Blues lyrics.  It's probably not a very good poem because it's meant to be a song; but I don't have music for it and I have no idea whether it would make a good song.




Locked Door (Blues)

You say you’re lonely baby

All alone so many years

You say you’re lonely baby

All alone so many years

You cry about how sad you are

But it’s me who shed the tears

 

I’d be the moonlight on your water

I love the way you make me dance

I’d be your moonlight baby

I love the way you make me dance

But every time I let you lead

I only suffer in your hands

 

I’d be your guitar baby

I love the way you pluck my strings

I’d be your guitar baby

I love the way you pluck my strings

But when you play me for a fool

Oh what misery that brings

 

I’d be your lover baby

But you’ll never love me back

I’d be your lover baby

But you won’t ever love me back

I can’t stop loving you

But I can stop you in your tracks

 

I saw you at her funeral

And your eyes they drew me in

I saw you at her funeral

You know your eyes they drew me in

Your song is the same after so long

But I don’t have to let you sing

 

Cuz you can’t help lovin’ who you love

But you don’t have to let them in.





Poetry by Nancy Sikora
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Written on 2016-01-09 at 00:43

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So many great feelings are expressed in this poem. A love story of unrequited love. Worthy of a song and beautiful as a poem.
Ashe
2016-01-10


shells
It's definitely worthy of being put to music, it's a sad one, I particularly liked the fifth stanza.
2016-01-09


one trick pony The PoetBay support member heart!
right. t-bone walker could do this justice.
2016-01-09


Chaucer Whethers The PoetBay support member heart!
This has some very dynamic lines with good rhythmic musicality in the way the words flex.
2016-01-09


ken d williams The PoetBay support member heart!
A poem is a song with out music
A song is a poem with music
Your work - works - out just right.
Ken
2016-01-09