plowboy desires

plowboy desires


calloused hands upon the plow
wiping sweat from weathered brow
how I'd love to hold him now
how I'd love to love him.

rainy days would keep him in
we'd play and say that it was sin
but we were married then back then
how I'd love to love him.

the farm, it was his life, he'd say
he'd plan all night and work all day
no weed would ever get away
how I'd love to love him.

the babies played off by themselves
and I would cook and clean myself
while he would work the fields himself
how I'd love to love him.

but the earth, it pays a different wage
it tears your life out page by page
and blows your hopes and dreams away
how I'd love to love him.

but I can't love him 'cause he's gone
greener pastures called him home
he left me here to farm alone
how I'd love to love him.

I never was good as a farmer's wife
Too much strain and too much strife
I'd trade in this bad life for something that's right
but how I'd love to love him.

plowboy leaning on that old hard plow
tanned from the sun and looking good now
boy, would you like to come a working for me?
work when you want and all your dinners for free.

so I hired me a hired hand and I brought him to home
and all he does is plant, plow and leave me alone
he's tending the crops and I'm praying for rain
(looks like I've got me the same plowboy again.....)

and I stand at the window and I watch while I sing
look at my hand and take off my ring
he's younger than me but that don't mean a thing
how I'd love to love him.

 © by Voo

Dec 19, 2004 

midnight

 

  That Summer
 Garth Brooks Cover

Can You Tell Me Why? In Memory of Benjamin Keough R.I.P.

Can You Tell Me Why?

Can you tell me why this came?

This horrible day so full of pain?

This thing so terrible

It has no name

Can you tell me why?

Can you tell me where to go?

I have no answers and I need to know

I can't even see

Which way to go 

Can you tell me why?

Can you tell me how to stop?

This time that broke me and the clock?

It's frozen in time

And it's all I've got

Can you tell me why?

Maybe  "Why" is not the right question

Maybe " How" is not even close

Maybe " Someday" is all I'll ever get

Maybe I'll have to accept "I Don't Know."

I've searched my mind and I've searched my heart

And torn my memory book apart

That the End has come now when the Beginning should start

Can you tell me why?

Grief, it is an angry thing

It steals your joy like a hawk on the wing

It swoops down and grabs you and forbids you to sing

Can you tell me why?

These questions come from my sorrowing soul

Down where it's dark and deep and cold

My beloved will never be, like me, growing old

Can you tell me why?

I didn't think so.

Benjamin and his Dad, Danny



See You Again by Charlie Puth

©by Voo

Gypsy Woman

Gypsy Woman by Curtis Mayfield

Gypsy Woman
by The Persuasions

Nothing Takes The Place of You

At Last

At Last

Nestled in

Our solitude

Like baby birds in downy nest

We croon to one another's tune

And sing our solaced hearts to rest.

Too many nights on rain-hued streets

So many days in sunless cloud

We crept alone like key-less thieves

And cried inside and not aloud.

Seeking for a silver lining

Begging for a bowl to fill

Looking for a life, untarnished

And love received, believed and real.

For in the dark woods of the memory

Was there we lost the taste of good

And wandered lonely....... homeless gypsies

Hunting love like it was food.

Until we stumbled

On one another

Until we fell in desperate grasp

In empty arms that bade us welcome

And made for us a home at last.

Now there's no need for consolation

Regret, or time to mourn the lack

We lost our lives on haunted highways

And love has given our lives back.

And it is here

We'll dwell forever

To savor all the joy we've found

Like birds that sail on winds eternal

Our feet no more, to scrape the ground.

©by Voo

Feb 23, 13

10:18 p.m.