NO TIME

My head’s in a shambles
My mood broken and blue
There’s nothing else that I’d rather do
Just sit here and let the tears flow like the Rhine
I wanna cry now, but I don’t got the time

The music won’t soothe me
I’m covered in funk
Would somebody play some Thelodius Monk
‘Cos today’s not the day I can do it I find
I wanna cry now, but I don’t got the time

So tomorrow I’ll pick a nice spot to sit down
I’ll make sure there’s nothing to do across town
There’s a tree I can sit under and
There I will pine
But today’s not the day I can do it I find
I wanna cry now, but I don’t got the time

My friends are all calling, they find me at fault
The frig is still empty, there’s no table salt
A loud moaning session would be so divine
But today’s not the day I can do it I find
I wanna cry now, but I don’t got the time

My soul is in ruin I want to deny
All the foolish desires I had for a time
An evening with tissues is a moment sublime
But today’s not the day I can do it I find
I wanna cry now, but I don’t got the time

So perhaps I won’t find the release that I seek
Cos there’s no place right now for me to go weak
Absolutely no time, positively no way
I’m tied up with stuff for the rest of the day
And my soul has more miles to go before I decline
So today’s not the day I can do it I find
I wanna cry now, but I don’t got the time

So I’ll mark on my date book the day that I spend
Ripping up all the bed sheets, the towels I will rend
And my feelings on hold will soon wither and bend
The bad times will soon come to a smashing dead end
For my head clears each day I’m with you I find
So I won’t cry right now, I just ain’t got the time

Eileen Loveman: From “Rhythms & Rhymes of the Heart 2002-2004″ published 2005