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Morrows Window
Mistakes and All ‘just like life’
Poem and lyric collection


34 original poems and lyrics
Compiled December 2009 by Joe Morrow

Poems and lyrics by: Joe Morrow


Meekness of Man
By: joe morrow

There are swords and daggers and dangerous things
Born from an ore to sever angels’ wings
And they brush by the spirit on the way to their mark
I might have kept it shielded or hid in the dark
But the flight of that dagger is awe fully unplanned
And I’m left there standing wounded spirit in hand

I’d take it to another and hold the thing out
But they might call me a fool and show me a shroud
And add to the burden alone I can’t stand
Still left there standing, wounded spirit in hand

I clouded my vision
Hoping numbness would heal
I never was present, I never was real
The void all consuming now knew me by name
I couldn’t find a reason and knew not why I came
Then hope bore a memory of a love that was planned
And I found myself standing wounded spirit in hand

I finally took it to my brother and held the thing out
He kept his mouth shut and loved me out loud
Shared in my tears and bore and embrace
Didn’t even try to solve or erase
Oh the trust that it takes and the meekness of man
To stand there together wounded spirit in hand


Wings
By: joe morrow

I’m straddling hells embers, and the pearly gates
Eating angel hair pasta, and red devil cake
Washing them down with communion wine
Could good and evil be so intertwined
It’ll burden the soul
And laden the mind

Life is a language and we must speak it out
Not keep our mouths shut and be knee deep in doubt
And these angel wings are flying me round
In spite of the devil in me

Eating angel food cake
And deviled eggs
To spite the fear we’re fed
Lives the dreams we make
I’m not buyin’ that fear that they’re selling uptown
These angel wings keep flying me round
In spite of the devil I see

Life is a language and we must speak it out
Not keep our mouths shut and be knee deep in doubt
And these angel wings are flying me round
In spite of the devil I see

I’m straddlin’ hells embers and the pearly gates
Eatin angel hair pasta and red devil cake
To spite the fears were fed
Live the dreams we make
And these angel wings keep flying me round
In spite of the devil I see
And these angel wings keep flying me round
In spite of the devil I see
In spite of the devil in me

Back for More
By: joe morrow

Pack up the van, get a couple of friends
And head out on the road
To the wilderness, to be wilder yet and to make it on our own

The drivings’ long, probably get there late
End up sleeping in the van
But the morning comes, Get the fire going
New day feeling, Campsite coffee in your hand

Where mosquito’s are free, And Doritos get stale
Because of the humidity
You wash them down with warm water soda or ale
Because the ice is all gone and it’s to dang far to town
But you wash um down, and carry on
Carry on and on and on come back for more
And carry on
Carry on and on and on

After about day three we head up to pops
Get a warm shower and home cooked meal
Always felt better leaving, No matter how good we did feel
Then it’s back to the woods, our up to no goods
Making it on our own
All in talking about the lives we’ve lived
The seeds we have sown

Then after a week my money is all gone
I gotta go back to work
Drive home six hours, get there on fumes
Smell of the creek still on my shirt
But that’s six hours of making sure our legends are secure
All in talking about the next
So that we can endure

Where mosquito’s are free, And Doritos get stale
Because of the humidity
You wash them down with warm water soda or ale
Because the ice is all gone and it’s to dang far to town
But you wash um down, and carry on
Carry on and on and on
Come back for more
And carry on, carry on and on and on

Begin
By: joe morrow

Has the other shoe
Fallen softly to the floor

And no one noticed
And do you even want me anymore
Lost and found
Found and lost again
Did you coin me
To wallow In this sin
All the while wondering
When will it all begin
Broken phrases
Broken minds
Sayin that’s just the way it is
Caught up in this laso of time
Draggin me
Draggin me through this briar
And pourin out my wine
Draggin me
Draggin me through this briar
And pourin out my wine

Payin dues
With holes in the soles of my shoes
Seeking harmony
In a choir of one
A twistin crumbling road
I do not wish to pursue
When the good I find in me
Becomes all the more undone
By broken phrases
And broken minds
Sayin that’s just the way it is
Receive it or step out of the receiving line
Draggin me
Draggin me through this briar and pourin out my wine

But I’ve found redemption
It comes In this time and in this place
It was not in the framework
It was in a real
In a right now friendly face
But no so foolish to brag “I am so pure”
Just knowing that within me there lies someone
Elses cure
From broken phrases
And hollow minds
It’s only the way it is
If you’re caught up in their laso of lies
No lost and found
No found and lost again
No one coined me to wallow in that sin
So walk with me through this briar
We’ll be sharing in our wine

Briar and vine
By: joe morrow
Been wrapped up in briar and vine
Made it through by will not might
Cuz might just makes the briar cut deep
But will will take you past the bleed

So comin’ sunshine or comin rain
Gonna get back on my feet again
Cuz life is short but life is sweet
I’m tryin not to miss to many a beat

Been wrapped up in briar and vine
I’ve walked in darkness and in light
Sometimes the lights so hard to see
Faith will get you past the bleed

Comin sunshine or comin rain
Gonna get back on my feet again
Cuz life is short but life is sweet
I’m tryin not to miss to many a beat

Bricks
By: joe morrow

1776 started building bricks
Freedom was not a lie
But Paul Revere just what did he hear his name was his he would not sign
He said I smell a rat
They’re just gonna pass the hat
The rich will get richer but the thin won’t get thicker

There’ll be water and mud
Bones and blood
Battelin through the night
And if you don’t get any on you man
They’ll say you’re not doin’ something right

Free the slaves, dig the graves
Freedom saved now being enslaved
Dogs of war thrust on beings of light
I’m quite sure
Beings of light

Had a bayonet
And these regrets
Stickin’ through his side
Left an only son, A farm to run
And a lovely lonely wife
The letter came, But who’s to blame
The battle was done
She broke down then, Came back around
And held her head up high
Patriots pride, In a widows sigh
Dogs of war thrust on beings of light
I’m quite sure
Beings of light

Brotherly love
By: joe morrow

Out on the ridge, of my home sweet home
Brotherly love, is down to skin and bone
Well you’re not your brothers keeper
I know that he done you wrong
Out on the ridge, packin hearts of stone

Superstitious ways, makin judgements on a mind
I heard him, he told you to have a nice day
But you said he was bein to kind
Well I’m here for lovin’ you
But I got my armor on
Out on the ridge, dodging hearts of stone

And up on the hill, where my family lays
I’ve left some anger there, defeated by that place
And I learned a thing or two, about the nature of harm
So up on that hill, I pray the wind stays warm
And I’d give these playin’ hands, they’d never sing another song
If I could go back and heal the place, all that harm was born

Superstitious ways, makin judgements on a mind
I heard him, he told you to have a nice day
But you said he was bein to kind
Well I’m here for lovin’ you
My only armor is this song
Out on the ridge, dodging hearts of stone

Creekin’
By: joe morrow

Time is creepin ain’t got no thing to do
Thinkin’ bout goin creekin’ gonna soak away these blues
Yeah, yeah,
Talkin bout them lonely lonely blues
Can’t get with the deacons daughter
Cool spring waters’ gonna have to do

All around me mother nature sure do shine
She has found me with a pole and stretch of line
Yeah, yeah
Talkin bout a pole and a stretch of line
I’d be plum unwound
If I found anymore unwind

Sun is lazin day end on a whipper will whine
Me and cousin danny happened on just the right moment in time
Yeah ,yeah
Talkin bout just the right moment in time
To pop the top on some of bills
Wild wild wild wild homemade wine

Daydream
By: joe morrow

I wish I was
Reveling in my surplus of time
Here have some of mine
Enough to be a little lazy
But I’m, Runnin round like a rooster with my head cut off
Even had to turn my head and cough
Or I would not be let in
But the trail that’s blazed is the trail that’s wide
So there’s really very little here to decide
Unless you’ve noticed another one
But I’m constitutin pursuitin of happiness
But it helps if we really know what that is
So we can be on our way

Revelin in our surplus of time
Here have some of mine
Enough to be a little lazy
It takes a little time in the easy chair to get out there
And put it out there
And when it comes to addin up the cost
Everything spent is everything lost
But if gold to hold is gold to share then we really might get somewhere
I’m constitutin pursuitin of happiness
but it helps if we really know what that is
so we can be on our way

Endeavor
By: joe morrow
I,
I had been waiting.
While you,
Catch a big piece of our dream.
You’ve worked so hard,
While I have been deflating.
I’ve missed you,
Oh so much.

We talked till one
I looked into your eyes
Saw hopes yet to come
Some not yet realized
We surfed our dreams
Got to know you again
In ten short years
I’ve never felt

Like I,
I might lose this treasure.
Silver and gold,
Can not