Shoebox Rhapsody

She found a box
at the back of her cupboard
a brown shoe box
sealed up with tape
and in it was the class of '91
smilin back in sepia tone

it was dusty
with the labels peelin off
a brown shoe box
sealed up with tape
and in it was a book o recipies
of things her momma used to make

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[Her life ain't outta the ordinary
She's your regular nine to five
And petty things that make her worry
And little things that make her smile
Her life ain't outta the ordinary
So I'll rhapsodize about
Memories in a shoebox

Memories fittin in shoeboxes
And lives that fit in picture frames
Picking up your phone and smiling
To familiar forgotten names
Memories fittin in a shoebox
Baby...you're playin a losin game ]

She found a diary
she'd written long ago
forgotten letters
from forgotten flames
the first valentine she ever got
with spangles all over her name

She found a box
at the back of her cupboard
a forgotten box
on the corner rack
she'd packed away everything that mattered
and then forgotten how to unpack

[Her life ain't outta the ordinary
She's your regular nine to five
And petty things that make her worry
And little things that make her smile
Her life ain't outta the ordinary
So I'll rhapsodize about
Memories in a shoebox

Memories fittin in shoeboxes
lives that fit in picture frames
pickin up your phone and smilin
to familiar forgotten names
memories fittin in shoeboxes...
...Baby...you're playin a losin game ]

Mary

It was just
a seedy pub
Your average
dimlit nightclub
but in a corner
they had a raised stage
and Mary standin on it.

They said she looked
like your average plain jane
she had creases
at the corners of her smile
but i thought
she was easy on the eyes
Mary Mary Mary
she looked so fine.

It was just
a seedy pub
all flat beer
and used up cigarette stubs
but in a corner
they had raised stage
and Mary singin on it.

Last year they said
she'd had a daughter
and since then
no man had ever got her
but oh she was so
easy on the eyes
Mary Mary Mary
she was so fine.

So in that
dimlit nightclub
just your seedy
average pub.
I sat at the edge
of that raised stage
pretendin she's gonna be mine
Mary Mary Mary
she was so fine

It was just
a seedy pub
your average
dimlit nightclub
but in a corner
they had a raised stage
with Mary standin on it.

Straighten up and fly right!

Written by Nat King Cole and Irving Mills

A buzzard took a monkey for a ride in the air,
The monkey thought that everything
was on the square.
The buzzard tried to throw the monkey
off OF his back,
The monkey grabbed his neck and said,
"Now listen, Jack..."

Straighten up and fly right,
Straighten up and stay right
Straighten up and fly right
Cool down, papa, don't you blow your top.
Ain't no use in divin',
What's the use in jivin'?
Straighten up and fly right
Cool down, papa, don't you blow your top.

The buzzard told the monkey,
"You are chokin' me.
Release your hold and I will set you free."
The monkey looked the buzzard right
dead in the eye and said,
"Your story's so touching, but it sounds
just' like a lie."

Straighten up and fly right
Straighten up and stay right
Straighten up and fly right
Cool down, papa, don't you blow your top.

(Take it away, boys!)

Straighten up and fly right,
Straighten up and stay right
Straighten up and fly right
Cool down, papa, don't you blow your top.
Ain't no use in divin',
Ain't no good in jivin'!
Straighten up and fly right
Cool down, papa, don't you blow - your - top.

Fly right!




hehehe.Kinda glad I have someone to say that to me. Your perspective needs a lil shakin up sometimes, reminded what matters and what doesn't, and why hanging on is important, and why to what you want, and why not to what you're supposed to want, and why its ok to be you, without guilt, which is stupid enough to begin with.
Someone relly wise once told me its hard enough to be yourself, dont compound your miseries trying to be someone else.
yup.