Teen Angst Revisited

[youngcat]

This is not a bit in any way shape or form. Earlier this week, while going through some things that were stored away in a box I came a cross some notebooks, and journals.

I realized that these books were filled with poetry and songs that I wrote from high school, through college and into early adult hood.

The great thing is they are all dated, so I can tell when I wrote them, who I was talking about etc...

I would like to share them with my friends.

Since I have no friends, though, I will share them with all of you.

Most of them started as song lyrics, unfortunately, I have no music for them.

I do however remember how most of them go, so if you really need to know how they sound, corner me at McManus sometime, and I'll belt out a verse.

 

[youngcat]

ENCASED IN A MEMORY: 1/2/90

(Written in 1990, during my senior year in high school, Driving back from Sanibel Island with My Friend Carlos Charles in his Camaro, with the T-TOPS OFF! We had just come from the big rign in the nineties New Years Eve party at Robert Galloways house. Both Patti Huether (his ex) and Katie Porter (my ex) were there, and we ended up kissing each of them on New Years, and then it got really wierd the next day. I distinctly remember Katie calling me "a turd".)

Driving home on a lonely Sunday Morning
Your Stoic face still fresh inside my head.
Sitting with a buddy listening to Tom Petty on the radio,
Between us both not a single word was said.

We were both thinking similar thoughts,
that past love could overcome the way we fought
How lately your actions had been very strange
yet we refused to believe you'd both changed.

We started remeniscing bout times in the past
Back then it all seemed to move so fast
Who'd have thought then it would never be the same again.

It was always
Him and her
You and me
Now that's encased in a memory
The past is gone, we all need to carry on.

I got home and tried to catch up on sleep lost the night before
yet in my dreams I kept seeing that look
on your face when I walked out the door

It's hard to believe sombody can change
SO much in so short a time
The way you look at me now as compared to then
It's as if I commited some horrible crime

*Well if that's the case than lock me up and throw away the key
Cause if loving you, with all my heart is against the law...
Then I'm guilty.

It's over now for you and me
My crimes are encased in a memory
Our love is gone
We both need to carry on.

So we live our lives pretending what we shered was never there
I see you and look away make as if I just don't care
Yet inside I know what's true
There was a time when you loved me, and I loved you

That's over, I know our lives they must move on
But I still cry myself to sleep at night when I think
The love we shared
Is forever gone.

I still hope
Someday
We can see
If love lasts encased in a memory
For now it's gone
We both need to carry on.

*I remember being especially proud of this line when I wrote it, I thought it had a very REO SPEEDWAGON feel to it.

More tomorrow.

 

[youngcat]

DIRECTIONS

Page four of my journal

HANCOCK
L on Del Prado
Hospital on R
1st Stop light
Viscala
Circle K (L)
IMMEDIATE first (L)
SE 16th
2nd street on (R)
1719 SE 8th Street

Directions to Jennifer Moffit's house. I wrote those down 4 hours before I lost my virginity.

Awesome!