Wig Nelson songs
The Writer
By Wig Nelson c.2009 BMI
(First Verse)
It wasn't real china - the teacakes were just make believe
Was just turning six - a number of tricks up my sleeve
It was back when the ghost had a bucket of blood in his veins
Now the echo of life is all of the best that remains
(Chorus)
And now an old typewriter lies . . . on a rickety desk by the door
The windows that spilled forth a life . . . don't whisper the tales anymore
(Second Verse)
She was a dream that I missed as I slept through the night
Sorting through darkness and courting impostors of light
Stretching a gossamer hope of a tangible touch
Knowing that I never learn not to promise too much
(Bridge)
Something is wrong with the writer
A song so long overdue
A turncoat who once was a fighter
And always dead right about you
(Third Verse)
Lashed to the wheelhouse the rope cutting into his wrists
He wished that the storm were a man he could meet with his fists
The water was rising and through the black night it was raining
Just a matter of time by the cries from below it was gaining
(Chorus)
And now the memories lay far too low in the dust on a yellowing page
And the flies on the wall always know they can die of a ripened old age
(Fourth Verse)
The glass giants tumbled and gas lines were jumbled and burning
No one was certain the land was still earthen and turning
It was too late for words as the circling birds were above us
With it all said and done there was only The One left to love us
(Chorus)
And now the memories lay far too low in the dust on the yellowing page
And the flies on the wall always know they can die of a ripened old age
And now old typewriter lies on a rickety desk by the door
The windows that spilled forth a life - they don't whisper the tales anymore
And the memories lay far too low in the dust on a yellowing page
By Wig Nelson c.2009 BMI
(First Verse)
It wasn't real china - the teacakes were just make believe
Was just turning six - a number of tricks up my sleeve
It was back when the ghost had a bucket of blood in his veins
Now the echo of life is all of the best that remains
(Chorus)
And now an old typewriter lies . . . on a rickety desk by the door
The windows that spilled forth a life . . . don't whisper the tales anymore
(Second Verse)
She was a dream that I missed as I slept through the night
Sorting through darkness and courting impostors of light
Stretching a gossamer hope of a tangible touch
Knowing that I never learn not to promise too much
(Bridge)
Something is wrong with the writer
A song so long overdue
A turncoat who once was a fighter
And always dead right about you
(Third Verse)
Lashed to the wheelhouse the rope cutting into his wrists
He wished that the storm were a man he could meet with his fists
The water was rising and through the black night it was raining
Just a matter of time by the cries from below it was gaining
(Chorus)
And now the memories lay far too low in the dust on a yellowing page
And the flies on the wall always know they can die of a ripened old age
(Fourth Verse)
The glass giants tumbled and gas lines were jumbled and burning
No one was certain the land was still earthen and turning
It was too late for words as the circling birds were above us
With it all said and done there was only The One left to love us
(Chorus)
And now the memories lay far too low in the dust on the yellowing page
And the flies on the wall always know they can die of a ripened old age
And now old typewriter lies on a rickety desk by the door
The windows that spilled forth a life - they don't whisper the tales anymore
And the memories lay far too low in the dust on a yellowing page
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