Stories of night, stories of day,
Stories of love and stories of hate,
Stories to eat drink and masturbate
Tell me stories – more and more
Tell me stories, don’t be a bore
Stories never heard before –
Urban legends and village lore
Stories to laugh and stories to cry,
Stories to live and those to die,
Stories of birds and stories of ghosts,
Stories of hills and those of coasts
Stories of the Brokeback gays,
Stories of the Purple Haze,
Stories of the tears we shed
Stories of the living and the dead
Stories of the child who starves,
Of the soldier who has lost his nerves,
Stories of the U.N. flag –
Fluttering proudly over corpses to drag
Stories of mice and stories of men,
Of the mighty sword and the mightier pen,
Stories of knights and stories of clowns,
Of atomic bombs on Japanese towns
Stories of the hopeless night,
Stories of the battles we fight,
Stories of the dreams we dream,
Stories of the screams we scream
Stories of breads, stories of cakes,
Stories of God, stories of sex,
Stories of the dragon-slayer,
And those of castles built in air
Stories of rebels and their wars,
Of matinee idols and wannabe stars,
Of cheating husbands and faithless wives,
And other stories of our crazy lives
Stories build these moments we live,
They’re the children the times conceive,
Like that fire of Prometheus Unbound –
Stories make this world go round…….
Stories of the child who starves,
Of the soldier who has lost his nerves,
Stories of the U.N. flag –
Fluttering proudly over corpses to drag
Stories of mice and stories of men,
Of the mighty sword and the mightier pen,
Stories of knights and stories of clowns,
Of atomic bombs on Japanese towns
Stories of the hopeless night,
Stories of the battles we fight,
Stories of the dreams we dream,
Stories of the screams we scream
Stories of breads, stories of cakes,
Stories of God, stories of sex,
Stories of the dragon-slayer,
And those of castles built in air
Stories of rebels and their wars,
Of matinee idols and wannabe stars,
Of cheating husbands and faithless wives,
And other stories of our crazy lives
Stories build these moments we live,
They’re the children the times conceive,
Like that fire of Prometheus Unbound –
Stories make this world go round…….
3 comments:
every second of everyone's life is a story....and that's the whole story!!!
superb.....like usual...fantastic execution....
"Stories of breads, stories of cakes,
Stories of God, stories of sex,"
It occurs to me as I read through your blog that my accent screws up some of the rhymes. So I wonder, is it cex or sakes?
"Stories of the child who starves,
Of the soldier who has lost his nerves,
Stories of the U.N. flag –
Fluttering proudly over corpses to drag"
It's hard to believe that you wrote it long ago. Seems even more relevant today. Irony,you tell me!
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