Poet of the Soul - Bibi Tanga & The Selenites

Down by the river junior year Walking with my girl, And we came upon a place There in the tall grass where a couple Had been making love And left the mark of their embrace. I said to her, "Looks like they had some fun." She said to me, "Let's do the same." And still I taste her kisses And her freckles in the sun When I play the poet game. A young man down in hill country In the year of '22 Went to see his future bride. She lived in a rough old shack That poverty blew through. She invited him inside. She'd been cooking, ashamed and feeling sad, She could only offer him bread and her name - Grandpa said that it was the best gift A fella ever had And he taught me the poet game. I had a friend who drank too much And played too much guitar - And we sure got along. Reel-to-reels rolled across The country near and far With letters poems and songs. But these days he don't talk to me And he won't tell me why. I miss him every time i say his name. I don't know what he's doing Or why our friendship died While we played the poet game. The fall rain was pounding down On an old New Hampshire mill And the river wild and high. I was talking to her while leaves blew down Like a sudden chill - There was wildness in her eyes. We made love like we'd been waiting All of our lives for this - Strangers know no shame - But she had to leave at dawn And with a sticky farewell kiss Left me to play the poet game. I watched my country turn into A coast-to-coast strip mall And I cried out in a song: If we could do all that in thirty years, Then please tell me you all - Why does good change take so long? Why does the color of your skin Or who you choose to love Still lead to such anger and pain? And why do I think it's any help For me to still dream of Playing the poet game? Sirens wail above the fields - Another soul gone down - Another Sun about to rise. I've lost track of my mistakes, Like birds they fly around And darken half of my skies. To all of those I've hurt - I pray you'll forgive me. I to you will freely do the same. So many things I didn't see, With my eyes turned inside, Playing the poet game. I walk out at night to take a leak Underneath the stars - Oh yeah that's the life for me. There's Orion and the Pleiades And I guess that must be Mars - All as clear as we long to be. I've sung what I was given - Some was bad and some was good. I never did know from where it came And if I had it all to do again I am not sure I would Play the poet game.

"Sure I think it's fine to keep wanting to improve, I understand that" "But I think you're going at it the wrong way" "How do you mean?" "Well, did you ever stop to think about how good your game really is?" "Yea, after missing that last point?" "That's just what I'm getting at" "You're worrying too much about the game and you don't enjoy it" "But gee coach I know I can do better" "Sure you can" "But the point is you shouldn't let yourself get mad every time you miss a point" "Even the world's champion can't make every point" "You can't be perfect" "You've gotta learn to get more pleasure out of this game" "So take yourself as you are, instead of expecting yourself to be perfect" Uh, uh So I'm sittin' in my bed ponderin' what's in my head It's uh, six in the mornin' as I'm playin' with my dreads I gotta work in four more hours so I'm gonna need some rest But shawty's flyin' 'round my head like I'm the sky and she's the jet, runnin' out of fuel I lowkey hate the way she's always sending me mixed signals She claims to start off slow, but calls me babe, we're not official I hate to complicate I thought this girl was gon' be simple Goin' back and forth feels like I'm in the middle of a pickle 'Tween my heart and my cerebral I have good intentions, but to her they might be evil She loves my attention just as much as I love diesel, and I kill her with my kindness Way with words be extra lethal but it ain't enough Says she adores me but ignores me I'm calling her bluff I think that shorty is just horny, damn that shit is tuff Could you just be honest with me, do you just want to fuck? Honestly, I hoped that we did not mix lust with love I wonder if she's serious or just playin' a game I wonder if she knows how much she's stuck inside my brain I wonder when the vibe we have will slowly start to fade I wonder if I'm overthinkin' or she thinks the same I wonder if she's serious or just playin' a game I wonder if she knows how much she's stuck inside my brain I wonder when the vibe we have will slowly start to fade I wonder if I'm over, if I'm over I feel like a bitch the way I'm jumping to conclusions I know that shawty pick and choosin' The lies she tells me has me drownin' in pools of confusion And if you don't pick me you're losin' What are you doin'? I'm sorry for being honest, if only you were more modest I promise that I'm the oddest, talks with you feel like the longest Curious if that's ironic, furious I'm 'bout to off it Serious I'm out of pocket, piteous just lemme stop it I wish that I could blast off in my rocket But I'm in my head trippin' bout some shit that don't matter The matter's over mind when mind should be over matter There's a ladder in my mind that I climb when life gets sadder Every time I'm stuck inside like urine inside the bladder To be honest I just wish that I could have her But false hope leads to a heart riddled beside a dagger So I'd rather stay inside where my thoughts don't even matter I wonder if she's serious or just playin' a game I wonder if she knows how much she's stuck inside my brain I wonder when the vibe we have will slowly start to fade I wonder if I'm overthinkin' or she thinks the same I wonder if she's serious or just playin' a game I wonder if she knows how much she's stuck inside my brain