Ever since I could understandmy mother said to me"don’t you ever let a man hit you,don’t you grow up like me"so I swore I’d never be like heror my grandmother tooeven if it meant I’d be aloneeven if it meant I’d be alone ‘Cause she looked‘Cause she looked like broken glasswhen she fell to the […]
Category Archives: Cyndi Lauper
Boy Blue
You never knew yourself well enoughBut she never knew you at allAnd when she put you out on your ownIt may have stolen your innocenceBut not your soul Tell me where is little boy blueYou’ll find him standing alwaysOne step aheadFast a little, shy a little, boy blueWise blood runs warms and deepOn the street… […]
Brimstone And Fire
Brimstone and fireBrimstone and fireBrimstone and fire I met a woman at the laundry matshe left her sock in my dryerI met a woman in a yellow capit said brimstone and fire I said is this luck? with just a glanceshe smiled, and I thought, is this a sign?from above or below?.. oh now.. Brimstone […]
Ballad Of Cleo & Joe
Every morning the clock kicks off the beat.Little Joe struggles just to get up on his feet.Waits in his platforms for the right train to come.Sipping his coffee another day has begun Little Joe got work for minimum wageTries to get through another dead beat dayAt five a clock he comes home to changetakes him […]
Sisters Of Avalon
Felt someone calling me into the howling of the wind. I heard the reflection of a sound echoing through my skin…and a distant drum rumbling under ground gently guides me on…through my wild heart… whispering to methe Sisters of Avalon… Sisters of Avalon… Sisters of Avalon… Sisters of Avalon She is awakening in dark swells […]
Product Of Misery
She’s just a product of misery… Everyday she’d go aroundEverytime I see that frownBroken down and down and out,The drudgery goes on and on.Oh I just want to say,I ain’t gonna live that way ’cause She’s just a product of misery.I don’t want to live like that,Just a product of misery.I don’t want to live […]
Mother
Over land and over seaShe reaches out to meweaving and threading the loomfrom womb to wombSlaves and merchantspilgrims and thievesfelt her hand and charted skiesby following her moonMotherMother Mother Some came and built with stone and bonesome planted fields on promised landand harvested their dreams, then disappearedAs generations lose their memoryI’ll try and remind my […]
Apart Hate
somber sisterthis is a strange and bitter fruitbecause you taught me to singand the rhythm in my heartand the rhythm in my feet is- Why are the rainbowsstolen from the skyand locked up in boxesyellow, black, red and whitelike birds in their cagesbeating their wings on the barsand there’s a song that they’re singingit’s a […]