Alma Claude is learning the guitar and now has taken up the piano.  I've agreed with him that we would collaborate on writing songs.  I'm so proud of him.  He has an aptitude for music, and I'm writing lyrics!  Below is a song I wrote.  He'll help with the music.  It'll be fun to see how things progress.

I dreamed.  I dreamed I had a ticket on a plane.

Tryin' to get to you.  Panic leaves me insane.

This yearin' eats me inside, away.

Thought I was past dreamin' of you night and day.

My dreamin' recounts the ache in my bones.

The words between us hang like stones.

The silence unbroken still calls your name.

And tears I'm dreamin' find me the same.

My decision that day binds me tight in this place.

Can't exorcise your ghost.  You're hauntin' my space.

I dreamed.  I dreamed I had a ticket on a plane.

Tryin' to get to you.  Panic leaves me insane.

This yearin' eats me inside, away.

Thought I was past dreamin' of you night and day.

I wake to a morning, pale and grey.

I lay here cryin' with nothin' to say.

The day stretches before me, same old drone.

I roll over and sigh.  My hand finds me alone.

Too fresh this feeling, still lovin' you.

Like no time has passed in our world of two.

I dreamed.  I dreamed I had a ticket on a plane.

Tryin', tryin' to reach you.  Panic leaves me insane.

This yearin' eats me inside, away.

Thought I was past dreamin'.  It's too hard to say.

Dreamin', dreamin',  Mmmmm  Love you still.

Dreamin', dreamin', it's a damn tough pill.

Dreamin', dreamin, Mmmm Love you still

Mmmmm, dreamin', our love, our will.

e.c.  2009