Tuscan Holiday Vibe




I can see so many shades of green

Dappled light trickling through the trees

Syd’s chat and laughter as she leans against my knees
Birds' song travelling with the breeze

I don’t want to think about murders and wars
Italian country roads lined with African whores
I’m fed up with liberals and their racist denials
Botched democratic justice with risible trials

Responsibility for trying to create world peace
Is not mine alone though sometimes that how it feels
So many are working battling poverty and disease
But many more whose focus is on making greedy deals

I’ve been tried and I’ve failed, been jailed and bailed, launched and sailed
& been storm tossed by gales. 
Who met Aotearoa on the back of a whale?
Been so low and brought high.
I’ve been sad and I cried, I’ve told the truth and I’ve lied,
I've been changed and chastened by the moon and her tides
I’ve found myself alive when I thought that I’d died
I’ve been a mother and a lover but I’ve never been a bride

I’ve been well and I’ve been ill, 
I use condoms, dental dams, rhytm wouldn't use the pill
Haven’t changed as much as I can do but, I know that I will
I’ve lived through pain that I thought would kill, 
I've tried to die but I’m here still

I’ve often been dressed and now I've been styled
Everybody got a touch tone phone, 
I think I preferred it when we dialled
Don’t try to tame me, I'm enjoying being wild,
Don’t try and adult me, I’m reclaiming my child
& if you wind me up then I’m gonna get riled.

I want to live in a world full of peace
Happiness, laughter, joy without cease
Every human being living a life of ease

Every living creature doing all they can to please


Dappled light trickling through the trees

I can see so many shades of green

Syd’s chat and laughter as she leans against my knees
And the mock of the cuckoo travelling on the breeze

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