Another Familiar Epic Romance

Another Familiar Epic Romance

 

 

Thinking about you and i am thinking about drinking 

not much per say - just enough to take the edge off this godforsaken day  

would be excited and d****t downright delighted 

if you decided to pull up a stool and share one with me 

 

we can talk all night about how the world has gone to hell 

and we can laugh till our mouths clamp shut  

my jaws get tired of the compliments 

and your eyes get red from the jovial tears shed 

 

well listen to all our favorite songs 

and we don't have to tie a whole one on 

let's just take a minute and try a pint or five on for size

 

It fits you well as a blind man could see 

and i think i thought deliberately 

to request that tune you like so well 

just so i could see you smile

 

I've grown accustomed to the fact 

that sometimes i seem to lack 

the kindness that it hides within from my life

I've been out of touch

downtrodden and sullen

and I like to think I made it all happen

and it seems that sometimes 

even when choosing a simple shirt to wear 

the consequences could be hell to bear 

so don't roll your eyes when i roll up in a hideous rag

 

Some of us don't go in for the trends 

like some of the others we both call friends 

and as the moon turns round and adds another year of wisdom 

to the lengthy calendars back catalog of mistakes and heartbreaks 

and triumphs and self made promises broken 

and all the excuses we invent to maintain our distance 

from the one truth we cant seem to agree on 

and we argue with no one but a bottle of Jameson 

and the voices in our own heads

 

Next year will be different 

I know I have said that more times than i oughtta  

because a years already passed 

and it is just another dusty glass 

held in hands quite weather-beaten 

but the smiles still tend to keep us going 

and the juke pulls up another familiar romance 

we have grown up with hoping 

one day well share one just as f*****g epic as that