Saturday, November 07, 2015

"Shoot Me"



Shoot Me

© Brian Hutzell 1985

Bang!
The sound
The final report
                                    "Cut me"
Why oh, why oh, why oh
                                    "Ask yourself, ask your mother"
Maybe it's you          
                                    "You decide what you did
                                    I wasn't there."
I don't know
                                    "Walk it through one more time, please"
Watching me
Waiting for a mistake
                                    "Step one, two three four"
Up here it doesn't look so easy
                                    "I think you know you made it and who didn't.
                                    Will those who didn't please leave the stage.
                                    Everyone else, from the top!"
Shoot me
Bury me
Go ahead
You'll be doing me a favor

Shoot me
Do something
To make it easy to leave you
I don't want to, but I've got to
And I won't unless I find a reason

Love you?
Of course I do
Leave you?
How can I?
My career is on the line
I gotta make up my mind
Your goals are incompatible with mine

Shoot me
Do something
To make it easy to leave you
I don't want to, but I've got to
And I won't unless I find a reason

Want you to come with me
Will you?
No, I see
You would like a family
To me that's insanity
You want the thing I can't tolerate

Shoot me
Do something
To make it easy to leave you
I don't want to, but I've got to
And I won't unless I find a reason

Bang!
The sound
Last time it wasn't for real
This time
                                    "Cut"
This time it was
                                    "Make it live. Make it real"
No one's gonna die
Not for awhile
No one got hurt yet
That comes next
Then life moves into those gray areas
Where pain doesn't exist
As doesn't happiness
                                    "Okay, take five!"
Decision's coming
                                    "Listen, we've got some results.
                                    Some of you will be disappointed.
                                    That's a shame, but it's the way it it."
What if I didn't get in?
What then?
                                    "You've all been through this before."
To make or break
                                    "...and you and you and you
                                    and you and you and you!"


“Sing!”

Brian Hutzell
from Square Feet
     

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