I realized 
you’re no longer a surprise
even though I needed you to be
as bad as things are 
you longer shine like a star
you linger like a scar 
a wound I’d hoped to heal

You’re useless as yesterday’s weather
Yesterday’s forecast unrewindable timelapse
I’m trying to see tomorrow’s conditions
Maybe grateful if it gives me permissions

so this is to say we’re done here
i don’t care where you go anymore
you’ve taken up enough space 
for enough time
so here’s a dime and 
call someone who cares
go find the door 

yesterday’s weather
vanished forever
you’re yesterday’s weather
coming back this way never

Yesterday's Weather (#JamuarySongADay No. 1)

Stickup Kids (#JamuarySongADay 2022 No. 18)

Flight Risk (#JamuarySongADay 2022 No. 21)

You’re a continent I’ve flown 
over but never landed on
I’m a plane entrusting hours 
and life and luggage to the air
With a dozen dozen dozing in 
and out of second-run stardom
Edited first to aid pretense 
edited again to avoid offense

We climb closer past the pole
Let the jet stream push us east
We have business in our future
Perhaps some pleasure at least
We steer by wires not by stars
Unseen over outstretched wings
We will make our deals with God
as we trespass among her things

I’m a steward in a shirt and tie 
aching feet on a flying bus
pushing carts popping cans 
to pour out over plastic cups
A dozen dozen eyes glazing 
over at safety announcements
Recited before we leap from land 
recited again before crash landing

We dream of legroom enough to kick it
Drown out the drone of a one way ticket

One Way Ticket (#JamuarySongADay 2022 No. 22)

Karla's Theme (#JamuarySongADay 2022 No. 25)

Fresh coat of paint on the town sign late last night 
It’s Tiffany blue but there ain’t no jewelry in sight
Name’s not replaced but they left up the signs for Scouts
Rotary, Elk and church daycare, the little sprouts

You ought to be riding shotgun
You got good aim even when unloaded
Your poor impulse control richly voiced and dulcet 
still offered up even when you’re outvoted

Tank half full but I thought I’d top off for safety’s sake
She was adjusting her shirt just as I walked in to pay
Bosom like a thousand drowning sailors’ harbor dreams
Hips like torpedoed ships aflame in vengeful angry seas

Riding Shotgun (#FAWM 2022 No. 6)

Jennifer was singing Sinatra 
Not the daddy but the daughter
I chose REM and Steely Dan
My thoughts were across the water 

It was a microphone we passed from hand to hand
Glad to travel freely all across the music lands

Patrick said it was his first time
performing any public numbers
We clapped and cheered him on
 To Usher and 5 Seconds of Summer

Mario never said more than a word
But he sang Beyoncé and Sam Smith 
Daniel sang back eyes full of stars
Before later belting out Bruno Mars

The man behind the register took us
partly Chuck Berry partly Tina Turner
The lady in the trans rights now T shirt
Belted the B52s like an after-thruster or after burner

Hand To Hand (#FAWM 2022 No. 20)

The Whole Town's Laughing At Me

I want you broad across my shoulder,
enough to bear me when I'm a complainer
I want you angling a grin at the shape I'm in, 
drunk off my wine but not off my container

You may want me but you don't have to
If you don't want me, know you always can
just be the wave who knows it's not the water: 
here for the moment, neither man nor plan

I want you telling me heaven is a farm
whenever some sower casts us in the sewer 
I want you fluent in multiple tongues, still
skilled enough to choose one or fewer

I Want You (#FiftyNinety 2022 No. 15)

If you dream in triplicate,
make sure you press down 
so your dream will last. 
We don't want to implicate 
your future without 
evidence of the past. 

You know how it goes 
when it comes to paperwork
You've gotta cross your eyes 
and dot your tees with ease, 
feel the breeze as it flows and 
inflames your supporters. 

They're all cheering for you. 
What are you going to do? 
They require entertainment, 
nourishment. It's feeding time.

Triplicate

Dirty Work (with Bonnie Raitt), Band Intro, Show Biz Kids (with Michael McDonald), Do It Again (with Michael McDonald)

Steely Dan, Shoreline Amphitheatre, 25 July 2006 pt. 2

Normalization Blues

The Moments, Love On A Two Way Street

So much confusion
When autumn comes around
What to do about October
How to smile behind a frown?
It's hard to settle down

It's so bemusing
Will they cancel the parade?
We marched each October
Now they say we were never even saved
We must be very brave

Shall I rewrite or revise
My October symphony?
Or as an indication
Change the dedication
From revolution to revelation?

So we're all drinking
As leaves fall to the ground
Because we've been thinking
How October's let us down
Then and now

Shall we remember
December instead?
Or worry about February?
Mourn our war-torn dead
Never seeing red?

Shall I rewrite or revise
My October symphony?
Or as an indication
Change the dedication
From revolution to revelation?

Pet Shop Boys, My October Symphony

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