(Any musicians out there who feel inspired to put this to song are enthusiastically invited to do so. Make any changes to the lyrics you like.) Well they met on Craigslist after decades of failure He moved out of his dad’s house and into her trailer
How beautiful. I had a love late in life. We both came to each other scarred from the past and we used what we had to take on the world. He died and I am left to grieve, to cry, to find a way to take up the fight. I hope a musician puts these lyrics to music.
I am a musician Caitlin. I just received a band new semi-hollow body Fender Telecaster guitar as an early birthday gift. If I can do this lyric justice, I'd be happy to give it a go.Peace and Love
Wowzer! Do you realize how truly awesome this is??!! Both the image and words. I desperately hope somebody takes you up on your suggestion to put it to music.
This sounds post-apocalytic - violence as way of life, and even constructed as love. It works because we all recognize, in spite of the hype to the contrary, that we live in an pre- apocalypse world, everything is geared to it, accepting of it. Instead of a society of cooperating equals we live and work alongside competitors, like jackals fighting over the remains of a carcass the elites or strongman element have had the better part of. The end result of that system is chaos and barbarism. The poem captures that ethos perfectly.
Will forward to the Kerrville Folkmusic Festival coming up in May Memorial Wknd - they will WANT some copyrights and on THIS case, I want you to seize the rights too! Thanks.
How beautiful. I had a love late in life. We both came to each other scarred from the past and we used what we had to take on the world. He died and I am left to grieve, to cry, to find a way to take up the fight. I hope a musician puts these lyrics to music.
Like all of us in this corrupt culture - wounded, confused and with little hope. May light come to our broke-ass culture and a new day dawn...
I am a musician Caitlin. I just received a band new semi-hollow body Fender Telecaster guitar as an early birthday gift. If I can do this lyric justice, I'd be happy to give it a go.Peace and Love
Wowzer! Do you realize how truly awesome this is??!! Both the image and words. I desperately hope somebody takes you up on your suggestion to put it to music.
truly beautiful. -JC
It's as lovely as it's funny - I hope it gets set to music and is wildly successful - deserves to be.
Seriously, beautiful. I have a weird mental block with poems vs lyrics. If you had said it was a poem, you'd lost me before reading. Again, beautiful.
AMEN 🙏 🙏 🙏
This sounds post-apocalytic - violence as way of life, and even constructed as love. It works because we all recognize, in spite of the hype to the contrary, that we live in an pre- apocalypse world, everything is geared to it, accepting of it. Instead of a society of cooperating equals we live and work alongside competitors, like jackals fighting over the remains of a carcass the elites or strongman element have had the better part of. The end result of that system is chaos and barbarism. The poem captures that ethos perfectly.
Will forward to the Kerrville Folkmusic Festival coming up in May Memorial Wknd - they will WANT some copyrights and on THIS case, I want you to seize the rights too! Thanks.
Love to hear John Hiatt put this to music. John Prine too (Rip)
Holy crap! Where did these lyrics come from? There is no way this isn’t from above.
And to think many people have robbed themselves from actually hearing the Supernatural Being, God.
Holy crap! Where did these lyrics come from? There is no way this isn’t from above.
And to think many people have robbed themselves from actually hearing the Supernatural Being, God.
HI Caitlin,
A friend sent me your lyrics.
Wrote and sang it this way.
https://soundcloud.com/coreluminous/lao-sue-lyrics-by-caitlin-johnstone?
wow, the running dialogue in my head of the last 5 years, turned to prose in song form - beautiful. The title is the cherry on top, perfect.
I love this!