Expecting Rain

out to the windy beach - not right now, but next week when, hopefully, I'll also be - Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands
With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves - and have a bit of a swim and an ice-cream.

Walkin' through the leaves, falling from the trees
Feelin' like a stranger nobody sees
So many things that we never will undo
I know you’re sorry, I’m sorry too

Now everything’s a little upside down, as a matter of fact the wheels have stopped
What’s good is bad, what’s bad is good, you’ll find out when you reach the top
You’re on the bottom

You’ll never know the hurt I suffered nor the pain I rise above
And I’ll never know the same about you, your holiness or your kind of love
And it makes me feel so sorry

I’m going out of my mind, oh, oh
With a pain that stops and starts
Like a corkscrew to my heart
Ever since we’ve been apart

Don’t know if I saw you, if I would kiss you or kill you
It probably wouldn’t matter to you anyhow

I know I can’t win
But my heart just won’t give in
Last night I danced with a stranger
But she just reminded me you were the one

I see nothing to be gained by any explanation
There are no words that need to be said

You broke a heart that loved you
Now you can seal up the book and not write anymore

I ain’t sayin’ you treated me unkind
You could have done better but I don’t mind

Still I wish there was somethin’ you would do or say
To try and make me change my mind and stay

I just can’t do what I done before
I just can’t beg you anymore
I’m gonna let you pass
And I’ll go last

I march in the parade of liberty
But as long as I love you I’m not free
How long must I suffer such abuse
Won’t you let me see you smile one time before I turn you loose?

and, if it's not superclear yet:

I want you, I want you
I want you so bad
Honey, I want you

^yeah

Don’t know how it looked to other people
I never slept with her even once

Everybody got all the money
Everybody got all the beautiful clothes
Everybody got all the flowers
I don't have one single rose

Stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis blues again

My eyes feel like they’re falling off my face
Well, I’m tired of talking, I’m tired of trying to explain;

I’ve still got the scars that the sun didn’t heal
I know it looks like I’m moving, but I’m standing still;

Woke up this morning and I looked at the same old page
Same ol’ rat race
Life in the same ol’ cage;

My head tells me it’s time to make a change;

My heart’s in the Highlands at the break of dawn
By the beautiful lake of the Black Swan
Big white clouds like chariots that swing down low
Well my heart’s in the Highlands
Only place left to go.

One of my teammates have left the company, and I have to work for two all during the summer. I'm just so tired. I had my weekend in Limerick cancelled, and the only way I can get to the Concert is by the Bob DYlan Train, going back to Dublin in the middle of the night, as I have to be in for work Monday morning at 7:00 AM.
I used to live and work in Scotland, and it suddenly seems like a wonderful place. But all things seems sweeter in memory, I suppose.

I feel a change comin' on - i'm getting married, TODAY!

It was gravity which pulled us down and destiny which broke us apart
You tamed the lion in my cage but it just wasn’t enough to change my heart
Now everything’s a little upside down, as a matter of fact the wheels have stopped
What’s good is bad, what’s bad is good, you’ll find out when you reach the top
You’re on the bottom

Congrats! May you live happily ever after.

Congratulations to both of you!

When two people are one
in their inmost hearts,
They shatter even the strength of iron or of bronze.
And when two people understand each other
in their inmost hearts,
Their words are sweet and strong,
like the fragrance of orchids.
I Ching (a distant cousin of Bob's)

I found the above deeply emotional and plaintive... the words tugged at my heart and soul... the tenderness and the strength echoed to the very core of my innernessness... my spiritual innernessness... those words have inspired me to create words of my own in praise of those words... this poem captures the emotional roller-coaster of feelings that surged through my very 'being' whilst reading those inspiring words.

Chinging in Boston

I Ching
You Ching
We can Ching together
And as we Ching
We'll go Ching, Ching, Ching
We can Ching together
We can Ching together
And we can sing
Just like Bing
As we Ching together

Oh, you sweet talker, you.... <sniff, sniff>.... What are ya doin' later?

I believe in the impossible, you know that I do.

How wonderful! Heartiest congratulations to you and yours, Troubadour

'come in she said i'll give you, shelter from the storm'

'would i have married her, i don't know i suppose'

'everybody must get stoned'

'if you gotta go, go now, or else you gotta stay all night'

and

Troubadour64 - good luck on your wedding day! hope you have a beautiful and happy life together!

They got some hungry women there
And they really make a mess outta you

Great... good for you.... much love, much happiness, many years!!!!

Señor, señor, I can see that painted wagon
I can smell the tail of the dragon
Can’t stand the suspense anymore
Can you tell me who to contact here, señor?

I come into Pittsburgh
At six-thirty flat
I found myself a vacant seat
An’ I put down my hat

Wiggle wiggle wiggle like a bowl of soup

They'll stone ya when you're trying to be so good.

"Did you ever lay awake at night, your face turned to the wall,
Drowning in your thoughtlessness, and cut off from it all?"

From "Can't Wait": "Tell-Tale Signs" outtake # 1