Friday, January 24, 2014

Lend Me Your Ear (Before I Die)

Get out your hankie.  If you channel Joe Cockers performance at Woodstock of the Beatles’ “With A Little Help From My Friends,” this works really well.  If not, you have a strange brew with the rhyme schemes being off and some of the rhymes being, uh, forced -- “experimental,” you could say.

Lend me your ear, I’ve got something to say

Maybe inspiration, you will find

No, it’s not really that important

Sorry for wasting your time


Nothing worse

Than to live a life unknown

Nothing worse

Than to die alone


When I die, no one will come

No tears will be shed for me

When I die, no bells will ring

No trumpets will blare for me


As I take my last breath

I really want to say

Something important

That will last to the next day


I wish I had been a better uncle

I wish I had been a better friend

I wish I had been better

‘Til the very end



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