Driftin'

not knowing where I'm going
not knowing where I'll be is the road
I don't see unwinding ahead of me

and I'm counting the people
as I'm going by not knowing
where they're  going
no name comes to my mind

and I'm drifting as I always do
to the end of this road
where no one is waiting for me
or maybe they're just the ones
I don't recognise or see
as I'm drifting by to the end
of a new road into my life

(c) JR. 2020

Just another room

I'm travellin' down the road

sellin' my stuff wherever I go

I'm good at it somethin' I do well

takes me to remote places 

sometimes that little out of the way

still I enjoy it at the end of the road

just another room where I stay

the same girl with the same smile

the same innocent eyes asks:' will I stay

all night ' yes, it is I know what to expect

when I go up she's lying in my bed in 

just another room a new mornin' arrives 

she's gone happens all the time

I pay my bill hoot my horn leave

the place another day on the road

another day of what I do well

in the end just another room
where I rest well

                                                                       (c) JR. 2016

Lifted me up high

there's nothin' in this world
that can bring me down only
love can

and yes, I fought my battles
with love it did bring me down
it did not make me win

it brought me unto my knees
but in the end lifted me up high
so again I could touch the sky

(c) JR. 2018

My Place

I know, this is where I'll die
somethin' tells me, this place
I found

will be where I'll end my life
it's a beautifull place, so peacefull
it has no lies

as far as I can see, this place, it will
be true to me, it's what I want this
place

is something, like a fantasy or more
a wish to rest my weary bones, to get
away from the world

let it leave me, near a dyin' fire, wine
flowin' close to an early morning where
birds can sing

an' noise is in retreat, my place as it is
is not much but mine to live, as long
as I can

it will protect me, shelter me from an
aging storm, that will get to me when
I'm ready

yet, 'till I die, I will live in such a way
it will drive 'Man' insane, in a surge
I will take it all

an' finally when I drop, I will whisper
under my breath: 'it wasn't all that bad'
in a beautifull place

so peacfull it has no lies, this place
true to me, is what I wanted, my need
to have

where I took a last stand, I did it well
nobody knew, 'till I fell, in this beautifull
place

so true to me, and under my breath I'll
whisper, ' it was my need to  have those
walls around me

'My Place', as it stands

(c) JR. 1985