Everything Was Fine – Poetry Lyrics 57-58

By Alfred Brown

This is the poem where I finally got to use the sentence that had been rattling in my brain for a few years “Everything was fine until I got shot in the face.”  I wrote it first sometime, probably around 2013, then I did some edits to it around 2014 or 2015.  The intention with the edits was to make the poems into songs.

57 -if you see this lady

If you see this lady
She will drive you crazy
She’ll make you moan and weep
You’ll see her in your sleep

Her body is amazing
Her face is worth praising
There is none quite like her
You see and you’ll concur

One day I saw her pass
Got a glimpse of her class
I knew I’d never find
Another so devine

I swear she pursed her lip
And even winked a bit
And with her eye twinkle
I knew she must be single

I walked up to this gal
And asked to be her pal
Because to start as friends
Is just a means to ends

She said she needs no toys
Not int’rested in boys
And if I understand
Show her that I’m a man

I said if so you want
I’ll show you what i got
And so i whipped it out
All that which i’m about

I showed her what i had
To make good girls turn bad
To make most men jealous
Not that i showed fellas

The biggest one she’d seen
And it so thick and green
Yes it was my money
And none of it funny

Her disappointed brow
I found disjointed now
From what I would expect
To be the next effect

She said she must admit
I sure had quite a bit
Most boys don’t have that much
But one can’t pay to touch

It takes more than just cash
A big fat wad to flash
A man’s got to have more
To frequent at this store

And so i said oh well
I guess I couldn’t tell
Although a looker hot
A hooker she was not

I bid to her good day
And went along my way
For I had not the time
To stay and wine and dine

And so my story ends
But with no glory friends
To tack upon this tale
Sometimes you try and fail

58 -if you knew

If you knew
how i loved you
You wouldn’t have left me on that night
If you could feel
My love was real
You would have held on to me tight

C:
You would have loved
You would have cared
You wouldn’t have left
You wouldn’t have dared

If you had seen
how much you mean
You would have still been satisfied
If you had heard
My loving word
You would know that it had never lied

If you could taste
the tears i’d waste
You would have stopped out of pity
If you could feel
my pain so real
You wouldn’t have left for that other city

But you could not
though i had sought
For you to understand my need for you
And so you went
With no word sent
To let me know the reverse was ever true

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