YOUNG

BY ALA RIANI 2001

MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM

Far from the ground

Yet I’m not flying

It’s something in between

Summer and a summers evening

I’m wearing a shirt

And a pair of broken dreams

Yes I’m just a person

Looking for my jeans

Waiting by the railroad

To find me there

To the place where

It’s something in between

A real summer and

A midsummer night’s dream

Where I’ll know

As the train stops

I’ll find my sweet blue jeans

Who’ll help me

Mend my broken dreams

BEATEN

I know it looks

I beat the storm everyday

I know it seems

I face danger and not look away

It is the coldness in the eyes

And the bitterness in the lips

That gives it away

And in time

It will be my hunched back

And my lowered head

That gives it away

I’m a beaten man

I’m a beaten man

IF I FALL

After a while of hesitation

I made up my mind

I was going to let you know

And nobody could stop me

As far as I would go

I started climbing your neck

Feeling your voice down your throat

Thinking it was from there

All your pain flowed

I reached for your chin

But was tickled by your beard

I looked up at you and screamed

Catch me if I fall

Will you catch me if I fall

Well were was I

If not at your mouth

Was this the red carpet

Unrolled for me

I fell on my knees

To give you a kiss

Was about to fall

When you moved your lips

Just to say the words I missed

I looked up terrified and screamed

Catch me if I fall!

I grabbed your nose

And climbed it up

It hurt inside to hear you breath

I looked up at you and screamed

Catch me if I fall

Will you catch me if I fall

I continued on your cheek

Gazed and saw your eyes

I might as well have died

They looked so sad

I would have tried

To say something more

But you started to cry

And fell a tear

Close to get washed away

I slipped

Looked up at you and cried

Catch me if I fall

Will you catch me if I fall

Dripping wet from your tear

I struggled towards your ear

Scared that you would not hear

I grabbed your earlobe

But when you moved I lost hope

I neared you just to say

What I was there to say

Please will you catch me if I fall

MY HEART TO THE MOON  

My heart not only broke in two

You smashed it, Blew it to the moon

You powdered it and now I’m trying to gather it

But for every little peace I find

A tear is shed

And I have to throw it

Cause it is torn and wet

You look down on me from your window

Blow me a kiss

How can this hurt so

When we try our best to make it work

You keep pulling thorns of from my stalk

Don’t listen to the sound of my talk

What kind of tie have you spun around me

I don’t seem to break through your wall

How many times do I have to scream and call

My heart not only broke in two

You smashed it, Blew it to the moon

You powdered it and now I’m trying to gather it

But for every little peace I find

A tear is shed

And I have to throw it

Cause it is torn and wet

You look down on me from your window

You and I we fight and it’s just not fair

Cause you’re so much stronger than I

It’s like a battle a hurricane inside

LONELINESS

Affection

I want to be shown

A hand

Laid upon my face

I’d like to have known

Loneliness

The devil’s punishment

For us who won’t follow his path

Truth

That comes out

From the mouth of rats

Solitude can be escaped in dreams

Now

I am alone there too it seems

Caress

I want to be shown

Lips

Saving me

My mouth

Would like to have known

Loneliness

The people’s punishment

For us who won’t follow in their leash

We go to school

But the lesson of life no one can us teach

PRINCESS

Purple is what can be seen

In the eyes of the mean

Do you really want more

Even when you’re full

The higher you climb the duller

This life of yours grows

So so so

Princess low

Better take it real slow

No no no

Princess don’t                                                      

Better stop acting this show

Constantly surrounded by boys

Play with them like cards and toys

Don’t mind them looking under the skirt

As long as their fingers are free from dirt

The higher they climb

The duller this life of yours grows

If it had meant to be tonight

No difference would there be

Between black and white

Some shallow and mean

Walking over, both yellow and green

We do see them acting maliciously

They can be playing us theatrically

GO ON

You rose quickly on me as I fell

I lost my grip and just slipped

You were the rocks I tore my body on

You were the ocean to swallow me

You were the hole I drowned in

These hurtings

Would have begun healing

If it had not kept on

Yes it keeps going on, and on and on

These wounds of mine

I am shredded apart

How many times do I have to climb back

After you’ve pushed me

How many times do I have to show you I can survive

As you keep stabbing me

I can live through these humiliations

Barely, yes barely

It keeps going on, and on, and on

Yes it keeps going on, and on, and on

These bleedings of mine

I am shredded apart

How many times do I have to glue myself back on

After you’ve cut me

And how many times do I have to show you I can survive

As you keep strangling me

How many times, until I can’t make it

When this keeps go on, and on, and on

You keep rising as I fall

You keep yourself steady as I slip

It keeps going on and on and on

BUTTERFLY

I don’t know what’s wrong with me

Just when I think I know myself

Just when I think I know the feelings inside

They show me that I’m wrong

They show me that they’re never calm

How can I ever let people in

When I don't know what’s inside

The things that are mine,

The things that frightens me of

Imagine what they would do

To someone who is new

I think I better start screaming

I think I better start yelling

Every time I go by,

Hey here comes the butterfly!

I guess I have a responsibility

Towards the people, but it’s too bad

I wish I always could wear black

So that nobody could see me

 And the things I have inside

But why do I have to tell them

Why can’t they find out for themselves

I wish they could just like me the way that I am

I think I better start screaming

I think I better start yelling

Every time I go by,

Hey here comes the butterfly!

FOR YOU MY

For you my,

As the song starts to play

And remind me of its way

I know we have to do what it says

Our roads crosses to become one

We’ll walk down it a long time with pride

Side by side with happy smiles

Until the road breaks up in two

And we loudly cry for me and you

Don’t ever forget me, know I have lived

Remember me with joy

Don’t ever hate me, know I have breathed

For you my,

Don’t ever forget us, know we have existed

Remember us with pride

Someday you'll walk on my side

Strange lessons of life I’ve learned

What you give isn’t always what you get back

Two were strangers in the night

Talked, kissed and made a fire light

Strange lessons of life I’ve learned

The good ones were left to be preserved

For you my,

Can you feel me beside you in this lonely night

For you my,

I am giving you the insight of life

But as the song starts to play

And remind me of its way

I know we have to do what it says

Our roads crosses to become one

We’ll walk down it a long time with pride

Side by side with happy smiles

Until the road breaks up in two

And we loudly cry for me and you

TEDDYBEAR

My buttons are fallin’ off

This life story has been nothin’ but though

I was all fresh when I landed in her arms

Her loving and hugging

Really warmed me up

Every night she would lay me

Next to her heart

I’d lay there hearin’ it

Beating

I’d there hear her

Breathing

Oh, but that was a long time ago

Oh, that was a long time gone

Now she has lost me

Time has gone and she has got

A new teddy

She has tossed me away

I am feelin’ bleu

I am old and my buttons are fallin’ off

I remember I’d lay next to her heart

I’d lay there hearin’ it beatin’

I’d lay there hear her breathin’

THE CLOWN

The curtains go up

My breath and heart stops

The spotlight hits right

Hidden tomatoes behind their backs

Don’t know what this show of mine lacks

I’m just a clown that

Brings you laughter when I’m sad

Makes you calm when I’m mad

Makes you cry when I’m glad

I’m just a clown who

Knows the man on the moon

And can hear his lonely blue tune

Funny shoes and strange clothes

And one great big red nose

How easy it is to disguise

How easy it is to make fun of life

These tears I cry aren’t fake

But they make your life

Look like a piece of cake

I’ve played this act forever,

Through all towns

Now come and buy a ticket

To see the clown

The curtains go down

I’m just a poor old clown that

Wants to be out of sight         

THE SHIP

Shiver to the bones

Frightens so deep,

It is inside

Don’t breath, don’t talk

It’ll find you so don’t

Try to hide

Runs through your nose

Goes so deep

It is inside

The water is inside

The ship wants to hide away

In the sea

The ship wants to say

Goodbye with me

Hold on to the mast

This is going way to fast

Shivers you to the bones

Gets closer

Runs through your nose

Don’t breath, don’t talk

It’ll find you so

Don’t try to hide

Blue and strong

The wind is singing me

One of her lullabies

She is calming me down

As the ship dies

DARLING

Sun is what people like

Sun it makes people go outside

Candy is what children like

Candy they can’t have at night

                And

Darling that’s what I like

Darling always by my side

My darling shines like a star

He catches me anywhere I fall

Girls the whisper...kiss her

Boys they talk... what a luck