SACRED ONE © April 3, 2021
By David Williams


Thunder and lightning
Moon and stars the
Mystery of a woman
holy where you are
in this time and space
against all chance
the heavens opened up
so we could dance

you listen to the birds
just like I do
music through your body
runs through and through
and I knew when we sang
your gift was  understood
and  blues gods blessed up
and said that it was good

BLESSED ARE WE
WHO HAVE A CHANCE TO LOVE
WHEN THERE IS NO HOPE
BELOW OR UP ABOVE
MEASURING OUR DAYS
BY THE MOON AND SUN
BORN OF STARS
YOU’RE MY SACRED ONE

When you talk to me
I hear every sound
the rivers and streams and
Wild birds lifting from the ground
I know we’re going places
That the prophets all knew
Your eyes like the earth
Itself, gentle, wise and blue

SACRED ONE

SHELLY HAS A SNAKE
By David Williams © Sept 11, 2020

Shelby has a snake
and it slides along her back
and the snake goes south
and it glides between the crack
and its head sticks out from 
under and between and
and it just keeps coming
and it’s long and lean

HEY, 
DIDDLE DIDDLE
A SNAKE AND THE FIDDLE
WITH A WIGGLE IN THE MIDDLE
HEY, 
LITTLE RIDDLE,
GONNA, GOTTA SIZZLE WITH A
SERPENT ON THE GRIDDLE

MAMA, MAMA, STUFF I’VE SEEN
I WANT EVERYTHING THAT THE DEVIL BRINGS
A DISH AND THE SPOON AND A CARVING KNIFE
CUT ME THE APPLE FROM THE TREE OF LIFE

Shelby has a snake
And it looks in her eye 
And I look too 
and I don’t want to die
Want to live forever 
like the gods with glee
with her arms and her legs all
wrapped around me 

Shelby has a snake
and it slithers 
round her curves
as she glides on stage
and ignites my nerves, 
getting under my skin
so I have to shed,
get reborn, and never be dead.

SHELBY HAS A SNAKE - 9:11:20, 8.50 PM

Great Mystery
by David Williams © 2023

When I awake
I will think of you
Your eyes of grace
And all your troubles you been through

In the mystery we pray
In mystery we dance
In the great mystery we love
In the great mystery we find a chance

Let us walk through the snow
Like when you were a child
In a village far away
When you were free and running wild

Tell me secrets with your hands
Sing me songs with your smile
Shine the light from your eyes
stay with me a while

let’s follow the crows
breathe in the sky above
knowing the greatest gift
we ever have is love

GREAT MYSTERY - 1:8:23, 2.42 PM

THIS IS EVERYTHING
By David Williams © 2023

YOUR FACE IN THE MIRROR KNOWS
NO ONE HAS LOVED YOU THE RIGHT WAY
PRETTY MEANS NOTHING, AND NOTHING IS
ALL THERE IS NIGHT AND DAY
BUT I’M STANDING BEHIND YOU
IF ONLY YOU’LL SEE THAT YOU’RE NOT ALONE
CAUSE I’VE GOT MORE, MORE LOVE TO GIVE
THAN YOU’VE EVER KNOWN

WIND IN THE PINE, PUT YOUR HAND IN MINE
THIS IS EVERYTHING

We’re all fallen stars, 
The dishrag on the bar,
Empty glasses talk,
Of ghosts who were there
On the barstools and the chairs,
who ran out the clock.
But there’s no life in this
So I’ve come with a kiss
Sent from up above
From the universe of fate
because it’s not too late
For you to fall in love.

Let’s blow out of town
Let’s touch sacred ground
Put away the phone.
Hear the loon across the lake
Who knows that no mistake
Is ever set in stone.
Let your laugh break through
Let your eyes see true
Let’s dance barefoot in the sand
And believe it all at last
Through the looking glass
Hear the little brass band.

This Is Everything - 8:25:23, 1.30 PM

The Owl and the Pussycat
By David Williams © Friday, November 10, 2023

Let’s fall in love like it’s 1932
Let’s fall in love just like they used to do
In the black and white pictures
In the film noir
With a paper moon and 
and some cut out stars

Let’s do it a New York kind of way
sitting in a nightclub
hearing Billie Holiday 
crying out the blues
to the gods above,
let’s fall into the night
and harder into love

Baby, I know nothing about you
But you got the stars aligned—
You’re Lauren Bacall, you’re Natalie Wood, 
In my movie that’s playing all the time

You’re cooler babe than any technicolor
the camera loves you, magic in your eyes
I stopped and turned around when you were shining
You’re the real thing in a world stuffed full of lies

Baby, let’s trip the light fantastic,  
The last tango, it’s meant for you and me,
We’re entangled lovers in the cosmos
you’re the reason for the universe to be

Let me whisper something to you
Secrets from our Broadway show
In the lamplight, Pillow talk, 
What the owl and pussycat do know

Owl And Pussycat

COMPLICATED WOMEN

David Williams © 2018 danjo53@gmail.com


COMPLICATED WOMEN MOVE-
IN A MOOD THAT TENDER OR TOUGH
WHETHER THE MOON HAS WAXED OR WANED
IT’S COMPLICATED WOMEN I HAVE LOVED

I don’t need to tell you it’s a world of pain
And we walk through it every day
And all the answers there will never be
All your doubts don’t have to go away

There’s no black and white where you mind does go
The million stories you all see
And you don’t have to feel any single way,
There’s no single way you got to be

I love the way your mind can roam
Any direction that it needs
Take me with you on your carpet ride
You make me fall down on my knees

This Is Everything - 8:25:23, 1.30 PM

David Williams

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