Got those freight train blues running thru— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —
aching me, … breaking me …
all my dreams … all my reasoning
have brought me here again
the evening waits like a wound
and I’m so afraid I’ll fall in
Reality’s so thin … just behind our running
just behind our lovers and our jobs
waits the empty time …
waits the accountings and the ownings
and no matter how I try
to stay on the easy side of it
it tears … it tears and takes me in.
gallagher
08 jun 78 – long beach
Archive for the ‘Rose’ Category
1978-06-08
Thursday, June 8th, 19781978-06-09
Friday, June 9th, 1978Woke up from some rainy dream— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —
Rose and I parting, again, it seems
so casual and callous, she, to me
and then, as I leave…tears
but, when I did leave it was again
amid anger and that sour feeling inside
that dies so poorly there.
I can’t understand or reach her
she seems to care at times
and to be bent on inconsideration
all the rest.
gallagher
june 09,78
1978-06-15
Thursday, June 15th, 1978Its a waiting game I feel myself living— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —
I’m always waiting, my heart’s unforgiving
and the days pass ever so slowly now.
I wake up at three in the morning
thoughts of Rose and my heart’s hole yawning
thinking about all the ways that she loved me
and waiting … ever waiting for love’s return
After work in the evening’s sunshine
I’m driving home to an uneasy waiting time
and these empty afternoons, Lord, they get so long
every moment alone is an agony
I’ve got my son and he waits … he waits with me
for love to find me and make my heart whole
Between the wine and the mornings I wake up at three
I live at work so the waiting won’t bother me.
but sometime, sometime you’ve got to go home
Three women I know that that love and treasure me …
and when they’re here my waiting’s free
but the time they give me is all they can
they all belong to other men
So between these hours of love and the working days
I wait … and wait …
for the waiting to go away.
gallagher
15 jun 78