
The Kelly Song Collective
Song To Save My Life
The coffee’s hot,
and the words that I haven’t caught
make every line a fisher’s knot.
Oh, the rusty hook in me.
The wind, she sings.
I could steal a song from beneath her wings,
but my mind’s on bigger things.
I’ll just let her fly.
And even I know, I know someone will say
I couldn’t write a song to save my life today.
The neighbours talk.
Hear them whisper around this writer’s block
like the teasing of a ticking clock.
Oh, the spaces in between.
The paper’s stare
like a beaten flag in broken air
makes my prison camp this kitchen chair.
And the cavalry’s gone home.
The whisky’s strong.
She and I, we get along.
Then she muscles in on my song.
And I let her have her way.
The dreams I dream disappear like summer steam
in the morning when the kettle screams all the water’s gone.
The coffee’s hot.
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© Audsongs 2018
