'Cause you're a stranger

you drifted into town
makin' noices being loud
polluting our vieuw

bleeding over our streets
looking into windows breaking
into our privacy

is something we don't need
what we need is you making
tracks into eternity

so take your garbage to the
next train that leaves, we don't
want you to know

how we lay, live and die
'cause your kind is rough
we don't want you about

'cause you're a stranger your
eyes might see too much we
have ways you don't think of

they are ours, ones we'll keep
you wouldn't understand, you
wouldn't like what you see

so get out of this town we
don't want you about 'cause
you're a stranger

(c) JR. 1985

Freshness of yesterday

the rain's hitin' me with respect
it's a summer rain, it isn't wet coolin'
me down, way out of town

in a field where the only noise's is
buzzin' bees, takin'it home as I do
when I'm with her alone

in these woods, the field knows it's
bein' used, it doesn't mind it comes
to bloom

takin' me an' Sally far away into the
colours of the day, an' we don't mind
we've got time

to lay down, be surprised, by the freshness
of it all, our green wall will never come down
will never decay

we don't intend to stay, takin' it home
as to remind summerdays in their prime
where nothin' was lost

with so much to give, little did we take
it didn't break the freshness of our
yesterday

                                                            (c) JR. 80 -tees photo JR.

The rules

there's nothin' I can do, nothin' I can say,
there's nothin' here for you to want me again,
an' you leavin' wasn't on my mind,

when your  love came to town, it was found,
then just died...leavin me no reason,
just a "why',

but there it is your love didn't stay it was just
a game, you love to play without warnin' you
went and took it all away

leavin' me your empty name, you layed down
the rules, you played the game, and all it did was ...
take



(c) JR.  2018

Old Gains

winning was my style
it never ever stopped
I wanted to go on
'till I dropped

a mile out of town
I was goin' 'round an' 'round
it came to me as a flash

I had to get out
I had my share of winning
I was loosing ground

and I didn't like the feeling
somebody threw a towel
I knew I was down

no time to get up
no time to stop the count
no time to apoligise
no time for another round

no time to reach for fame
I met myself comin' up the way
it was just not for me to stay
I just drifted away

with all the cheers fading
with a thin crowd leadin' the way
it wasn't in me to live on old gains



(c) JR. 2018