Saturday, June 30, 2012

Seeds Will Remain


I am not a farmer

You can take away

From the land

That he has stood on

Since the first day



I am just a farmer

Who has a fear of running

From this farm that I will tend

Until the very last sunset




You can burn the grass but not the seeds

Seeds will remain

Until washed away by the red rain

But they won’t disappear

They will just appear somewhere else

And elsewhere there will be grass again

So you can take away the grass

But in the end, the grass will win



You can get rid of this land

But you cannot get rid of me

My spirit lasts eternally

In this land upon which I stand



So I am not just a farmer

I am a spirit just like you

Now, can you see the other side of the blue?

Or do you still want to take away all of my greens?



                                 Inspired by Bill Frisell's "I Am Not a Farmer" from the album Disfarmer


Sunday, June 3, 2012

Dreams of a Wild Guy

They said his dreams were crazy
They said he would never make it
Now look at him, he’s a star
And he is gonna go so far
Maybe to another galaxy

Who knows where this guy will be
As far as I can see he will make it somewhere
That somewhere is to be determined
But that is one determined guy
And yeah he might be a little shy
But man can he fly

Dreams might seem crazy sometimes
But sometimes they take us to places we never thought possible
And possibly we might wake up in the middle of one, one day
At least that is what I say