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TO JESUS FROM ME
My eyes are dark and my heart is bleak,
It's been so
hard to get much sleep
While all the weight lays on my feet.
As I pray
when I'm alone,
I somehow feel I have no home.
My heart does grow, as
I pray
The height I feel is on its way
I've asked you once I've asked you
twice
Why is this world not so nice.
As I grow with each day
I know
you'll send me back on my way.
I don't know why but this gift
indeed
Is something I have for all the people who need
But why a gift if I
don't know how to wrap it for a soul.
So no matter how low I go
Why do
you energize my soul?
As I know as my love will be
He needs to be free
of me
It's time to grow and let go
I don't know
Our souls are
one
Our hearts are torn
We can't seem to bear these thorns.
Where
will we end?
Who will we be?
I haven't the strength to do what we
need.
You send me a friend with the face of a God
He lifts up my
heart
And is under a lock.
His way is clear for me to see
The value
is life as it should be.
The strength I gave within his soul
Gave him
the courage to be in control.
As he walks down his path and be all he
will
He needn't look back
As this is God's will.
His heart will
grow
His strength within
Will take us both to something within.
So
where will this end?
Who will I be?
Where is my courage to do what I
need?
Over the years, I did what I could
I don't want to smother
anything good.
One day at a time, without a dime,
Will take me back
again in time.
Free my love's soul,
As I will stay.
It is in fact
the only way.
The pain I feel
The loss I have
Can only help me bear
my cross.
Patti Smith
September 5, 1998 |
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THIEF OF ONE
SELF
SOIL OF THE SOUL
FALLEN
TIMES
ANOTHER GIVEN
REASON
TEARS OF THE CHILD WITHIN
PROTECT OUR OWN
EMPTY LIVING
TODAY'S TOMORROWS
WHO
IS BABY BLUE
BABY BLUE'S
TRUE FACTS
BABY BLUE COMING BACK TO YOU
MISSION
DEMON SNAKE PIT
BEDTIME
PRAYERS
THE GIFT OF ROCK
UNFORGIVING
ACTS
SOCIETY SAYS
FAKE TAKE
SOUL PURPOSE
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THIEF OF ONE
SELF
The word of thief you used of me
You took all my hope and
charity
Along with all of my energies
I GAVE you it
all
Forgetting my own call
Continuing to fall
Till one day I
opened my ears
And I heard this call
The words of hope wisdom and
piece
And all the things
I believed I could once be
So today I will
be all that I need for me
No longer looking back to see
The drops of
blood
From within my heart that once made me bleed
Patti
Smith
April 19
1999 |
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SOIL OF THE SOUL
Soiled of dirt washed upon your hands
With the sins within
of your own commands
A soul of not torn
Only the generous giving upon of
thorns
Not a thorn of rose of flowering bud
But the tears
Unto the
dirt
Turing lives now into the mud
Their is no turing around
Till
your face down upon the ground
Upon the grounds
Are where you are to be
found
Begin to seed within again
Let the tears fall
To nourish
and wash
The soul you lay upon
Not as the soil of earth
But as
soil of soul
BEGIN
Before you go
All the way going down
Passing
by all of the souls
With their tears
For the life's you took with gained
control
Patti Smith April 19-
1999
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FALLEN
TIMES
A truth lying among us
With fallen angels above
us
Seeking
Not our truth of what we once new
Nor our guidance
From
our days we passed through
Let not our souls
Ever grow cold with
old
To the guidance
Needed for the young and lost souls
But to the guidance
OF continued piece and control
The
richest of time
In
which you've received
Your testing
Of giving to the weak and diseased
With the
judgment of price
You'll pay back faced unto
Thee
Patti Smith
April 18 1999 |
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ANOTHER GIVEN
REASON
Oh little angel
Way up high
I think you were born
In me
this time
To bring these words through
Baby blue
And in this
book
You can see who
Truly is baby blue
An old soul
To let us
know
All the things
Being foretold
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TEARS OF THE CHILD WITHIN
As a little child within
our souls,
We blame ourselves for what is not in our control
Where
does it begin
Where does it end
Why do we have to bend
And where
does the guilt fit in.
A precious mind so young and pure
Shouldn't
have to do this here.
If you look into my eyes you might say,
Who's to
know
And who's to say
But why would you ever behave this
way?
The minds you scarred
The hearts you broke
Took away all our
hope.
So who's to blame?
And why can't you see what this is doing
to me.
Now I have to start my life with a sacrifice.
Our child within
is in our hearts
We can't seem to ever part.
The memories it holds is
somewhere within
I can't even start to begin.
The need in me,
Is to be
Free of Elasticity.
It is not too late for you and me
We can see the
harmony
It's the child who waits without hesitate.
Looking up to you for
love
Learning how to fly like a dove.
So protect your own
As you
have grown
And never leave them all alone.
So after all the years of
many tears,
Allow yourself to heal
From within your will.
Patti
Smith
September 9, 1998 |
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PROTECT OUR OWN
Where are the children going to be
When
the parent's can't give
Of their own needs
Who will decide who's
right or wrong
Who will tell them
It's way past dawn
Never to get
their feet
On the ground
Never learning the
True laughter of
sound
Sometimes never ever to be found
Drifting through their life
within in a song
Only to never try to get along
We could do right
If we stand together and fight
For the rights of the children
Who are
out alone in the night
Having to fight for all their
Own
rights
Patti Smith
October 5, 19
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EMPTY LIVING
A
house a home
Everyone's talking on the phone
No one cares who lives next
door
Only worrying about themselves
Being poor
Who's looking out
for the children
In the house next door
Doing way too many chores
Being
knocked down to the floor
Or their clothes being dirty or torn
When
you cut your grass
Are you always wondering
How long this will
last
Why don't you enjoy the memories
Of still having a past
Happy to
be alive at last
You sit on your porch
You point you stare
Seeing
anything that you care
To spread of the word
To all who will hear
As
they listen this makes you
Feel as a popular person
Why is
this
How can this be
Why can't we really believe that
The true need is
to be free
Of our hostility
So we can give in to our
Spirituality
So
we can now give of our
Hospitality
Patti Smith
October 21,
1998 |
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TODAY'S TOMORROWS
Pretty
baby
You were born in me
I wish you could see
The miracle this
brings
Pretty eyes
Pretty hair
Everything I compare
Myself to
you
You're like the sun
That brings the light to life
As God's
living sacrifice
Here on earth to make things right
So we should
remember our own
Through life as we have grown
To be more for all
The
little people who fall
And who bring to us
Our future of hope
Of
what this world can be
If we now supply
All of their needs
Patti
Smith
November 1, 1998
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WHO
IS BABY BLUE
It's pretty baby blue
Here to tell you who
Flew way up
high
With these wings
It's me
So I can fly
I'm a baby
angel
All the way
I whisper all I have to say
Wondering how you'll play
out each day
Hoping you'll find all your good ways
I might look
young
But my soul is old
And I am here
To let you know
As I have
told
To all you souls
To go slow
So you can learn to know
How to
grow
While you unfold with many goals
Of learning the things
As you
were foretold
Patti Smith
November 2, 1998 |
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BABY BLUE'S
TRUE FACTS
Oh baby blue
I need you
So you can tell me true
What
to do
I don't know who
Is more of the fool
Or which one of us
Is
trying to fool you
So you say
Let us see
There seems to be no generosity
Only true facts
Of what we both lack
In our true task
Of
accomplishments
And if we both don't change
Our ways from the
past
We then will be left with nothing
To have a lasting past
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BABY BLUE COMING BACK TO YOU
Another
baby blue
You better get used to who
Tells you true
In all you
do
And believe
You can see your ways
Each and every day
Of your
coming days
So believe in you
In all you do
As you see your way
every day
Don't forget
To help others along their way
So I hope
today
Brings for you
All the rewards
For what you did do
And all
this while
I bet you knew
You wouldn't be the one
Who was the
fool
Patti Smith
November 5, 1998
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MISSION
Baby
baby blue
I love your wings of blue
Matching your eyes of blue
Your
perfect lips so perfectly fit
Your image sits
So well lit
Appearing
as the candle sits
Flickering from the wick
The night is calm
I
truly feel I belong
In the palm of your hand
As I listen to these
beautiful songs
Feeling relaxed and calm
And now ready to go
along
To the places I now feel I belong
The place for me for many
needs
As I take the roads
That are laid out for me
That I can be
all I need
For the people
Out there expecting me
Patti
Smith
November 8, 1998
CONFUSION OF PURPOSE
To write is to
fight
As my time now I feel belongs
To some light of a higher height
Of
the unknown to my soul
For all the things to be told
As were
foretold
But what is to be my goal
None understanding why I've been
told
No longer aware of the cold
As I now struggle within my
soul
Wondering why I'm at this height of my soul
Trying to go slow as
told
Wondering why as I try
Wondering how much longer till I
die
Surely not before I supply these words
Without fear as many have said
to hear
Beautiful are they
To all who believe
As they've touched my
soul
Reinforcing my goals
Only for me is this light I now see
Now
looking back I now believe
I'm now on my way to achieve
Bringing these
messages for all who believe
Patti Smith December 31,
1998
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DEMON SNAKE PIT
This snake I assure
Is not like my
friends
Jake the Snake
This one is fake
Quick to bite out your
life
Sharp as a knife
Just a flick of a quick light
Letting you
believe
Your life will be right
A serpent is he
Satan to all who
believe
Think where you'll be
If you're a part of he
You'll end up
in heat
Suffering from great need
So listen and believe
In God the
Almighty
Patti Smith
November 13, 1998 |
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BEDTIME
PRAYERS
Something short
And something sweet
Give me something
To
put me right to sleep
So I don't weep
For all the souls
Who need
more than company
As I don't see
And maybe don't really
believe
Since I have everything
Right there in front of me
With little
needs
While my life is not in any jeopardy
Who would believe
I
didn't think of these
Not even when I'm on my knees
To thank thee
For
all I have for me
In which I only see
Oh shame on me O Lord
As I
feel as I weep
And thank you for helping me see
Maybe I'll be more for
thee
Patti Smith
November 16, 1998
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