Jimi Hendrix
Ghost
Friend in my solitude
Talking to me
From a concert
Thirty years ago
In Mile High Stadium
You're mumbling Jimi
I can make out your words
Clouds all around my heart
And my mind
Which direction do I turn
And will I find anyone
In the turning
Or just another
Chapter and verse of
The Secrets of Solitude
Ghosts of Capitol Hill
Of Brown's Bluff
Of Teapot Dome
And Bowling Alleys
Turned to Shooting Galleries
You sing Machine Gun
At the Fillmore on New Year's Eve
A birthday to some
Another Chapter and verse of
The Secrets of Solitude for many.
Pause
Twist
Sunshine on a tree out my window
Squirrel comes to my patio door
Looking for a friend
I send squirrel away
Go talk crazy somewhere else
Go play voodoo in the darkness
Persistently
And the sun will come up on schedule
And another day another dime
And the morning coffee is
Still the morning coffee
Ghosts of Denver
Singing with me in my solitude
Tell me where to find a space
A home
Where me and my friends can join
In good company
And share joys or just goofing nothingness
Help me find that space
And I may find some peace
In my Solitude.
Love is a powerful and strange
Commodity
No doubt in my heart
Looking for my shoes
Find my sandals
Walk outside to water my garden
Adjust some pebbles
Some grains of rock
Movement in the universe
So slight
And yet so powerful in potential
The movement of a single pebble
Can change the course of IT ALL
Like if the Titanic missed the ice
And the cross dressing men
Didn't have to yell women and children first
Stepping out of my Solitude
I wonder if I will find anything
Or anyone
That can spark me to feel again.
That will be a nice spark.
Strike another match and start anew
I've heard that one before
Easier said than done
But I ain't fighting fate
So I'm on that Titanic
Come hell or high water
Just floating a boat called
Sisyphus
With Jimi and the Gypsys
On the jukebox.
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