Some day

Some day, life will become more than a stranger to me

some day, my life will be all that more easy to live

some day, my life will live and find its peace

some day, my life will make me sleep forever

and even my life it self won't know it did

(c) JR. 2022

Takin' it easy

 and I'm taking it easy

lying low in the shadow of my thoughts

thinking of you in that new morning of our past

hoping I'll find us a peace in which you and me

can have more than a promise in life much more

we can ever forget

knowing, hoping searching for a way

finding a way, finding again what we once had

in which we laughed, loved yet never cried 

yes, we were only living the good times

 and now I'm taking it easy

lying low in the shadow of my thoughts

thinking of you, wondering how I can get to you

so far away, so far out of range, so lost in your memories

of a past almost dead and gone and a future that didn't last

and I'm hoping, searching for a way

to leave that past behind bringing it up to you

into a new morning where we can wonder again

and find a way to live and not forget there's always

a way in which we can find each other in a promise

of a future that will last

and I'm taking it easy

(c) JR. 2020

It never is

it never is easy, it never is
when a storm comes down
with its rain

it never is, fighting a fire
with its pain, an' I know I'm
gonna miss you

hangin' on somewhere in my mind
tellin' me your lies were my truth
ev'ry time an' all the time

it never is easy, changin' ways you
once knew it never is an' I know I'm
gonna miss you

hangin' on  somewhere in my mind
tellin' me your lies were my truth
ev'ry time

it never is easy changin' ways you
knew it never is, an' I know I'm gonna
miss you

I know I will

(c) JR 2018

Doesn't come easy

it doesn't come easy
it doesn't come easy
at all when you rise

buildin' your life
moldin' it to your style
with no place to fall

after all the madness
sadness, tears and cheers
it is a forever changin' wind

tryin' to make the most of it
tryin' to make it win, suddenly
you're there

you've found the chair that
fits you, with a wife, child,
dog and a house

you've arrived, you've done well
we;re proud, but the chair, it kicks
you out, into the street

makin' ends meet, sellin' house, car
sellin'it all, back to where it all began
startin' all over again

after all the madness, tears, all those
years, again you're there, a grey shade
crept into your hair

there's an acient look in your eyes, old,
the lies of life they hide, for the innocent
the children of your children

after all the madness, sadness, tears
and cheers, after all those years a long
day it was, lookin' up at the skies

it didn't come easy

(c) JR. 2016

Not so sacred, not mine

sittin' here in my easy chair its laziness
bein' a gift of the maker, with a glass of
wine in my hand

I'm starin' across the table where I picture
her there, sippin' her lost an' lonely wine
not so sacred, not mine, smilin'

I knew there and then this was not to be
forever, yet these are the nights I remember

and she left me as a good wine a reminder
of all those lost yesterdays where the wine
in the end was our only way we did
communicate

and yes, we drank from it our glass filled
with somethin' that never was now the bottle
lies bare

has run dry and it's clear we lost more than
we ever got out of somethin' not so sacred
as our wine was

(c) JR. 2018