Emotions and Feelings
Janis Joplin
Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes-Benz, My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
Janis Joplin
Down on me, down on me, Looks like everybody in this whole round world Is down on me.
Bob Dylan
I see my light come shining From the west unto the east Any day now, any day now I shall be released.
Bob Dylan
And here I sit so patiently Waiting to find out what price You have to pay to get out of Going through all these things twice.
Bob Dylan
You got a lot of nerve To say you are my friend When I was down You just stood there grinning.
Bob Dylan
How does it feel To be on your own With no direction home Like a complete unknown Like a rolling stone?
Bob Dylan
Take me for a trip upon your magic swirlin’ ship, My senses have been stripped, My hands can’t feel to grip, My toes too numb to step Wait only for my boot heels to be wanderin’.
Bob Dylan
Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I’m not sleepy and there is no place I’m going to.
Bob Dylan
And if my thought-dreams could be seen They’d probably put my head in a guillotine But it’s alright, Ma, it’s life and life only
Bob Dylan
Where black is the color, where none is the number, And I’ll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it, And reflect from the mountain so all souls can see it, Then I’ll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin’, But I’ll know my song well before I start singin’, And it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard, It’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall.
Billy Collins
Of all the questions you might want to ask about angels, the only one you ever hear is how many can dance on the head of a pin. No curiosity about how they pass the eternal time besides circling the Throne chanting in Latin or delivering a crust of bread to a hermit on earth or guiding a boy and a girl across a rickety wooden bridge.
Seamus Heaney
History says, Don’t hope On this side of the grave. But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up And hope and history rhyme.
Margaret Atwood
I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed & that necessary.
Raymond Carver
Father, I love you, yet how can I say thank you, I who can’t hold my liquor either and don’t even know the places to fish.