Long Arrow and the Lost Amulet

When something goes wrong do you try and escape by fantasizing you're someone else? This morning I got home and couldn't find my keys in my pocket.I was going to have to backtrack and try and find it. So .. this is my tale.

Long Arrow sighed with relief as he arrived at the camp. He reached down to touch his amulet for reassurance ...what? Where was his amulet. With a sinking heart he remembered the clinking sound along the trail some miles back .. could he have dropped it?

He was cold and hungry .. but without the amulet, he could not enter his camp that was magically sealed against intruders not bearing one of the amulets.

Steeling his will for the long discouraging journey back, he stripped his gear down to the essentials to make for a lighter trip. He unloaded the goods that he had brought back to the camp and put down the tools and gear he would not need for this trip. Speed was of the essence, lest another warrior or demon spirit come across the amulet and pick it up.

Swiftly but carefully retracing his path, he started his relaxed, ground-eating lope. He tried to visualize where he had heard that sound ..was it where the path approached the Dundas rock?

The miles faded into a blur but With a sinking heart he was fast approaching the Dundas rock and had not yet come across the amulet. He would have to continue his journey further, all the way to the trading post. Perhaps he had dropped it there before loading up for the trip back.

Grimly he tried not to think of the consequences if he could not recover the amulet. Without the amulet, he would have to try and survive until another warrior returned to the camp with an amulet. But all the warriors had left for the day and would not return until nightfall.

The trading post appeared around the bend, and he ran inside. The proprieter asked him "Back again Long Arrow .. did you forget something?"

"I've lost my spirit amulet .. has anyone turned it in?"

"Sorry, we don't have it"

Suddenly Long Arrow felt something brush against his thigh. His amulet! It was caught on a thread from his jersey. Feeling a little foolish he stuffed it into his pocket and prepared for the trip home, but much more lighthearted. The trip would be easy knowing that he would be able to enter the camp at the end.

(although I felt pretty dumb then)

I love Holloween

This is for my friend Mark Landsberg :)



Mark -- you don't like me calling it "Holloween"?

the day for phantoms, goblins and creatures unseen?

You say that "hallow" not "hollow" is the appropriate name

I think "hollow's an appropriate term just the same

Cause there's lots of "hollow about the october's end

Pumpkins, chocolate witches, and stomach's on the mend,

So if you feel that "holloween" is difficult to swallow,

Like an overly sweet chocoate coated marshmallow,

Wash it down with a grin and a spicy apple cider,

glass of brandy, or rum, whichever you decide, sir.

I could use a wish right now

I love Hayley Wiliams voice ... and I was listening to "Airplanes" but thinking that he doesn't really need a wish that badly :) So I wrote this.

You don't need a wish cause your rap game is slow
You need a wish when you've got no where to go
No place to turn to and the heat's on you
You've lost your friends and your love for true

You're complaining now cause your life is too soft
You're forgetting what you were, what you've lost and the cost
You haven't lost anything but the suffering and pain
Why you want to remember living on the street in the rain?

If you remember that, you'll remember you don't need a wish
You live in a mansion, beautiful wife who's a dish
You don't want to go back to the life that you left
Or remembering the taste of fear as you fled

So you've lost the music came from the pain and the fears
Now your words have no feel don't leave anyone in tears
But don't reminisce about the good days gone past
If they were so good then why'd you flee so fast

Let the airplanes fly on high fly right on by
Leave the wishes for others whose life is a cry
For help no one answers or cares anyhow
But they really could use a wish now, wish right now

Who you are

i know who you are,
you're my superstar
you can become anything
become anyone
you've got that chameleon groove going
you're my perfect girl
put my head in a whirl
i fulfil your needs
continue to succeed
but we both know the truth
the truth is a lie
words we live by
but the lie becomes the truth
and the truth becomes moot
you fake it for me
perfect girl that you be
and i know it
you bestow it
with deception and faking it
you know you're not taking it
that i'm drawing you in
with a simulation of sin
but the more you fake it
the more you become it
and you know it
and i'm hoping
that you're hoping
that you'll become it for real
we're both going by feel
i want to see you this weekend
you want me to come in
do the things unbelievable
things inconceivable
we'll continue to try
til one of you dies

The Life you Chose

Larry don't leave me, please don't go, don't leave ever
I remember you saying that, holding you promising never
but though you had your chance, you never would change
never understood that, always thought it so strange
you wouldn't do anything, is this the life you wanted?
guess you got what what was coming though your words still haunted
Larry don't leave me, please don't go, don't leave ever
i remember you saying that, holding you promising never.

Heartless (Taylor I can't take no mo) .. VMA 2010

Taylor A. Swift wrote a beautiful song "Innocence" for the VMA ... taking the high road. I heard, though that Kanye and a response ready in case it wasn't the classy song it was ...

Heartless (for Taylor version)

In the night i hear 'em talk, the coldest story ever told
Somewhere far along this road he lost his soul
To a woman so heartless
How could you be so heartless?
How could be so heartless?

How could you sing that song
Talkin all about how i did you wrong
Just try and treat me please with a little class
Don't like it when Barack calls me a jackass

I mean after all the shows that we've been through
All the awards and recogition that we got into
Hey yo, you wrote a song to scold me
Hey yo, I did some things but that's the old me

And now you wanna get me back and you gonna show me
So you make up this song singing po me
You got everyone as a friend, nobody know me
Now I'm feeling low just so lonely

[chorus]

How could you be so Dr. Evil?
You bringing out a side of me that I don't know
Why make the audience hate me so
I hear boos and more from every row

Why does she be so mad at me for?
I like Beyonce that was a mistake
It was a live show, couldn't do a retake
I didn't know my life was at stake

You go and sing a song that's dissin me
Now there aint no girls around that are kissin me
Couldn't you wait a month until I release my new CD
So I could get a few plays on the MTV

[chorus]

Talkin' talkin' talkin' talk
Baby please please knock it off
You don't know what I've been through
You don't know what my agent made me do

So please just let it be
Don't keep on hatin me
Leave me in my misery

I know you can't believe
I could just let it be
An you can't make it worse
I been trashed by this curse
I'm gonna try and sing tonight
I'm so tired of this fight

[chorus]

Heart of Mine

I tried to call she said that you're out,
wanted to hear your voice and see what you're about,
what you're about,
I met you somewhere downtown last week,
Stopped for ice cream, danced in the street,
danced in the street,

[chorus]
Can Isee you this weekend,
cause you're the girl, on whom I depend
to make me smile, to make things alright
to be beside me through the long night

If you agree, to meet me there,
wherever you want, anywhere,
I'll be there always, anytime,
go anywhere to be with this heart of mine ,
You're in this heart of mine,
You're in this heart of mine,

Said it was the first time you've hear a crowd roar,
Dancing as if you've sprung wings to soar
I want to show you that there's so much more,
There's so much more,
so much more,

I want to see you so lets get together,
I'm asking you for now, not to be forever,
Just a moment that we can remember,
that we can remember

[chorus]
Can i see you, again this weekend,
cause you're the girl, on whom I depend,
to make me smile, to make things alright,
to be beside me through the long night,
If you agree, to meet me there,
wherever you want, anywhere,
I'll be there always, anytime,
go anywhere to be with this heart of mine,
You're in this heart of mine,
You're in this heart of mine.

I love to see you with your hair down,
and walk together through the town,
I have the hat you left to me,
Does that mean you want to see me,
Am I your love or just a good friend,
I don't care, let's just meet again,
Whether it's fake, or if it's real,
It's wonderful the way you make me feel.

[chorus]
Can i see you this weekend,
cause you're the girl, on whom I depend,
To make me smile, to make things alright,
to be beside me through the long night,
If you agree, to meet me there,
wherever you want, anywhere ,
I'll be there always, anytime,
go anywhere to be with this heart of mine,
You're in this heart of mine,
You're in this heart of mine.