Times is hard like
Concrete got us
Walking down sidewalks
Watching dreams drive by
In luxury sedans

The same hands
We use to pray with
be balled in fists
Fighting the inclination
To knock the shit out of
Whatever unfortunate soul
Passes us by

Reminds us of opportunity

How he looked us up and down
Dogged us out with his eyes
And not a glance in our direction

A lesson in love

A gesture cant
buy you happiness either
Neither can money
But at least it can pay some bills
So happiness could seem
More affordable

Phone connections be the first to go
No one to call for help anyway
So why not cut the loose strings
That hold us together

Memories of a time
when life wasn’t granite
We just took it that way

Now every day is made of stone

amaZing
isn't it?

>Times is hard like
>Concrete got us
>Walking down sidewalks
>Watching dreams drive by
>In luxury sedans
>
>The same hands
>We use to pray with
>be balled in fists
>Fighting the inclination
>To knock the shit out of
>Whatever unfortunate soul
>Passes us by
>
>Reminds us of opportunity
>
>How he looked us up and down
>Dogged us out with his eyes
>And not a glance in our direction
>
>A lesson in love
>
>A gesture cant
>buy you happiness either
>Neither can money
>But at least it can pay some bills
>So happiness could seem
>More affordable
>
>Phone connections be the first to go
>No one to call for help anyway
>So why not cut the loose strings
>That hold us together
>
>Memories of a time
>when life wasn’t granite
>We just took it that way
>
>Now every day is made of stone

Got damn SPIT THAT TRUTH!!!!

I am feeling you 110% on this one Frank. Im goin trough it so this connected with me on a very deep level. thanks for posting man.

peace

I've just been listening to a Drive-By Truckers album from a few years ago, and this resonated on the same wavelength - an everyday despair, a remembering, and a trying to keep it together.

You might give them a listen some time - unstoppable alt-country Southern rockers.

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Something like Eldridge
Cleaver meets John Lennon

"A lesson in love

A gesture cant
buy you happiness either
Neither can money
But at least it can pay some bills
So happiness could seem
More affordable"

Yeah!

They talk alot of shit, but thats after I'm gone, cause they the fear me in the physical form. Let it be known Im troublesome.
~~Tupac Shakur~~


Get yours by any means. Otherwise you just might not know what any means.
~~Me~~

i liked ur other piece maybe a lil better
was more succinct
but this...had a lot of freshness enclosed
dug

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how i missed this the first time....


these lines had meaning for me:

The same hands
We use to pray with
be balled in fists
Fighting the inclination
To knock the shit out of
Whatever unfortunate soul
Passes us by


miss k

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if you didn't define yourself for yourself you'd be crunched into other peoples fantasies of you an eaten alive.

audre lorde

-T
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"rick ross got old african woman swag" (c)nayaa

glad i dug this out
loved it too
another perspective came thru in the comparison life being as hard as rock and metal (the title)
really l;ike the phone being the first to go line LMAO

"keep pennin till the earth birth's your rightful seed then nurture it wit more ink..."
ASIEM
"Kuun fiyah Kuun" Quran
(Be and it is)
" A writer takes his pen to write the words again that all in love is fair" Stevie Wonder

Loved it...


>Times is hard like
>Concrete got us
>Walking down sidewalks
>Watching dreams drive by
>In luxury sedans

and...

>A gesture cant
>buy you happiness either
>Neither can money
>But at least it can pay some bills
>So happiness could seem
>More affordable