http://www.daypoems.net/poems/359.html
Thomas The Rhymer
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/n/nina-simone/100640.html
Pirate Jenny
http://www.musicfactory2.co.uk/Lyrics/Rock/Morrissey/Forgivenjesus.html
I Have Forgiven Jesus
ONE SHORT SONG (words and music © Adrian May 1996)
Words like loaves rise for the day
And I’m used to throwing my words away
But they’re happening now to take you through it
A long day’s words sufficient unto it
Though these were made to throw I know
Still with some force I’ll learn to throw
And you can write right and you can right wrong
But you have to be simple approaching the moment in one short song
In the school, on the coach, on the holiday
When coming, when going, when the wall’s in the way
At the end of the night, in the morning’s cock crow
When you know what you feel, when you feel you don’t know
Drunk or sober it won’t be long
Before you resort to a simple song
Chorus +
And it’s just like love, and it lasts as long
And you learn to be simple approaching your lover with one short song
I pinned my lines to this paper mast
And wrote there how sweet that this will not last
Like the wind itself that blows life into souls
Absent and present and full of holes
That blows us back home or down to drown
I sink or swim in a paper crown
Chorus +
One inspiring breath to which words belong
Sailing away and approaching forever in one short song
New ways of taking our words each day
Too dangerous to speak now I heard them say
But someone used to the gun and the riot
Said it’s more dangerous to keep quiet
Like the mad old girl in the ward I saw
I’m glad to be singing Five Minutes More
Chorus +
In her dying voice with a heart so strong
And we’ll all be that simple approaching the moment with one short song