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Thank you Phill  I enjoyed your two poems   http://www.chordie.com/forum/viewtopic. … 91#p184691

Phill Glad you liked Sam.  I was wondering if there is a Chordian who  writes songs or poems with the intention of making people laugh?    I know up there in the United Kindom there is one funniest poets I know of Pam Ayers.. I will attach a video link of her reciting one of her poems.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4oydSZTAns&t=21s

TIG I like that Nashville magic you got going on there with that  lady.

I love that Phill It's not me that writes the songs its my pen. I supose all Chordians agree that,  it's not true that all the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.  I remember my Grandpah telling me the pen is mightier then the shovel. Maree tells me sometimes what comes out my pen is better then what comes out of my  mouth.
Love, romance and passion are great subjects to write and sing about.

The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows. Frank Zappa

Jim
Your song is a good reminder to remember to treat each moment as if it's your last

“Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.”
― Marcus Aurelius, The Emperor's Handbook
“You need to make time for your family no matter what happens in your life”
― Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook

C G That is a good thing about songs ,poetry and art is we can all put our perspective on it. A  song can be as  sad as the  listener or a memory that brings a tear of joy.
The Question is not what we are looking at, it is what we see.

A flower is a weed seen through joyful eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

In a rapidly ascending balloon were two men.
One watched the earth getting farther and farther away.
One watched the stars getting nearer and nearer.
~George Jean Nathan, "Viewpoint," A Book Without a Title, 1918

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
― Lao Tzu

Thank you Phill .

Thank you Jandal I had that song sitting there for a while I wasn't happy with my voice and was  originally going to do it with piano. Unfortunately my health got in the way before I could figure a piano version. As I play by feel it means I am not that good at writing down music.. I like it when Maree has a go at one of my songs but it doesnt happen often.. I was hoping she would play piano for me on it but she thought my guitar was all it needed. When I saw Tenement Funster poem Defying Gravity it made remember it. I thought  I should at least put it up in the hope someone else might want to have a go at it.

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
– Lao Tzu

Jim Thank you for your interest.  I thought you might be also interested to know that Joe Walsh of the Eagles has a special connection to Maori and New Zealand.  Below is a short article that might interest you writen a few years back..  He had a life changing experience while here.
There is a bit of a long video on youtube of the Powhiri that was held and him speaking but this short article tells the story just as well.

American rocker Joe Walsh has returned to the site of his life-changing "epiphany" in Hawke's Bay with a warning about living life in the fast lane.
The 67-year-old Eagles guitarist visited Otatara Pa, near Taradale, on Tuesday where he was welcomed by the locals and treated to a rendition of the band's hit song Hotel California  performed by school children.
It was at Otatara Pa 26 years ago that Walsh sat on a hill overlooking Hawke's Bay and had a vision that he credits with setting him on the path towards sobriety

"I don't understand it, I don't need to, but I had a moment of clarity standing up on top and looking out at the valley," he said.
"I remember that vividly and I don't know where that came from. I got goosebumps."
Walsh said he went home after that with a different mindset.
Giving up drugs and alcohol was the hardest thing he had ever done, but also the most rewarding, he said.
"Today, I haven't had a drink or done any drugs in 21 years ... and a lot of the guys that I used to run with didn't make it. They're gone."
Walsh's career in the music industry has spanned more than 40 years, but he is best known as a keyboardist and guitarist for Rock and Roll hall of famers the Eagles, who he joined in 1975.
The band, which is considered to be one of the greatest American rock acts of all time, played two shows in Auckland over the weekend as part of their History of the Eagles tour

Walsh's latest visit to Otatara Pa is his third. After his epiphany in 1989 he returned in 2004 to pay homage to the place and its people.
"The first time I came here, I was in trouble," Walsh said on Tuesday.
"When you get successful at something, and you're young, it's easy to lose your perspective. It's easy to forget what you were doing that got you successful, and that happened to me."
At the time, alcohol and drugs were eating a hole in his heart where love and family should have been, he said.
"I could still function but I knew I was in trouble."
The Maori people would always be special to him, because they gave him his life back, he said.
"I'm here to say thank you ... I have a wonderful life now, and I have a family now. That's new to me, but it's wonderful. It's what healed me."
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Thank you Jim my wife Maree helped with the harmony on the chorus. I have posted the lyrics on  here in the poem section and on soundcloud for anyone thats interested.