their grave
I'll take the shame on New Years Eve if just one soul I save!

Well It must have been near midnight, turned my head to hear the riff
distant music on the river and my mind began to drift
when something kicked my ankle like the tip of someone's shoe
could it be the boot of heaven checking if my soul was due?

I'd landed near a tire, whose tread was laced with snow
which buried in the mire, had nowhere else to go
and glimpsing my reflection in the hub which shined like new
I witnessed my deliverance, the light of God, it's true!

Chorus
And never I've felt so foolish, though I've been a fool before
and every time I've done me wrong I'm lying on the floor
if maybe someone else's song will save them from their grave
I'll take the shame on New Years Eve if just one soul I save!

From somewhere deep inside the smokey bellows of my ire
a verse from someone else's song which rose up like a choir
Is it you my sweet beloved, come to raise me from my plight?
for I've fallen in my drunken state this cold dark News Years Night.

And what have we beheld here, a woman in the snow
her hip looks out of socket though her face is all aglow
they rushed me to the hospital and just in time for tea
which warmed the cockles of my heart and thawed my love for thee.

Chorus:
And never I've felt so foolish, though I've been a fool before
and every time I've done me wrong I'm lying on the floor
if maybe Someone Else's song will save them from their grave
I'll take the shame on New Years Eve if just one soul I save!

My coconut is hollow but I've artichoke to spare
and the roads I chose to follow often lead to cupboards bare
I've made the best of nothing 'til the nothings left me cold
and filled my chest with stuffing out of fear of growing old.

All these years I've been a sinner, running circles, chasing youth,
with my hair as gray as winter, I come face to face with truth
Lying flat out on the sidewalk on that News Years Eve from hell
I learned to trust correction and I hope you're doing well.

Chorus:
And never I've felt so foolish, though I've been a fool before
and every time I've done me wrong I'm lying on the floor
if maybe Someone Else's song will save them from their grave
I'll take the shame on New Years Eve if just one soul I save!

I'm singing someone Else's song, for me it's not that true
I don't get drunk on New Years Eye and rarely think of you
If one day you should meet me on the street where you might live,
be sure to wave and greet me if you've got the time to give!!!

And never you'll feel so foolish, though you've been a fool before
and every time you've done you wrong you're lying on the floor
if maybe Someone Else's song will save you from you grave
then take the shame on New Years Eve, if just your soul you save!