maybe it dint happen
just the way that i said…
does that mean you have to treat me
like i don’t exist?
like i’m dead?
maybe i wasn’t everything
you hoped i would be at the start…
but does that mean you have to believe
that I have no tears
and have no heart?
baby, i have always loved you
and i never lied, i swear…
the truth is, all i want in the world
is to see you still standing there.
maybe i went wrong again
maybe i’ll never know how to be…
maybe you’ll walk away and never know or care
that you mean everything
to me.
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for Marian’s music prompt (Tom Waits) at Real Toads.
“Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis” was written by Tom. Sung here by Maria Tecce.
Coal Black's House Of Pain 
Yeah CB, you and Tom are channeling the same blues here. Maybe love is just that lonely feeling that you’ve struck out once again. Schwiiiing and a miss … (I know, I know, but I couldn’t resist the hetero howler.) – B
love the rhymes and i wanna hear you sing this.
coal black knows how to sing the pain.
Oh, I wish I’d written this. I know the feeling so well.
“maybe i wasn’t everything
you hoped i would be at the start…
but does that mean you have to believe
that I have no tears
and have no heart?”
Little Anthony and the Imperials couldn’t sing it any sweeter or sadder…tell it, tell it, coal.
Coal Black knows pain like nobody else, and she can sure WRITE it!!!!!!
This is good. Damn good.
beautiful song… i like it ~
Beautiful. I think you have captured here the sadness that many women have felt / feel in their hearts.
Maybe I didn’t love you…
Thinking you and Willie should do a mash-up.
Sweet, Coal. Damn sweet.
a lyric. a perfect fit for this prompt. and who better to sing it?
this is the line –
“the truth is, all i want in the world
is to see you still standing there.”
can’t wait for the tour – waits and coal black live at the whiskey!
nobody writes the blues like you! ♥