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.
18 -love story(duet)
Me: ah ah aaah
Her: ooh
Me: yeah
M: If i could i would make everything alright
H: this i know cause we sho got all uptight
M: Id change the past and at last we’d be together
H: we’d before open the door and face the weather
M: We’d have won and i would run into your arms
H: and id melt for I’ve felt the wonder of your charms
M: but instead i then said something so mean
H: and then i had to cry and make a scene
Both:
Why won’t you
Come back to me
Why do i wait
In agony
Why won’t you
Say you’re sorry
It’s not too late
For our love story
M: went awry that is why im lonely tonight
H: went astray so i stay in bed with the light
M: I am blue wanting you as a friend and lover
H: I’m thinking of living again with my mother
M: and it was all because i did you such harm
H: be alone or go home to life on the farm
M: that i’m here and you’re there or so it seems
H: And give up on our love, our hopes and dreams
Both:
Why don’t you
Come back to me
And let’s not wait
In agony
I’d say to you
That i’m sorry
It’s not too late
For our love story
(Break)
M: and so i
H: came back to me
M: i couldn’t wait
H: no more agony
B: i said to you
B: that i’m sorry
B: was not too late
B: for our love story (repeat)
19 -do you want my love
Do you want me do you need me
Are you even pleased to see me
I ask but i get no reply
can you give me a reason why
I should then ask or i should care
Or i should even stay right here
When i could just as simply go
But where i do not rightly know
C:
Do you want my love
Do you want my time
Do you want my everything
Do you want my mind
Do you want my heart
Do you want my soul
Or do you just want something
That you can control
Cause where i go i will be heard
But not by you you’ll get no word
Of how i am or how im doing
You dont know yet what you’ll be losing
But you’ll know it when I am gone
And then the pain will linger on
Thats the only thing I can say
That pain i know will come and stay
But you won’t hear these words either
I just know i will not be there