"Just Can't Last"

I swear I know your face,
I wish I knew your name
I wish I could take you by the hand
If I could name it
If I could just explain it
If I could only help you,
Help you understand

I can see that you're hurting
Weighed down like a beast of burden
About to break your back.
God only knows that you're human
So what are they trying to do then
Believe me, they don't understand
That you have the weight of the world today
It's on your back
A heavy load like that is gonna hold you back
It's gonna drag you down
You know it just can't last, just can't
You know it just can't last

They thought they could use you
Push you down and abuse you
And what's so sad is you've decided to hide
All your feelings
Got more pain than you can deal with
But ask yourself how can this last

I know you have the weight of the world today
It's on your back
A heavy load like that is gonna hold you back
It's gonna drag you down
You know it just can't last, just can't
You know it just can't last



natalie merchant

land beyond reach

https://my-own-playlist.blogspot.com/2020/04/revisiting-my-vow.html

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keeping friends:

at a distance
calm
close to heart
in mind
in the dark
at bay
calm
cool
away
out of reach
within close grasp
unaware
in the know
for the meantime
forever
for later

the witching hour

The wisps of smoke lazily float upward

as the heavy cold air descends again

at this hour. In a moment

the shadows would vanish

and blend in my blinded world of the dark as the clouds hide the amber eyes of the evil moon.

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Coming across on the first encounter

There, in the glacial part of my freezer

A red bag full of frigid solidity

A sack of tubes, holed and rock hard

A reminder of a smile, of a favorable

and fortunate time

Another image, shocking red pants

And a scarf covered neckline

of a face whose smile could catch

a thousand younglings

What does bring him here at this hour

an adventure perhaps, or a meeting of old minds

I ventured unto their table

A cold sneer and an even icier greeting

This face, the persona and being

that could capture and break a myriad of faces

and of a manifold melting hearts

In the end I hope and pray that not one of them

Not one of them belongs to his own

Too lovely is his face to be broken by tears

Rumours,

A place from where the young ones fled

12:56 am

What is the color or the shadow that I do cast? Does mine move when I do?

Does it hide as I slip behind another’s shadow?

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