Saturday, September 25, 2010

Lori's Lyric of the Day

Waterloo
c.2009 Lori Clevenger

Tin cup hanging on the side of the well
Ice cream melting in a china bowl
These are the stories my memories tell
When the sun rains down from a blue heaven
Like little drops of gold.

Hidden in the attic there were dusty dreams
A secret world for little girls to find
Dolls and dresses and magazines
And Grandma's face smiling back at me
From another place and time

(chorus)
It was a big gray house with a big gray barn
And a light on a pole where the bats flew 'round
I keep a treasured picture of it in my heart
And every road in my memory leads me to
A place called Waterloo

Firefly lighting on the back of my hand
Leaves in the trees whistling old folk songs
Running 'cross the road to where the old barn stands
Theres a ghost that lives in there Mama
Hes been alone so long

(chorus 2)
It was a big round world with a big blue sky
But Summer takes wing when its time to fly
I keep a well worn picture of it in my mind
And every road in my memory leads me to..


That big gray house with the big gray barn
And the light on the pole where the bats flew 'round
I keep a treasured picture of it in my heart
And every road in my memory leads me to
A place called Waterloo..

Thursday, September 23, 2010

A Long Time Gone

I took a little time away from this blog over the Summer. It isn't that I was busy, although in some ways, I was. I left a job, had some down time, started a new one, and dealt with life's little fastballs. I'm getting better at ducking. I'm working on bobbing and weaving next...stop, drop and roll is the advanced class...maybe by Christmas.

But I digress..I thought it was time to come back, add a few thoughts, and revisit my old ones. I've been taking some personal inventory lately. Summer days poke at my memories with a very sharp stick, and this Summer more than usual. I turned 47 last month. 47 is dangerously close to 50...a number which freaks me out just typing it...my 30 year High School reunion is coming up next year. I'd like to know when this happened to me...when did I become middle aged? There has been some mistake, clearly. Not only is the number of years wrong, but someone has dyed my roots gray. I do not find this the least bit amusing. And the theft in the night of the elasticity in my skin has me downright pissed off. Don't even get me started on my boobs. Well,since you brought it up..you know the week-old, forgotten, deflated balloons thumbtacked to telephone poles showing you where the birthday party was? Yea...my party's over, too...
Time has kept moving all Summer, having caught me up in its current, and carried me off, kicking and screaming, towards Winter. Life has done the same thing...Spring is over. Summer is fading. Autumn is dropping its colorful curtain all around me. I will look around soon, and it will be Winter. I will look back over the fleeting year that was my life in God's datebook, and wonder, like I am doing today, where it all went.