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To Ursala

If I could fill the world wide web
With a pages just for you
On every page I'd place one word
Just "Ursula", with love too
So that wherever place I go
I would always see your sign
And be reminded of your smile
And the kisses that are mine

How distance keeps you absent still
How time it moves on by
The knowledge that we share in truth
The need to question why
If one wish I could make come true
It would be as selfish still
That I could be your one true love
Your universe to fill

So don't forget that I am here
Hurry back now when you can
In such a hectic kind of year
We have our special plan
Tonight the world is big and blue
And Venus aligns with Mars
A little bear that is "just you"
An Ursula, oh so far!

That happiness is just a word
Real friends so hard to find
That freedoms flight is like a bird
A release of the mind
The moments that we both do share
In talk and touch and sounds
Will echo in these empty rooms
Like ghosts on lovers grounds

So look upon the stones at night
The jasmine sweet and white
Like your embrace, like your caress
In the middle of the night
So If I could name all the stars
I'd give them just one name
I'd call them all my Ursula
Each one the very same

© 2003 by Martyn Richard Jones
All rights reserved

As Aviation Meets Architecture:
Reflection Number One

Voice of the BBC

It's just another morning in New York
Hear the sound of heavy traffic and the talk
Morality of America
In a store front window
As aviation meets architecture
In a postmodern pastiche
And another shrine to the profit rate
Tumbles down

Choir
(sing)
As aviation meets architecture
In a postmodern pastiche
And another shrine to the profit rate
Tumbles down

Lou, Lou, Lou

Look! how the stars do fall
Flailing, shrieking, crying, small
See how the children wake
Mommy, daddy they fore-sake

Mobile tech. isn't it a dream
(choir)
Instantly connected ... violently protected
Openly respected ... privately rejected
Loss of coverage, here we go!
Bye bye baby! Bye bye world!
(voice)
Hear your lovers airless scream!
Hear your lovers weightless scream!
Hear your lovers endless scream!
(choir)
Then dream, then a nightmare, then no more
Then dream, then a nightmare, then no more

Ms. Fyer C. from the hood

See how hysteria grows
Get your angst on, tear your clothes
Know how you love to be …
Ecstatic when you are forlorn
Pugnacious when you are in scorn
In rapture when the dead are born
Perverse and meek and mild and worn
Oh give me a break your words are porn!

Loving every minute of your vengeful thoughts
Who gives a damn! Now we have an excuse

Yeah!

Get yo' shit out of my face
Here societies a damn disgrace!

Choir

Get yo' shit out of my face
Here societies a damn disgrace!

Boyo Jones

I've got a little neo-con
And nothing did it bare
But a brutal invasion
And a deathly stare
A liberal came to see me
Because his want to see
This liberal minded neo-con
That I stuck up a tree

I gave him an example
Of how the world is wrong
And when I said it mildly
His anger became strong
He tried to throw me backwards
Into the jungle book
So I took the constitution and stuck it up his ....

Choir

He tried to throw him backwards
Into the jungle book
So he took the constitution and stuck it up his ....

Tour guide

(spoken)
All aboard the 9/11
Saints and sinners, and hookers and friends
All aboard for heavens gate
Quick get on before it's late ....
Oh how we suffered!
More than them ... (tourists all together) of course! Of course!
They just don't know how
How much they missed and how much we pay
Oh the pain the pain I
Love the pain
Written in poetry yeah!
I have Schweinerei for a brain!
But I'll feel no shame!

(sung)
One day this
Another day that
Today I'm your friend
Tomorrow ... who knows .. that's just fact

(spoken)
If you see me one day
Wearing a nazi uniform
If you see me one day
Come for you
Don't take it personally
(sung)
I'm a slave to sentiment
I'm a slave to emotion
I need to give devotion
And the ovens aren't so hot
And the gasses will not make you choke
And the final solution is a solution
So don't get all worked up
And ....

Tourist A

Even if it's as sick as a very sick dogs vomit?

Tourist B

Even if it's as sick as a very sick persons mind?

Tourist C

Can he say that sir, isn't that insulting truly?
Can he say that? can she say that?, help me I am lost!

Tour guide

You have a point there Mr. C
Pity it's a pointy head
I looked at the "Dummies guide to My Struggle"
And by now you should be dead

Voice of the BBC

Well many thanks for joining us on this sunny NY morning
It's just another morning in New York
Hear the sound of future wars behind the traffic and the talk
Morality of madness
In the face of a lost generation
As aviation meets architecture
In a postmodern pastiche
And another shrine to the profit rate
Tumbles down

(2nd newsreader)
Here we take a brief hiatus
From the task of spreading news
Maybe one day you will hate us
But for now send in your views

That's BBC world at bbc dot co dot uk
I repeat, that's BBC world at bbc dot co dot uk
Thanks for being with us ... today

© 2003 by Martyn Richard Jones
All rights reserved

AMERIKA
by Martyn Jones (ItsMarty)


You don't know how to reach the things that you desire
Although you see them again and again
In every twisting and turning of the river
The summer sun and the autumn rain

Is this is a story of a love that's never ending?
Is this a feeling we want to make real?
Is this a journey worth the pain and the suffering?
Is this the place where you want to be?

Is this is a story of a love that's never ending?
Is this a feeling we want to make real?
Is this a journey worth the pain and the suffering?
Is this the place where we want to be?

I felt your beauty on the shores of California
I've seen your color in the "dog woods" in the rain
I smelled your perfume in the forests of Virginia
I heard your love call out like wolves on the range


I feel your presence in the mountains and the valleys
I see your spirit in the deer that run free
I see you move across the blue grass of the prairie
I hear your name upon the winds in the trees

Is this is a story of a love that's never ending?
Is this a feeling we want to make real?
Is this a journey worth the pain and the suffering?
Is this the place where we want to be?


 

BRAND NEW
by Martyn Richard Jones (ItsMarty)

I woke up with just a thought
That I need to make up time
Even though we all get caught
In the reason and the rhyme

I packed up my old blue jeans
And my photographs of you
I don't know what this all means
But I have to see it through

I rode out at morning light
Horse just headed for the west
I don't know if he was right
But I guess he knows the best

Then again we might be wrong
Just to listen to my song

But if I could just make a wish
I would make it all anew
Not a day I'd lose from you
Not a smile I would not kiss
Not a word I would dismiss
Every moment would be forever

Desert sand was oh so dry
And the sun beat down real hard
Every animal will die
Just as sure as being shot

I guess what I want to say
Will not wait another day
In this cruel desert heat
Thoughts just fade away

Eagles move like my own thoughts
When the sun had slipped past noon
Many lessons nature taught
To the children of the moon

I should really try and learn
What's important in this life
I don't have so much .. time to burn . burn

But if I could just make a wish
I would make it all anew
Not a day I'd lose from you
Not a smile I would not kiss
Not a word I would dismiss
Every moment would be forever

Hear the whispers in the trees
And the oak and pinewood breeze
In the rivers and the streams
In the stillness of my dreams

In the mountains of the night
In the valleys of the days
On the prairies of our afternoons

They'll be shining just as bright
Through the forest like a flame
In a million rays of light
In the flowers with your name

We will swim the seven seas
We will sleep upon the leaves
We will love a timeless love

But if I could just make a wish
I would make it all anew
Not a day I'd lose from you
Not a smile I would not kiss
Not a word I would dismiss
Every moment would be forever

When I looked into your eyes
See the beauty of it all
It should come as no surprise
That I can't resist the fall

Falling into your arms again
It's impossible to be .. more
So hopelessly in love with you

No matter where I seem to go
No matter what I seem to do
You're standing right by me I know
Even though I'm feeling blue

I just know the way we feel
It's a feeling that's so real

But if I could just make a wish
I would make it all anew
Not a day I'd lose from you
Not a smile I would not kiss
Not a word I would dismiss
Every moment would be forever


 

SILENT STARS
by Martyn Richard Jones (ItsMarty)

I knew your name it was reason
And I heard that you were out there
Nobody could find your number
We were searching everywhere

We had too much of a good thing
Wanted to taste something bad
Love and compassion isn't in idling
Our stupidity has made us sad

They don't want to bring us bad news
They're just good old southern boys
Those "itsy bitsy" missiles will not harm you
Just look at it as Dubya's box of toys

There's no better word than madness
To say the things that I want to say
If all this brings to us is greater sadness
Then why don't we just throw those guys away

This isn't for our kids
Or for our future
This isn't for my country
Right or wrong
This is about the way that they will use you
Until the very day
That you are gone

Silent stars
Silent stars
Sent by freedoms sons and daughters
Silent stars
Silent stars
Don't cry!
Big smile!


 

Happy Face In The Snow
Awkward Infatuation

by Martyn Jones (ItsMarty)


Happiness is so hard to find
I know you are somewhere in my mind
The cinnamon sweet, the eyes of a child
The sound of your voice, the call of the wild
The fog in the night, the cold and the frost
I'm searching for something - something I had lost


Happy face in the snow
Your eyes are closed but you know
Don't be afraid
Or hide away
You're not alone
Anymore


Sometimes we just do not see
I left you alone far away from me
A tear on your cheek, the love you impart
The warmth of your breath, so sensual at heart
You wear me in dreams, a hand in a glove
I'm searching for someone - someone that I loved


Happy face in the snow
Your eyes are closed but you know
Don't be afraid
Or hide away
You're not alone
Anymore


I asked myself was there a time
When I just forgot that you could be mine
The white of a lily, the red of a rose
The green of the valley, the purple of prose
The brightness of light, the mist and the dew
I'm longing for someone - that someone is you


Happy face in the snow
Your eyes are closed but you know
Don't be afraid
Or hide away
You're not alone
Anymore


Happy face in the snow
Your eyes are closed but you know
Don't be afraid
Or hide away
You're not alone
Anymore

Copyright © 2002-2003 Martyn Richard Jones

 


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