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Monday, January 19, 2026
AS THE MUSIC DROWNS
As The Music Drowns
Baby, I hear the tears in your voice
Even though you’re trying to be brave
There on the other end of the phone.
I know you’re sitting there
In the dark as usual
Wearing pajama bottoms and those old socks.
I listen to what you say
And to what you’re not saying
And I keep my silence until you’re through.
You have no idea how much I love you
How I’d like to put my arms around you
And hold you till the pain stops.
I’m just the girl next door,
Your best buddy,
Your sounding board and listening post.
I know you better
Than you know yourself
And I still love you enough to die for you.
I hear you get up and put on a record
Not an impersonal CD
But a scratched up old album from The Goodwill.
Well, I won’t take up any more of your time, you say
And still hold onto the phone
Like it’s a lifeline in a sea of loneliness.
You can call me anytime, I whisper softly
As I lie there looking out my window
And down at your shadow in a dim hall light.
Damn those girls that break your heart!
They have no idea how good and fine and sweet you are!
They have no idea.
But I do. I do.
And I wipe the tears from my face
As Solomon Burke starts to sing the song of my heart.
I’m a man! you say angrily into the phone
(Like you’re trying to convince somebody, maybe yourself)
I’ve been hurt before, I’m not going to cry over it.
It’s okay, I answer softly
Knowing you’re not really even listening
It’s alright to cry sometimes.
Then you hang up the phone
And turn the stereo up real high
And I lie there in the dark alone
as the music drowns out our tears.
©By Voo
Dec 08, 08
2:12 a.m.
Cry To Me by Solomon Burke,
the song playing on the record player
Sunday, January 18, 2026
An Oldie from My Vault .................... RAIN
Rain
Rain..........I love the sound of it
Falling on my roof, trickling down the panes
Pounding on the top of my car, pouring down the lanes
Rain.........I love the taste of it
Splashing in my eyes, running over my lips
Chilling me like I'm fine wine, dripping from my fingertips
Rain.............I love the feel of it
Cleansing, renewing, reviving, undoing
The hard places in me that needs some ungluing.
Rain.........I love the sight of it
Storming my quiet days in glorious thunder
Waking my senses with wide eyed wonder
Rain..........I need it like a doctor
Healing me, concealing me yet all the same
Washing wounds from love deep in my earthen body
I stand and let the rain remove my pain.
Copyright
©2007 Voo Shining Stone
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