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Douglas L. Simmons
Copyright © 2005 by Douglas L. Simmons
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If I Could Reach You
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I Never Said
In Love Again
In The Dark
I Know You Do
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If I Could Reach You
If I could reach you,
try to teach you,
I wouldn't preach to you
never, never do no wrong.
No, no, no this isn't one of those songs.
When I was lonely.
When I was only
one more lesson
for some poor child to learn.
I was new then.
I was you then,
always possessin'.
Much too wild to turn.
If I could reach you,
try to teach you,
I wouldn't preach to you
never, never do no wrong.
No, no, no this isn't one of those songs.
I know a man.
Know he can
be the way
the good books say
a man to be.
You are a young girl
don't know a young world
won't let a young girl be free.
If you should leave me
baby believe me
I would chase you down.
Just to say good-bye.
Doug L.
May 31, 1974
Mainz, Germany
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Everything is touched
just a little too much.
There is nothing left,
there isn't any gift
I can bring
hasn't been under the rain.
Yes, in the sun
I was the only one,
then I could go by.
Oh but any bird can sing the sky,
I was just another good-bye child,
and I haven't grown up, only turned wild.
Yea keep on all a-you good-bye children,
go on you have a good cry and then
ride off with your midnight cluster,
that's the closest to love a-you might muster
now that you're in the rages
and going through the stages.
We wanted to change the world,
thought we were the heralds
of the birth of love
out on the earth above.
Now you don't even know it,
and if you did you couldn't grow it.
I can't hold back.
I'm on the rack,
the pain is hurting now but I can't touch it,
it's hurting me so much it
leads me to the ground.
Takes my laughter down.
Doug L.
11 Feb. '74
Mainz, Germany
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I Never Said
That all the things
I've never said;
By you, unheard,
May now be read.
That all the tears
I've never shed
Be tears not cried
by you instead.
That all the tears
You've cried for me
Release your heart
And set it free.
From all the things
I've never said.
That never got
Inside your head.
Doug L.
Merrillville, IN
July 29, 2002
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In Love Again
You didn't even wake me up,
you're gone.
You do it just to break me up
I know.
In love again
but you never do last long.
Sometimes I wish
you'd stay gone when you go.
Some old silly
love affair again.
Some more lonely nights
while I pretend...
...I don't know what you do,
or where you've been.
Some old sorted
love affair again.
Sometimes
I wish you'd
stay gone
when you go....
Doug L.
August 1981
Hammond, Indiana
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In The Dark
Through the windows of my eyes,
from the chambers of my heart,
I can sometimes visualize
tiny truths out in the dark.
Doug L.
May 1, 1994 1:54 P.M.
East Chicago, Indiana
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I Know You Do
I don't know
if you know it,
but I know. It's true.
Ooo baby.
Many thousand leagues I've wandered.
A universe of dreams I've pondered.
All my living means I've squandered...
...looking back to you.
I don't know if you believe it,
but I know that you can't leave it....
Yea.
You know I do.
This is only one time baby
that I've passed up-on the line.
Maybe I'll get fine
Maybe I'll get you.
I thought you were a one time lady.
I didn't know you could enslave me.
Thought you couldn't do that to-me...
...but you know you do.
Doug L.
December 3, 1973 - March 10, 2005
Baumholder, Germany
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