07-31-2012, 10:32 PM
How blues makes me feel...
Blue
You Twing, 'n' you Twang,
the end result being
the sweetness of your colour,
Siphoning the Mississippi blues from
Your heart and into my soul
as if it's your suffering that
transcends to make me whole;
as if it was you who stole those
pieces of me that I'm missing!
'Coz ya brake me down
Like an old Sheffield chimney stack,
You Chisel at me until I fall,
Flatt (!) like the resonance of
your bearded voice that,
Takes it toll on those
hammered bones of
this, my blues bludgeoned face
that generously always gives me back,
all those little pieces of me
That I've always seemed…
to be missing ...
TDJ Tovey
2011
*Note: in reference to the Sheffield chimney stack bit, you need a quick history lesson. Sheffield, south Yorkshire England (home of AC/DC & Def Leppard) was a booming steel town, and during the 80's in thatcher's rain all the mills got closed down, and from this during my childhood in the 90's there where all these huge chimney stacks from the mills that where constently being ripped down, they made spectacles of it, you could go watch. They crumble like I crumble every time I listen to blues.
Blue
You Twing, 'n' you Twang,
the end result being
the sweetness of your colour,
Siphoning the Mississippi blues from
Your heart and into my soul
as if it's your suffering that
transcends to make me whole;
as if it was you who stole those
pieces of me that I'm missing!
'Coz ya brake me down
Like an old Sheffield chimney stack,
You Chisel at me until I fall,
Flatt (!) like the resonance of
your bearded voice that,
Takes it toll on those
hammered bones of
this, my blues bludgeoned face
that generously always gives me back,
all those little pieces of me
That I've always seemed…
to be missing ...
TDJ Tovey
2011
*Note: in reference to the Sheffield chimney stack bit, you need a quick history lesson. Sheffield, south Yorkshire England (home of AC/DC & Def Leppard) was a booming steel town, and during the 80's in thatcher's rain all the mills got closed down, and from this during my childhood in the 90's there where all these huge chimney stacks from the mills that where constently being ripped down, they made spectacles of it, you could go watch. They crumble like I crumble every time I listen to blues.