David Jackson
It’s Too Late For Sleeping
It’s too late for sleeping
and it’s too early to rise.
It’s your love that’s keeping
me up all night.
And it’s too early to wake you
with the morning sunlight
and there’s no need
for crying all night.
Yes it’s too late for sleeping
and it’s too early to rise.
I’m lying here thinking
of your pretty eyes.
I’ve waited too long to hold you.
Too long since last night
and just like I told you
We got it right this time.
Yes it’s too late for sleeping
and it’s too early to rise.
I’m lying here a dreaming
of your pretty eyes.
I’ve written a lot of love songs. This one is from a memory, a good memory.
Thank you for listening.
Thanks to Andy Derryberry for his excellent lead guitar.
david michael jackson July 6,2012 2012 editors@artvilla.com send sleep
I sometimes think I’m a pest
a pest like those tiny
ants I am constantly murdering.
I have been given a new strategy.
Feed them instant grits.
I’m told they eat the grits and swell up and pop.
It is a new approach,
rather than kill them,
feed them,
they are very hungry it seems.
We should try that with our enemies,
feed them rather than kill them.
I’m told I have to “regrit” after rain.
This suggestion and new word, regrit, via Daisy Sidewinder
If you ask google for regrit it says Did you mean: regret
Forget all the naysayers. Did I say it has to be instant grits?
david michael jackson july 5, 2012 Send grits
Beats Me
I don’t understand
If I’ve learned anything,
it is my
lack of understanding
I have
tossed around leaving marks everywhere.
Lord help me to shoulder
the burden of my own ignorance
and carry it
humbly for a change
and help me not to
say anything stupid this
time
but I have already failed
at that so just help me
to brush really well
and to sleep well
and to remember to
remember the good
times and to
remember
You gave me only
two things to do,
judge not and love my neighbor.
and I have failed at
both.
david michael jackson july 3, 2012 editors@artvilla.com send candles