Time

life will only last

as 

long as life will

until then

time 

will be on our side

(c) JR. 2023

Gold

 

somewhere 

somewhere out there 

at a certain space in time

boundries were brought down

our emotions were a loose cannon

firing up and down the line

connecting our souls something rare

with commom sense out of controll

and yes we did commit

our pledge became our union our beginning 

and then something went amiss

coming out of a nothingness

being caught up in its emotions

beyond any controll

and beyond any understanding

cost me more than I could ever know

it cost me my happiness 

a promiss, it was rejected by the fool in me

laying her and my existence on the line 

and yes I did pay the price 

for letting it slide 

many years now have gone by

I lost her not only then but my entire life

and when I retreaved my steps I realised 

there was no going back she had gone 

she was out of my day and time

she was out of my life

and our pledge our reason to be

now a little old will still be there

when times come and we again do collide

maybe then...

 maybe then I will find my  peace of mind

(c) JR.

Time the wilderness

 

where are we

we are away from the distance we travelled in

and yes, we have reached our place of choosing

and yes, something is wrong...our future...its gone

we are stuck in the middle of time

and time, as always, has a mind of its own

it won't move, it won't move aside

so...do we know where to go

is it out there will we recognise it

when we come to that wilderness, time is

where our future lies, will we know

and yes, again we are on the road

walking through time

walking along its guiding light

we are out there with a purpose

we are out there with a goal

we are walking the road

where our fame and glory is waiting

but will it be our future when we reach it

will it be waiting

(c) JR. 2021

A lonely door

when death becomes
a lonely door closin'
its always best to keep in mind
closing it should only be left
up to time to decide for
so live your life live it well
and when it does close
there's this whole new place to dwell
but you will know you should be proud
'cause you've done well

(c) JR. 2020

No man's land

I've been there for so long
time flies into my yesterdays
must be years ago I came in a land
that never knew hay

no beauty as far as I can see
here an' there the odd appletree
no homestead at all only two walls
to guard it all

it's hard to believe, I here did find my peace
from a world forever at war, this place to me
is unigue

a place where the odd stranger comes running
before a storm bringin' bullets and rain, I help
him beat this storm

help him to a place out of the rain, where he thinks
home is not far away, where he thinks it has a bed to
sleep, where its stairs do not run steep

just I know where he'd rather be, safest place on earth
is right here, in 'no man's land' an everlasting peace
where the occaisional bullet is released

where nobody wants to be and the skies are clear
where I drink a quiet beer, I'm at ease here, livin'
close to those walls, where they can't see me

can't get me into their sight, where I live, stay
alive, I love my 'no man's land', a land nobody
claims, in my heart it has no rain

(c) JR.  eightees

Pieces

waitin' at the threshold of time
as life leaves us lookin' out over
a field where a late season dies

my life is as that season, lookin'
over its shoulder, lookin' at what
it leaves behind maybe with some
of those lost pieces it just can't find

sometimes you're collecting those
pieces remains of what once was
until they al come together as it was

I spend a lifetime collecting those pieces
and they almost have come together still
a couple are left, I myself am the last piece
to collect

that's what life is collecting pieces
until they all come together at a window
in time giving us a chance to see what lies
ahead on the other side

(c) JR. 2019

Looking for a way out

leaning against my window in time
something broke it, shattering my
believes, my peace of mind

it left me picking up the pieces
threads, remains of lost hopes
while looking for a way out

now after many years on the ride
under attack of a healing process
that almost took my body and mind

my peace of mind raised me up
just in time, to live that very short
bright, long lived life

(c) JR.  2017

Still alive

today I was stunned
you dazed my mind
opened my eyes

afraid to take it
afraid it was not true
caught in my emotions

still there, still alive
cpuld you be the woman
I looked out to

it will be time
giving me the answer

(c) JR. 2019

Life

I'm standing here
right out of the blue
in a ray of light
don't know what to do
don't believe in life anymore

but I've got to hang on
just for the sake of livin'
must get through this
it will cease to excist
but it'll take time
I flip a dime

time will be all mine
my life is like a shell
hollow and empty
getting drowned
by a sea of emotion
thrust upon a shore
barely alive

I will recover
I will crawl to freedom
and take it by its tail
I will shake it
be once more
in the running again
get rid of my pain
that grabs me
again and again
I want to get rid of
and be whole again

I'm downcast
thrown unto the ground
I crawl around
where is my way out
always in myself
got to do it myself
to be whole again

I'll take my stand
be back on the edge
work my way back
and ask myself
what do I want from this life
it's not much, some sanity
to live on in peace
and lie under the appletree
thinkin', this life
it is to be

(c) JR. eightees

Change of heart

deep within the wings of time
my thoughts lie bare, waitin' to
be collected, one by one to keep
them save from destruction, by
the hunters there, tryin' to change
them for me

and I know they will be comin', takin'
away the only freedom I have, my freedom
of thought, so I have to run leavin' them
behind, waitin' for me to collect them again
when time has had, a change of heart and
my thoughts again, can speak their mind

(c) JR. 2019

Change of heart

deep within the wings of time

my thoughts lie bare waitin' to be collected

on by one to keep them save from destruction

by the hunters there tryin to change them

for me

and I know they will be comin'

takin' away the only freedom I have

my freedom of thought so I have to run

leavin' them behind

waitin' for me to collect them again

when time has had a change of heart and

my thoughts again can speak their

mind

(c) JR> 2019

Allways

I'll always be thinkin' of you
even if you don't of me
there'll always be that touch
you left behind

it was more than kind
yes you spend time with me
time our own

'cause we came so close
and you were lost in me
as I was in you

yet you didn't come through
you came
an' went in the same way
I found you

struggling for you
as I was all the time
tryin' to save me
an' you

I wasn't used
I really couldn't say
whose to blame

we played the game
which I would recognise anywhere
in it were you

why couldn't you keep me
as you should

(c) JR. eightees

Somebody, somewhere

I simply cannot stay
I've got to leave 'cause
somewhere, somebody's
waitin' for me

knows I'm comin' expects
me at a certain time I will
arrive

a shadow's runnin' into my light,
my arms unfurl, somebody somewhere
was waitin' allright I was right on time

somebody, somewhere will wait for me
ev'ryday, ev'ry hour 'till I come again,
a shadow will run to me all the same

a happy time a happy place, 'till
I have to go, it's hard to break away
somebody, somewhere, is waitin'
for me again

(c) JR. eightees

My share

it's tearing at me 

a lot of hurt inside

all the love I miss 

sensation you find

I don't have much 

not much to give

just the life I live 

it ain't much

it's all I got

it takes time 

I calm down 

take my drink

down it 

love I just can't find 

out there
somewhere in a nowhere

somethin's got to give

somethin's got to excist 

somethin's got to be 

way down deep

it takes time to find 

but it's out  there somewhere 

my soul's searchin' there 

searchin' for my share 

(c) JR. 1985

The core

sometimes...days are lonely and
without reason sometimes days
are filled with a sadness you
never knew

but time will come and heal from
within its core as it should when
you're hurting way down deep
from within your core as it
weeps

(c) JR. 2018

And I know you do

and again you've gone leaving me
all the good things inside of you yet
the best thing in you, you didn't leave
the best thing in you is you and me

and you must go, as you must, you must
go, you have my trust, go to that place in
time, live there for a while spend some
time on yourself, resting your weary mind

as I know you worry a lot, to where we are
and...are not, and you will be gone for some
time, walking the earth somewhere, with me
wondering , what you're doing so far away
in exile

and I'll never know the reason 'why' and yet...
I'll never need to, 'cause you're coming back
all smiles, having made up your mind, about
all that it is you desire

'cause whatever you do, I will always be
that what it is you need and...
I know you do




(c) JR. 2018

Next year

next year will come 'round with
a bang an enormous sound, next
year this time I will flower this
time  'round

next year, I will be a succes have
no rest leave the nest, be on tour
opening doors

with my hand, a rich man, next year
I'll be back, some time next year,
I'l be back

(c) JR.

Committed

somewhere at a certain space in time
walls were brought down and its emotions
became loose cannons firing all up and down
the line

they were connecting souls, something rare
with commom sense out of controll, and yet...
we did commit, we became a union a beginning

stretching as far as we would see fit, what we
didn't know, didn't need was I coming back out
of a nothingness, in trouble knee deep

it cost me my happiness, she wanted me to leave but
in the end she made me a promise I couldn't keep
my hurt was that deep

and the fool in me rejected her last plea, laying
her and mine excistence on the line and yes I
payed the price for letting it slide,

many years now have gone by I not lost her only
then but my entire life, I've looked for her, I tried
and what I found made me realise

there was no going back, she'd gone out of my
days and time but my commitment is still there
is all I've left

and will still be there when times collide

(c) JR. 2018

A fairytale

once upon a time there were
those happy people who cared
for each other

for their values and rules that
were fair, they lived the good
life

where the young took care of
the old and the old shared the
knowledge of life they had

now a change had come to them
where the old were just old and
the young they didn't care

and yet didn't see or did see but
this change had come to be
complete

still thinkin' it was the best they
had its foundation crumpled and
left them livin' the lie

of a fairytale, livin' the life of
something that was no longer
there

actually this fairytale it has no
happy end their civilization
it died overnight

sadly there is no one left to
know it was even ...there !


(c) JR. 2018

Battle of wits

out of the thunder, came a man
more mellow in decision more
eased of mind

more wisdom gained, out of time
many years on the ride, brought
him back

to this time, a siege, a batlle of wits
added wisdom dealt with, to become
stronger in spirit

(c) JR. 1985