Don't Know

Don’t know who I was, while trying hard to decide

During all those moments pretending to be more than just a lie

Don’t know what I was thinking all those days, wasting my time

Waiting for my dream to arrive after a long steep climb

Don’t know how I got to this place, walking on this long and bumpy road

So many miles I’ve covered creating blisters or so I’m told

Don’t know when I turned away which eventually blocked my view

Causing each choice to fail until the day that I met you

Don’t why it took me so long to get it all so right

I must have had to earn it all before I could see the light

Don’t know where I was before you walked into my life

But the best decision I ever made was to take you as my wife

Parry the Poison

The more I learn, the more I don’t

Drags me to the pit, but I won’t

Digging my heels and stops me cold

Birthing a nation, or so I’m told

Prime time takes us that much closer

To the pretenders who are the posers

The book gives us the right to choose

Regardless of the end, all of us lose

Avoid the light and use your own

Slaughter the bull and set the tone

The time has come but it’s already set

All the cash won’t change the bet

So brace yourself and strap on tight

Take all you have and shun the light

The ride speeds up and just hang on

Before your choice is all but gone

Dunnit

at exuberant youth i have to laugh
i already took that photograph
doing things you think are new
which, years ago, i used to do

i'm old enough to be your dad
but the newest trick, your latest fad
is something i have done before
yet you bring it freshness, and do it more

i grew my hair down to my waist
and if someone said "try this" i had a taste
bell bottom jeans with flared cuff
and tie dye t-shirts.psychedelic stuff

i used to wear a leather vest
with no shirt to show off my hairy chest
golden hoop earring in my left ear
(if you pierced the right one it was considered queer)

yep, we were rebels without a cause
we had our love ins, we had our flaws
sugar cubes laced with LSD 25
at smoked out concerts, puffin' live

i played in rock bands, drove a 69' Stang
and always tried the latest thang
i loved the ladies more than life
even made a couple of them my wife

i see the kids on the scene today
their attitudes, the music they play
sometimes they surprise me, i cannot lie
but when i become my parents...it's time to die

i know i reached the highest highs
lived my life in laughs and sighs
and you young folks, my heart..you've won it
but believe when i say....
been there and done it

Quin Overman ( I think)