Samples are waiting and she’s demonstrating
A delicate pecorino, plastic cup full of vino
Step up and try it, they’re hoping you buy it
A margin of profit could be lost if you drop it
A slice of America
Our life in the grocery store
Millions unaware of what
Next week’s schedule has in store
Having trouble planning a weekend game
This unpredictable lifestyle puts me in danger
The lack of foresight leaves me weakened and lame
A dependent family stranger
Ample frustrating, cursing and hating
A wallet that’s lean – Oh, a pizza Totino!
Step up and try it, they’re hoping you buy it
A margin of profit could be lost if you drop it
A slice of America
Our life in the grocery store
Millions unaware of what
Next week’s schedule has in store
Back trouble from standing in one spot
This register mat is no trampoline
Ask for a break - “No you cannot”
My manager is crusty and mean
Don’t be nervous, give good customer service
Your children are spastic, paper of plastic?
Step up and try it, they’re hoping you buy it
A margin of profit could be lost if you drop it
A slice of America
Our life in the grocery store
Millions unaware of what
Next week’s schedule has in store
by Royce Waxenfelter
1/22/09
Friday, January 23, 2009
Friday, December 12, 2008
Honeysuckle Summer
You educate and inspire love
So I'm a graduate of higher love
Like the sweet smell of hay on a fresh-cut summer day
Like the full moon in flight on a perfect summer night
You'll be my moon that's full and sweet aroma
My honeysuckle soul and love diploma
We share a delicate eloquence
A deliberate eminence
We illuminate an essence
An equal interest in co-dependence
Like the challenging of an oncoming halogen town
The fighting words have all been penned down
The message is now for giving
To live and to love, two to's that equal forgiving
The mission is now for caring
To warm like a glove, to chose two people sharing
Like the sweet smell of hay on a fresh-cut summer day
Like the full moon in flight on a perfect summer night
You'll be my moon that's full and sweet aroma
My honeysuckle soul and love diploma
Now I'm a graduate of higher love
Like Noah's transition from raven to dove
You listen to my analytical views
And feel for humanities political news
Together lets remember geography
We won't be just a match, we'll be a candle
A burning ember engraved inside of me
You educate and inspire love
So I'm a graduate of higher love
by Royce Waxenfelter
12/11/08
So I'm a graduate of higher love
Like the sweet smell of hay on a fresh-cut summer day
Like the full moon in flight on a perfect summer night
You'll be my moon that's full and sweet aroma
My honeysuckle soul and love diploma
We share a delicate eloquence
A deliberate eminence
We illuminate an essence
An equal interest in co-dependence
Like the challenging of an oncoming halogen town
The fighting words have all been penned down
The message is now for giving
To live and to love, two to's that equal forgiving
The mission is now for caring
To warm like a glove, to chose two people sharing
Like the sweet smell of hay on a fresh-cut summer day
Like the full moon in flight on a perfect summer night
You'll be my moon that's full and sweet aroma
My honeysuckle soul and love diploma
Now I'm a graduate of higher love
Like Noah's transition from raven to dove
You listen to my analytical views
And feel for humanities political news
Together lets remember geography
We won't be just a match, we'll be a candle
A burning ember engraved inside of me
You educate and inspire love
So I'm a graduate of higher love
by Royce Waxenfelter
12/11/08
Unblemished Nature
Steering my feet over rocks on the river
Guided by adrenaline through blackberries and branches
Though these aren't moccasins on my feet
My mind is drifting back in time
Back to a place where mine is yours and yours is mine
Where you didn't get fired if you weren't on time
Where you didn't turn your back on friends in need
And I jump the fallen trees
Ducking overhanging evergreens a hundred years old
Crude sticks and stones turn precious soil
My mind is drifting back in time
Back to a place where mine is yours and yours is mine
Where unblemished hillsides fill my hearts desire
Where currency was salt and seed
Wandering out into the meadow by the pond
From fire red dragonflies to rainbow trout
Colors and scents disguise the millions from death
My mind is drifting back in time
Back to a place where mine is yours and yours is mine
Where nature's justice eliminated crime
Where there wasn't such thing as greed
Let your mind drift back in time
by Royce Waxenfelter
9/18/90
Guided by adrenaline through blackberries and branches
Though these aren't moccasins on my feet
My mind is drifting back in time
Back to a place where mine is yours and yours is mine
Where you didn't get fired if you weren't on time
Where you didn't turn your back on friends in need
And I jump the fallen trees
Ducking overhanging evergreens a hundred years old
Crude sticks and stones turn precious soil
My mind is drifting back in time
Back to a place where mine is yours and yours is mine
Where unblemished hillsides fill my hearts desire
Where currency was salt and seed
Wandering out into the meadow by the pond
From fire red dragonflies to rainbow trout
Colors and scents disguise the millions from death
My mind is drifting back in time
Back to a place where mine is yours and yours is mine
Where nature's justice eliminated crime
Where there wasn't such thing as greed
Let your mind drift back in time
by Royce Waxenfelter
9/18/90
Upside Down
Are you going to turn my upside down
Spit and spite and put me down
Stomp my name into the ground
Are you going to turn my upside down
If you are then I don't want to meet you
If you are then just turn around
If you are then you'll take a piece of
My life and turn it upside down
Are you going to go and ruin my fun
Impale me with your lashing tongue
Catch me in the web you've spun
Are you going to go and ruin my fun
If you are then I don't want to see you
If you are, turn around and run
If you are then pour poison in
My life and ruin my fun
Are you going to subtract my positive outlook
Hang me like the criminal crook
Stir me in your chemical cook
Are you going to subtract my positive outlook
If you are then I don't want to be you
If you are I won't stop to look
If you are then try to see it's
My life and my positive outlook
by Royce Waxenfelter
4/10/90
Spit and spite and put me down
Stomp my name into the ground
Are you going to turn my upside down
If you are then I don't want to meet you
If you are then just turn around
If you are then you'll take a piece of
My life and turn it upside down
Are you going to go and ruin my fun
Impale me with your lashing tongue
Catch me in the web you've spun
Are you going to go and ruin my fun
If you are then I don't want to see you
If you are, turn around and run
If you are then pour poison in
My life and ruin my fun
Are you going to subtract my positive outlook
Hang me like the criminal crook
Stir me in your chemical cook
Are you going to subtract my positive outlook
If you are then I don't want to be you
If you are I won't stop to look
If you are then try to see it's
My life and my positive outlook
by Royce Waxenfelter
4/10/90
Instrumental
I want a cymbal, I want a harmonica, I want a guitar
Go after a groove and chase down the blues
Rock and roll and harmonize
A stream of notes that hypnotize
Listen as the message slowly sinks into your mind
I want a banjo, I want a trombone, I want a keyboard
The atmosphere is sweet with a thriving beat
Rock and roll and harmonize
A stream of notes that hypnotize
Listen as the message slowly sinks into your mind
I want a flute, I want a drum, I want a saxophone
A tune that I can hum while my fingers start to strum
Rock and roll and harmonize
A stream of notes that hypnotize
Listen as the message slowly sinks into your mind
I want a violin, I want a bass, I want a muted trumpet
All the creatures in the ocean couldn't swim through my emotion
Rock and roll and harmonize
A stream of notes that hypnotize
Listen as the message slowly sinks into your mind
by Royce Waxenfelter
10/4/90
Go after a groove and chase down the blues
Rock and roll and harmonize
A stream of notes that hypnotize
Listen as the message slowly sinks into your mind
I want a banjo, I want a trombone, I want a keyboard
The atmosphere is sweet with a thriving beat
Rock and roll and harmonize
A stream of notes that hypnotize
Listen as the message slowly sinks into your mind
I want a flute, I want a drum, I want a saxophone
A tune that I can hum while my fingers start to strum
Rock and roll and harmonize
A stream of notes that hypnotize
Listen as the message slowly sinks into your mind
I want a violin, I want a bass, I want a muted trumpet
All the creatures in the ocean couldn't swim through my emotion
Rock and roll and harmonize
A stream of notes that hypnotize
Listen as the message slowly sinks into your mind
by Royce Waxenfelter
10/4/90
Every Crowd
I am runnin' on fertile ground
Disputes tucked back behind me now
Every detail thing affects my being
I'll be runnin' with every crowd
Hazy bright violet breaks through the rain
And the wind fells mean outside your door
When there's thunder and hail from every cloud
I'll be runnin' with every crowd
See you with your mystic eyes
Sharp gusts whistle through the skies
White spears of light spread up and down
And you'll be runnin' with every crowd
Prints of our feet left in the mud
Deep into fields long since been plowed
Sweet scents from silk left on the ground
And we'll have run with every crowd
by Royce Waxenfelter
12/4/88
Disputes tucked back behind me now
Every detail thing affects my being
I'll be runnin' with every crowd
Hazy bright violet breaks through the rain
And the wind fells mean outside your door
When there's thunder and hail from every cloud
I'll be runnin' with every crowd
See you with your mystic eyes
Sharp gusts whistle through the skies
White spears of light spread up and down
And you'll be runnin' with every crowd
Prints of our feet left in the mud
Deep into fields long since been plowed
Sweet scents from silk left on the ground
And we'll have run with every crowd
by Royce Waxenfelter
12/4/88
He Has Saved My Soul
chorus:
From perils unknown
The Lord has delivered me
From darkness not shown
The Lord will deliver me
With mercies untold
The Lord has delivered me
As problems unfold
The Lord will deliver me
He saved my soul
From the grasp of depression
I am now made whole
By sincere confession
Have saved my soul
Jesus is my savior
So I rely on Him
To guide my behavior
He saved my soul
On the cross by dying
And He conquered sin
On the third day, rising
He saved my soul
From a hell eternal
I'm glad to escape
Satan's dark inferno
He saved my soul
He's the King of Heaven
I know when I die
I'll be in His pressence
He saved my soul
you can learn about it
The Bible is His word
Find out about it
by Royce Waxenfelter
2/24/04
From perils unknown
The Lord has delivered me
From darkness not shown
The Lord will deliver me
With mercies untold
The Lord has delivered me
As problems unfold
The Lord will deliver me
He saved my soul
From the grasp of depression
I am now made whole
By sincere confession
Have saved my soul
Jesus is my savior
So I rely on Him
To guide my behavior
He saved my soul
On the cross by dying
And He conquered sin
On the third day, rising
He saved my soul
From a hell eternal
I'm glad to escape
Satan's dark inferno
He saved my soul
He's the King of Heaven
I know when I die
I'll be in His pressence
He saved my soul
you can learn about it
The Bible is His word
Find out about it
by Royce Waxenfelter
2/24/04
To Build or to Buy
Do it your way
Cavalier
Build your own home
Post and pier
Forgo the crystal
Chandelier
And ratchet up
Another gear
Juggle and jostle
Most unsteady
Contract work is
Never ready
Stressing out, those bills
You're dreading
While your wife picks out
The bedding
The rest of life
Derailed
Hit your finger
Holding nail
Fresh concrete then
Sleet and hail
This whole idea becomes
Your jail
The bank man makes sure you feel
The sting
He made you mortgage
Everything
Next time go with
Pre-existing
Choose a realtor, check out
The listings
Buy a home that's
Already there
Let the wind blow through
Your hair
Then sit back in your
Captain's chair
And wave your hands into
The Air
By Royce Waxenfelter
12/11/08
Cavalier
Build your own home
Post and pier
Forgo the crystal
Chandelier
And ratchet up
Another gear
Juggle and jostle
Most unsteady
Contract work is
Never ready
Stressing out, those bills
You're dreading
While your wife picks out
The bedding
The rest of life
Derailed
Hit your finger
Holding nail
Fresh concrete then
Sleet and hail
This whole idea becomes
Your jail
The bank man makes sure you feel
The sting
He made you mortgage
Everything
Next time go with
Pre-existing
Choose a realtor, check out
The listings
Buy a home that's
Already there
Let the wind blow through
Your hair
Then sit back in your
Captain's chair
And wave your hands into
The Air
By Royce Waxenfelter
12/11/08
Thursday, December 11, 2008
NFL Rap
This is the song of an NFL player
A Redskin or a Seahawk or an L.A. Raider
A safety or linebacker, I am not a slacker
A Minnesota Viking or a Green Bay Packer
Having lots of fun everywhere we go
A Patriot or Dolphin or a Bill from Buffalo
Runnin' up the field, quick as a lightning bolt
A Falcon and an Oiler, a Steeler and a Colt
A Bengal or an Eagle, a Cardinal or Brown
Every time I get the ball I get a first down
A Buccaneer, a Lion, a Dallas Cowboy
When we play in your town we bring you lots of joy
During the off-season I'll be sailing near a reef
a Bronco and a Giant and a Kansas City Chief
The Saints are from New Orleans, the Jets from New York City
If there's not a team in your town, we're sorry - that's a pity
A 49er or a Bear, a Charger or a Ram
That finishes the teams and that finishes this jam!
by Royce Waxenfelter
12/2/87
A Redskin or a Seahawk or an L.A. Raider
A safety or linebacker, I am not a slacker
A Minnesota Viking or a Green Bay Packer
Having lots of fun everywhere we go
A Patriot or Dolphin or a Bill from Buffalo
Runnin' up the field, quick as a lightning bolt
A Falcon and an Oiler, a Steeler and a Colt
A Bengal or an Eagle, a Cardinal or Brown
Every time I get the ball I get a first down
A Buccaneer, a Lion, a Dallas Cowboy
When we play in your town we bring you lots of joy
During the off-season I'll be sailing near a reef
a Bronco and a Giant and a Kansas City Chief
The Saints are from New Orleans, the Jets from New York City
If there's not a team in your town, we're sorry - that's a pity
A 49er or a Bear, a Charger or a Ram
That finishes the teams and that finishes this jam!
by Royce Waxenfelter
12/2/87
Valentines Day 2008
When I’m with you I feel so real
Comfortable, natural
When I’m with you I feel unreal
Spiritual, supernatural
Sometimes I want to freeze the moment
To capture it and stay there forever with you
Other times I want to push ahead
Because the connection keeps growing stronger – getting better
When I’m with you I feel at peace
Relaxed, sedated
When I’m with you I feel energy
Wide-eyed, elated
Sometimes I want to steal you away
To a place where it’s just you and I
Sometimes I want the world to see
Your brilliance and the way you shine
When I’m with you I feel emotion
Joy, happiness
When I’m with you I get the notion
We’re unique, divinely blessed
Sometimes I want to present the world to you
In all its beauty as a gift
Sometimes I want the world to end
So we can spend eternity together in bliss
by Royce Waxenfelter
2/14/08
Comfortable, natural
When I’m with you I feel unreal
Spiritual, supernatural
Sometimes I want to freeze the moment
To capture it and stay there forever with you
Other times I want to push ahead
Because the connection keeps growing stronger – getting better
When I’m with you I feel at peace
Relaxed, sedated
When I’m with you I feel energy
Wide-eyed, elated
Sometimes I want to steal you away
To a place where it’s just you and I
Sometimes I want the world to see
Your brilliance and the way you shine
When I’m with you I feel emotion
Joy, happiness
When I’m with you I get the notion
We’re unique, divinely blessed
Sometimes I want to present the world to you
In all its beauty as a gift
Sometimes I want the world to end
So we can spend eternity together in bliss
by Royce Waxenfelter
2/14/08
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Restored At Last
Have you lost sight of God?
Lost footing in faith?
Talk to God
Lost footing in faith?
Talk to God
Have you lost track of life?
Lost the value of love?
Return to God
Have you felt unworthy?
Lost beauty and joy?
Seek God
Have you lost hope in Heaven?
Lost sense of direction?
Find God
Have you lost your energy?
Lost motivation and meaning?
Receive God
Have you found failure in your choices?
Lost control, been hurt?
Be healed by God
Have you hardened your heart?
Lost your smile?
Be revived by God
Have you been uprooted?
Lost security and depth?
Listen to God
Have you wasted your time?
Lost mercy and grace?
Grow in God
Have you lost discernment?
Lost right from wrong?
Know God
by Royce Waxenfelter
12/9/08
(lessons from Hosea 14)
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Nomadic Mind
This time we're in a bind
Me and my nomadic mind
To predict the predicament
To interrogate the kind
This time we're in a bind
Me and my nomadic mind
To resurrect the resurgence
To retaliate the recurrence
This time we're in a bind
Me and my nomadic mind
To signal the significance
To comprehend my find
This time we're in a bind
Me and my nomadic mind
To forecast the finite
To neutralize the night
This time we're in a bind
Me and my nomadic mind
To oblige my occurrence
Transparent the blind
This time we're in a bind
Me and my nomadic mind
To persuade and prefer
To government the grind
by Royce Waxenfelter
10/27/90
Me and my nomadic mind
To predict the predicament
To interrogate the kind
This time we're in a bind
Me and my nomadic mind
To resurrect the resurgence
To retaliate the recurrence
This time we're in a bind
Me and my nomadic mind
To signal the significance
To comprehend my find
This time we're in a bind
Me and my nomadic mind
To forecast the finite
To neutralize the night
This time we're in a bind
Me and my nomadic mind
To oblige my occurrence
Transparent the blind
This time we're in a bind
Me and my nomadic mind
To persuade and prefer
To government the grind
by Royce Waxenfelter
10/27/90
Freight Trains
Anxiously waiting
Time to go home
Train derailing
Specific detailing
You pick up the phone
Freight trains in my mind
I've got a two track mind
Fearfully hating
Thoughts are on loan
Post-dated mailing
A vision of failing
You can't go back home
Freight trains in my mind
I've got a two track mind
Carefully shaving
A number unknown
Weeping and wailing
Buckets I'm bailing
Of years that I've grown
Freight trains in my mind
I've got a two track mind
Consciously braving
Harmonic tone
Staring and saving
Memories sailing
Of when I'll be home
by Royce Waxenfelter
3/7/90
Time to go home
Train derailing
Specific detailing
You pick up the phone
Freight trains in my mind
I've got a two track mind
Fearfully hating
Thoughts are on loan
Post-dated mailing
A vision of failing
You can't go back home
Freight trains in my mind
I've got a two track mind
Carefully shaving
A number unknown
Weeping and wailing
Buckets I'm bailing
Of years that I've grown
Freight trains in my mind
I've got a two track mind
Consciously braving
Harmonic tone
Staring and saving
Memories sailing
Of when I'll be home
by Royce Waxenfelter
3/7/90
Difficult Times
Blinding
Grinding
Never minding
Sending
Bending
Never ending
Where am I headed
Wear my shoes
Difficult times
The needle threaded
Hear the news
Difficult times
Biting
Fighting
Such short sighting
Pacing
Casing
Short embracing
A broken promise
Broken pact
Difficult times
A doubting Thomas
Honesty cracked
Difficult times
by Royce Waxenfelter
11/30/89
Grinding
Never minding
Sending
Bending
Never ending
Where am I headed
Wear my shoes
Difficult times
The needle threaded
Hear the news
Difficult times
Biting
Fighting
Such short sighting
Pacing
Casing
Short embracing
A broken promise
Broken pact
Difficult times
A doubting Thomas
Honesty cracked
Difficult times
by Royce Waxenfelter
11/30/89
Time Cards
It happened during the war
In the factories, in the cities
When women and men clocked in
And used these time cards
And ever since then
When we all clock in
We work and we wonder when
Our shift is gonna end
So you happen to be poor
Out of savings, into debt
If not you wouldn't clock in
And use these time cards
Sitting in distress
Schedule is a mess
Your work enhances stress
Like a twig in a nest
Still we labor at our chore
In the dawning of the day
We're the reason we clock in
And use these time cards
Outlook isn't bright
When our money's tight
Prices are out of sight
Every time your wallet's light
So we're slaving to restore
The wallet size, the economy
We're living at the Clock Inn
Using these time cards
We all pay the price
In conditions not so nice
I'm here to tell you twice
We're laboratory mice
We're laboratory mice...with time cards
by Royce Waxenfelter
4/5/90
In the factories, in the cities
When women and men clocked in
And used these time cards
And ever since then
When we all clock in
We work and we wonder when
Our shift is gonna end
So you happen to be poor
Out of savings, into debt
If not you wouldn't clock in
And use these time cards
Sitting in distress
Schedule is a mess
Your work enhances stress
Like a twig in a nest
Still we labor at our chore
In the dawning of the day
We're the reason we clock in
And use these time cards
Outlook isn't bright
When our money's tight
Prices are out of sight
Every time your wallet's light
So we're slaving to restore
The wallet size, the economy
We're living at the Clock Inn
Using these time cards
We all pay the price
In conditions not so nice
I'm here to tell you twice
We're laboratory mice
We're laboratory mice...with time cards
by Royce Waxenfelter
4/5/90
Wisdom Shows
Decisive walk
Heroic mock
Displayed for sympathy
getting the most for me
And I'll talk about some history
Gathering rocks
Killing flocks
For the sake of masculinity
Searching for the enemy
And their true identity
Sudden starts
Thumping hearts
Traveling down this highway
Through a state of disarray
And looking for a place to stay
Quiet wounds
Haunting moons
Problems testing temperaments
Using caution giving sentiments
And caution taking compliments
And you grow as you've learned
Experience is what you've earned
Wisdom shows in situations
Wisdom grows through complications
by Royce Waxenfelter
6/4/89
Heroic mock
Displayed for sympathy
getting the most for me
And I'll talk about some history
Gathering rocks
Killing flocks
For the sake of masculinity
Searching for the enemy
And their true identity
Sudden starts
Thumping hearts
Traveling down this highway
Through a state of disarray
And looking for a place to stay
Quiet wounds
Haunting moons
Problems testing temperaments
Using caution giving sentiments
And caution taking compliments
And you grow as you've learned
Experience is what you've earned
Wisdom shows in situations
Wisdom grows through complications
by Royce Waxenfelter
6/4/89
Theif Called Time
I see through optomology
Shallow as a wading pool
Life is one big anthology
And you are but a tool
Antagonize, criminalize
Crash, boom, bam
A wolf who's full of lies
Disguised as lamb
Treasure your senses
Take what you can get
Past and present tenses
Flinching to regret
There's a thief called time
Seconds are you cash
He's a filthy, grubby slime
A season in the trash
The hands spin 'round
What have you done?
The river has run
The sun goes down
What have you done?
Is the battle won?
Minutes start to disappear
The wind has swept it elsewhere
Flying like a streamline spear
The time thief has you in despair
by Royce Waxenfelter
12/7/89
Shallow as a wading pool
Life is one big anthology
And you are but a tool
Antagonize, criminalize
Crash, boom, bam
A wolf who's full of lies
Disguised as lamb
Treasure your senses
Take what you can get
Past and present tenses
Flinching to regret
There's a thief called time
Seconds are you cash
He's a filthy, grubby slime
A season in the trash
The hands spin 'round
What have you done?
The river has run
The sun goes down
What have you done?
Is the battle won?
Minutes start to disappear
The wind has swept it elsewhere
Flying like a streamline spear
The time thief has you in despair
by Royce Waxenfelter
12/7/89
Liberty
Taste the pleasure, taste the pain
Feel the heat is rising
But it comes before the rain
Brave the weather, face the rain
Feel the blade is slicing
A tourniquet from further gain
Seize the treasure, grace the gain
Gold becomes enticing
But gold becomes too plain
Climb the mountain, race the plain
And then soon we're gliding
Through amber waves of grain
Work the factories, split the grain
A free country who's guiding
Through the pleasure and the pain
Taste the pleasure, taste the pain
Feel the heat is rising
But it comes before the rain
by Royce Waxenfelter
11/13/89
Feel the heat is rising
But it comes before the rain
Brave the weather, face the rain
Feel the blade is slicing
A tourniquet from further gain
Seize the treasure, grace the gain
Gold becomes enticing
But gold becomes too plain
Climb the mountain, race the plain
And then soon we're gliding
Through amber waves of grain
Work the factories, split the grain
A free country who's guiding
Through the pleasure and the pain
Taste the pleasure, taste the pain
Feel the heat is rising
But it comes before the rain
by Royce Waxenfelter
11/13/89
Hard Luck Story
Work long hours at the grocery store
Don't get to relax
Do my best and they want more
And they take it out in tax
It's my very own hard luck story
One just like the rest
Everyone's got a hard luck story
To get off of their chest
The brand new shirt I bought just tore
Now I'll have to sew it
I can't save so I get poor
Wish I didn't have to show it
It's my very own hard luck story
One just like the rest
Everyone's got a hard luck story
To get off of their chest
My head's stuffed with a permanent cold
Take antihistamine
My hard luck story must be told
To keep my conscience clean
It's my very own hard luck story
One just like the rest
Everyone's got a hard luck story
To get off of their chest
The way I tell my hard luck story
I'm fit to be tied
All guts and brains, no glory
Are you satisfied?
It's my very own hard luck story
One just like the rest
Everyone's got a hard luck story
To get off of their chest
by Royce Waxenfelter
11/23/89 (Thanksgiving)
Don't get to relax
Do my best and they want more
And they take it out in tax
It's my very own hard luck story
One just like the rest
Everyone's got a hard luck story
To get off of their chest
The brand new shirt I bought just tore
Now I'll have to sew it
I can't save so I get poor
Wish I didn't have to show it
It's my very own hard luck story
One just like the rest
Everyone's got a hard luck story
To get off of their chest
My head's stuffed with a permanent cold
Take antihistamine
My hard luck story must be told
To keep my conscience clean
It's my very own hard luck story
One just like the rest
Everyone's got a hard luck story
To get off of their chest
The way I tell my hard luck story
I'm fit to be tied
All guts and brains, no glory
Are you satisfied?
It's my very own hard luck story
One just like the rest
Everyone's got a hard luck story
To get off of their chest
by Royce Waxenfelter
11/23/89 (Thanksgiving)
Chilling Blue
Drawn to you through chilling blue
That crystal shine that's only you
With unnamed color you've caught my eye
In dark and dim you glow so true
Like Gabriel's wings or Samson's hair
You've got eyes that make me stare
Shouting love and mystery
Like precious gems your eyes so rare
Far away I walk the night
Searching life with all my might
In coming home I find you there
Your saviour eyes turn dark to light
Swept from all thought by a moments glance
Miles and miles your eyes enhance
A mountain's peak or shooting star
I dare believe I've got a chance
by Royce Waxenfelter
1/20/89
That crystal shine that's only you
With unnamed color you've caught my eye
In dark and dim you glow so true
Like Gabriel's wings or Samson's hair
You've got eyes that make me stare
Shouting love and mystery
Like precious gems your eyes so rare
Far away I walk the night
Searching life with all my might
In coming home I find you there
Your saviour eyes turn dark to light
Swept from all thought by a moments glance
Miles and miles your eyes enhance
A mountain's peak or shooting star
I dare believe I've got a chance
by Royce Waxenfelter
1/20/89
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