"Summer" -- Kathy Zimmer, from the album Spare Key

SUMMER

This citys full of carnies and sharks
Brandishers of water guns, and little dogs with great big barks
Take to the street, you walk up and you walk down
Doling out dough to the homeless
And souls to the soulless
On tiptoe above the undertow
Pray that you dont drown

You nod politely to all you meet
While you both follow the well-trod ruts of a million feet
That before you have carved up every floor
Till finally youve got nothing left
But some worn-out sandals on the back of the shelf
And an empty water gun
With which to wage your war, your dynamic war

Let me be your everything
(everything here Ive got)
anything worth the giving
(and whatevers left thats not)

a big man once told me I had to pay my dues
stretch myself as thin as paper, like the kind they use for the news
he smoked a cigar and drank expensive wine
and I noticed on the day he died
he had less love in his life than I have in mine
so sir, I think Im doing fine

Ive got some magic beans to grow a building up to King Kong
Hes the one in love with that girl, the drop-dead gorgeous blonde
Got to get up to someplace where I can dangle my feet
And get some perspective on those millions of lives
That stop and go and clog up the street
Cause someday we might meet

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[BianxNYC]

Ah...our lovely city shining so bright. Lovely animations...makes me think of Jonathan Livingston Seagull...I am very emotional right now = Job well done!

[foxyfonzie]

Sweet! I'm the first one to comment! Way to go KZ!