Poem #3: Never Scared
it’s fun to wonder
what might be
if we were never scared…
it’s fun to wonder
what might be
if we were never scared…
Track: San Diego Serenade
Length: 3:30
Album: The Heart of a Saturday Night (1974)
Artist: Tom Waits
Songwriter: Tom Waits
Favorite part: “I never saw the morning till I stayed up all night…
Read Morelast night
i saw you in a dream
i couldn’t tell if it was today
or tomorrow
you were standing on a corner…
Track: Funeral
Length: 3:52
Album: Stranger in the Alps (2017)
Artist: Phoebe Bridgers
Songwriter: Phoebe Bridgers
Favorite part: “And I don’t need you to tell me what that means…
Read Morehow do you start?
where do you end?
it only takes one
grandpa said…
Track: Somewhere North of Nashville
Length: 1:51
Album: Western Stars (2018)
Artist: Bruce Springsteen
Songwriter: Bruce Springsteen
Favorite part: “Now the heart’s unsteady, and the night is still…
Read MoreTrack: Wasted and Rollin’
Length: 3:52
Album: Down Fell the Doves (2013)
Artist: Amanda Shires
Songwriter: Amanda Shires
Favorite part: “Holding onto you holding onto me…
Read MoreTrack: Have Love, Will Travel
Length: 4:05
Album: The Last DJ (2002)
Artist: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Songwriter: Tom Petty
Favorite part: “You never had a chance, did you baby…”
Read MoreTrack: The Waiting
Length: 3:58
Album: Hard Promises (1981)
Artist: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Songwriters: Tom Petty
Favorite part: “The waiting is the hardest part…
Read MoreRecently, someone asked me, “Why do you write about love so much?”
I responded, “Why are you alive?”
They looked at me like I had seven heads, but even if I had three days, I couldn’t pick a better response. Chew on that for a while, I thought. There’s plenty of meat there for you. Enough to keep you fed for a week. Maybe a lifetime, I can only hope.
You want me to spell it out for you?…
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