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Death Of The Music


I wrote this when I was really sick, I have COPD and every couple of years I get really bad, for like 3-5 months. I lose my breath, I lose my voice...even my speaking voice. I can't do anything, have no energy. Anyway, last time I was sick like that was the winter of 2006-2007 and one night, feeling really bad for myself (but sucking on a cigarette anyway) I wrote this. I tend to write in rhyme, Terry prefers it and also a strong cadence. If I don't write that way I call it a poem LOL.


Death Of The Music

So far away from where I used to be
I don’t know where everyone’s gone
The faces here are so strange to me
I don’t know the words to the song

Whose instrument is the one I hold
With satiny wood and sweetness of tone
But the notes I play they sound so cold
I know this can not be my own

CHORUS:
My stomach rolls my head it pounds
I can not please this screaming crowd
This isn’t how I want to sound
My hands go still my head is bowed

Echoes of notes I easily played
Before I got lost in the void
Float in my mind and then start to fade
Leaving my soul deaf and destroyed


CHORUS:
THEN TO ENDING:

Remember the sounds that soared from my fingertips
Lyrics I sang out so strong
Stories of mem’ries and songs about feelings
Oh God that can not all be gone
I’ll promise you anything give me my music back
Please make me the bearer of songs
I need to make melodies float in the atmosphere
Without music my life feels so wrong

Country SongFULL UP

Comments

Jaxs 2. July 2008, 03:22

That is real heart felt beauty!:up: :up: :heart: Cry out from deep within.

lokutus_prime 5. July 2008, 10:42

Beautifully written. :up:

Minette 5. July 2008, 20:00

Thank you!!

klonkk 5. July 2008, 20:41

hi, janis j.

Minette 6. July 2008, 01:17

LOL, she sang better than I ever did LOL. and I HATE pictures of myself LOL but I posted this one just for you :angel:

klonkk 6. July 2008, 10:26

i know, thank you for your confidence. :yes:
stop hating :D
me, i hate to live, my face, my body, to eat, to sh.., to work,
to keep myself clean, being dirty, scall, hair in the soup,
whores, dirty underwear, leftovers, fanatics, dog pooh at shoe,
(wo)men in suits and with noses up, superficial people,
small minded ignorants, throwing food away, barking dogs,
little barking dogs, cute all-dominating mothers, drunken fathers ...
and so on and so on. it's an endless list.

i like sleeping, but it doesn't work well enough.
i always wake up, about every 12 hours. :irked:

Minette 7. July 2008, 13:46

I see myself differently than I look in pictures, I hate having that dream taken by reality LOL.
but I don't hate much at all, very few things I hate. many things I dislike but hating just uses up too much energy and I need the energy for good things.
I saw Janis in concert back in the late 60's. Paul Butterfield Blues Band opened the show and Johnny Winter came and did a set, he was playing nearby that week.
It was my first concert, I was 13 or 14. After that I attended at least one concert a week if not more.
They were cheap then, 7.00 a ticket....
Now that makes me feel old LOL, 7.00 a ticket :eek:
Last concert I went to, at an inside venue cost 65.00...that was Vince Gill who sings like an angel and plays guitar like a god.

klonkk 28. November 2008, 21:13

a whole lot of money.
in europe they arrived 100 euros, even bit more.
ok, there concerts for 50 and up.
but i prefere to sing myself under the shower.
it's not payed, but i save a lot of money.

Minette 29. November 2008, 15:57

LOL. The concerts I go to now are always free, I'm with the band LOL.
If there were a really good one and I had some money I might go to it.
But I never have any money :happy:

klonkk 29. November 2008, 18:23

awww no money? oops. heavy.
and you are a groupie? :confused: :lol:
going with the band realy sounds like something.
if your mother would hear this ... Homer: Doh!

Minette 29. November 2008, 19:11

LOL. I'm not a groupie, I'm do their video and photos p:

klonkk 29. November 2008, 19:33

ah, that's cool - wicked cool. :yes:
loads of fun.

Minette 29. November 2008, 20:40

very much fun. then I make dvd's for them so they can study their performances and improve. they are good friends and I am lucky because I love music so much. but of course that's why I made friends of musicians...Homer: Doh!

klonkk 29. November 2008, 21:13

never trust a musician.
they are like butterflies. :lol:

Minette 29. November 2008, 21:37

LOL many of them yes. I know some fairly stable ones though, of course they are older now :rolleyes:

klonkk 30. November 2008, 01:41

you see?
i don't like to stay to long also.

Minette 30. November 2008, 01:51

last night the band was very loud, a good rock & roll band, the room started to get very crowded, it was time to leave :confused: :faint:
I am no longer young LOL.
I don't mind the crowd if I know all of them but at this place I knew only about 8 of them.

klonkk 2. December 2008, 14:54

music will never die.
maybe life is just built by some accords
played on a whatever instrument.

Minette 2. December 2008, 15:34

music is essential. I think anyway.

klonkk 3. December 2008, 22:42

the univers are waves
long or short range, compressed to material stuff
invisible, colored, hot, cold, deadly, life supporting

continue by yourself, please. :spock:

Minette 4. December 2008, 22:12

nature has a musical key. I didn't know that until a few years ago. I forget which one it is...:worried:
I'm over 50, I can't be expected to remember stuff :cool:

klonkk 5. December 2008, 02:01

it doesn't matter.
you are not on this earth to learn some keys
and who says, they key is like that?

life is music (that's what we call it)
tomorrow they put me in the magnetic resonance imaging tunnel.
i think they copy me. :lol: :lol: :lol:
doctors are bandits, they are making pirate copies. :D
damn little hackers. :yes:

Minette 5. December 2008, 03:58

I couldn't do it, not without sedatives. :eek: :yikes: :no:
small spaces... :cry:
I hope the results are good. :spock:

klonkk 5. December 2008, 15:42

i have a tumor
and gallows humor
a ball, big like feast
but not aggressive
is hurting me
i just say meh.

ah, you listen to some musik
close your eyes
and think nothing.

for me it is more important
to know the verity
than to live with closed eyes.
some things seem to be easier now. :yes:

Minette 5. December 2008, 21:52

knowing is always better than wondering.
I'm sorry!

klonkk 6. December 2008, 02:39

what for? (i was talking of being inside the machine)
i was in that machine before, just the head.
it was a beginning but not enough. :lol:
i'm a luminary. :yes:
i'm a winner. :yes:
i knew more than a whole bunch of doctors.
and i pushed them in the right direction.
i'm so great ... :yes:
love myself.

Minette 6. December 2008, 14:25

I'm sorry you have pain and discomfort. I'm glad you pushed them.
I wish you didn't have it.
that is the way I am.

klonkk 6. December 2008, 15:55

i know.
i whish i wouldn't have it. :lol:
but what can we do.
i try to continue like a big hulk of man. :yes:
we all will fall one day
and others will take our place (maybe)
or even not.

Minette 6. December 2008, 17:49

I had a grapefruit on my ovary when I was 20, along with 8 other bumps and balls. Some were pre-cancerous but none were yet malignant so they scraped them off and I went on. I know I was very lucky.
I had cervical cancer when I was 29, again, very lucky, small overnight surgery. I went on again.
I hope you go one also.
I'm very selfish and I would miss you were you not here.
And nobody would take your place, I would have to make new places for them.

klonkk 6. December 2008, 18:45

i am unique, a solitaire.
in africa they say this.
there is no other white man like me.
they will be very sad about a wrong end of my life book also.

but this thing is growing now for, i fear, whole life.
and they made me a hypochondriac (tried to).
now, the thing is big, they have to accept.
i realy see it as a victory (victoria is my great grandmother).
the little doctor, who had the courage to put me into the machine
has gained the laurels.
all the others feared the complications with the health insurance.
they told me to keep upright like a man. :lol: :lol: :lol:
stupid ignorants.

Minette 8. December 2008, 03:05

I really dislike doctors that don't listen. I've seen other cases like this even with private insurance here in the US. Make people question their own sanity when, in the end, they were right, there was something wrong.
It's arrogant.

klonkk 10. December 2008, 15:57

criminal! :yes:
suckers.

i'm so happy my stomach flu has left me.
just some weakness has left in the brain. :eyes:
waiting for next mondey. :yes: :lol:

Minette 11. December 2008, 13:41

I always have weakness in the brain...
:rolleyes:
what is happening next Monday?

klonkk 12. December 2008, 22:36

i go and kill a doctor. :yikes:
no, it's the 15th of the month.
then i can calculate the remaining two weeks better. :yes:

Minette 12. December 2008, 23:20

ok :smile:

klonkk 13. December 2008, 00:52

weakness? - i mean, tired, tired :zzz: tired :faint:
somebody ask you something like "how many ...?" or "one and one is what?"
and you would like to beat him
but you are not able to lift one little finger.
realy tired.
but you have slept 24 hours yet.
that's weakness i'm talking about.

Minette 13. December 2008, 00:59

that isn't good. and I know what it feels like.

klonkk 13. December 2008, 01:49

there are no pills.
that's ok.
and i like to sleep.
it's wintertime.

Minette 13. December 2008, 04:24

yes. it's wintertime. sleep is good. you are tired because your body is fighting. no prednisone? I'd have thought yes.

klonkk 13. December 2008, 04:57

i don't want to become hooked.

Minette 13. December 2008, 05:15

prednisone is temporary. usually. steroid.

klonkk 13. December 2008, 16:24

i'm eternal. :angel:

Minette 13. December 2008, 16:25

of course! :yes:

klonkk 13. December 2008, 16:51

i just take paracetamol, ibuprophen and things like that.
and only sometimes.
all the other work i let to my immune system.
if it's not strong enough, it's balderdash.

i like balderdash with potatos!
maybe carraway.

or balderdash stirred with mashed bananas, juice of lemon, lemon zest, SHUGAR and milk to make him smooth.

1st you put SHUGAR into a bowl.
then the lemon juice over it to bind it
or the balderdash will be spoiled.
then you put the balderdash int hte bowl and stir it.
mash the bananas and add it to the bowls content stiring.
to make the thing smoth add the milk with the lemon zest.
if you like you eat this with "Flinsen", a kind of pancake.

250 gr weatflour
4 eggs (or onyl 1 or two)
300 ml milk (1 glass)
100 ml sparkeling water
1 pinch of salt
50 gr (clarryfied) butter, margerine, oil

bake it in a hot pan
with a soup-ladle you can portionate (it's fluid)
when it's baked on one side - turn on other
then keep it toasty in the oven until all are finished.

good appetite
with poor peoples fun

Minette 13. December 2008, 17:26

sounds wonderful. I had pancakes yesterday but they were Aunt Jemima's. do you do the cooking yourself?

there is plenty of balderdash to go around everywhere...

klonkk 13. December 2008, 17:47

he he.
the best way to stop it is to eat it. :lol:

i can cook :yes:
and i don't speak from fried eggs.
but mostly i'm to lazy.
my wife loves me too much.
but sometimes, but only sometimes,
she's happy when i manage the kitchen.

my mother has educated me
not to be hooked on any woman. :eyes: :yikes: :yes: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Minette 13. December 2008, 18:34

everyone should be able to take care of themselves.
your mother was very wise to do so.
of course your wife loves you and there is no such thing as too much!
:happy:

klonkk 13. December 2008, 21:16

it's about the german women.
they are very money oriented - i assume. :left:

Minette 14. December 2008, 22:54

not that I know of. I am the opposite LOL. but that could be true.

klonkk 14. December 2008, 23:44

i had two german women. :yuck:
all others were aliens. :lol: :yes:
but the two f...ed me up like all the others together.
they chomped 20 years of my life. :cry:
but i could get rid of them.
africa was to far. :lol: :lol: :lol:
one didn't like africans :ninja: (she still used the word nigger)
and the other one lived in a cloud-cukoo-land. awww

yes, all women behave the same, just like women do.
but the difference is in the way they do it.
of cause there are other german women,
but the temperament is kind of slow.
like they have to reinvent it every minute.
it's a fault of education.
the intellectual side is - i would say - suppressed.
it exists, but they don't know what to do with it.

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