Compelling Couplets

The entire lyric of "Well I wonder"

It's so easy to love, it's so easy to hate
It takes guts to be gentle and kind

I am a freezing cold soul
So far from where I intended to go

Beware! I wear more grudges
Than lonely high court judges.

Reflecting from my deathbed
I'm balancing life's riches against the ditches
And the flat grey years in between.

I wish you lonely
Like the last tracked humpback whale
Chased by gunships from Bergen
But never giving in!

PS: An awful lot of good ones have already been mentioned. Wonderful thread!
 
The entire lyric of "Well I wonder"

It's so easy to love, it's so easy to hate
It takes guts to be gentle and kind

I am a freezing cold soul
So far from where I intended to go

Beware! I wear more grudges
Than lonely high court judges.

Reflecting from my deathbed
I'm balancing life's riches against the ditches
And the flat grey years in between.

I wish you lonely
Like the last tracked humpback whale
Chased by gunships from Bergen
But never giving in!

PS: An awful lot of good ones have already been mentioned. Wonderful thread!

The never played symphonies has some good ones. I like that line
 
I read the link - I can't see it being Jo Slee, it's too self-contained.

Probably was inspired by Not Waving, But Drowning, the Stevie Smith poem, where the drowning is a metaphor for no one noticing you're not coping with life.

He was more explicit & cheerful about it on the Lifeguard, save me from life song (can't remember the title!).

It's art! It's meant to be mysterious. 😁
That would be Lifeguard On Duty...

The centre of the town is a dangerous zone
Drenched in phlegm every time that I come home
Lifeguard - save me from life
Save me from life
Save me from life

Not particularly cheerful...
 
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How I feel in my mind,
And how I live in the world,
They're oceans apart.
 
That would be Lifeguard On Duty...

The centre of the town is a dangerous zone
Drenched in phlegm every time that I come home
Lifeguard - save me from life
Save me from life
Save me from life

Not particularly cheerful...

It's a jaunty tune.
 
Captain of games, solid framed
I stood on the touchline
Hailstones, driven home
In a car - no brakes? I don't mind
 
but you were so different
you had to say no
when those empty fools
tried to change you, and claim you
for the lair of their ordinary world
 
sick down to my heart
and that’s just the way it goes

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may sound trite but it's true you know
i could list the details of everything you ever wore

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so how did i end up so deeply involved in
the very existence i planned on avoiding?

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yes i walk around somehow,
but you have killed me

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fifteen minutes with you
well i wouldn’t say no

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see the sea wants to take me, the knife wants to slit me

do you think you can help me?

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on their hands - at last! - a dead star
but they can never taint you in my eyes

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in the gardens by the graves
i can just about behave

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so i offered love and it was not required
oh what else can i do?

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look at the blue of the sky and tell me why you held back. did you think there would one day be a bluer sky and a better hour?

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you don’t like me but you love me,
either way you’re wrong

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so what do you think i am
and how precisely could you tell
 
Captain of games, solid framed
I stood on the touchline
Hailstones, driven home
In a car - no brakes? I don't mind
:thumb:
 
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