"Pieces"

I have lyric ideas scattered across numerous notebooks, journals, pads of paper, and running amok in my head. From time to time, I gather up a few of the fragments and pile them all together, just to see what emerges. The first time I tried this, the result was “Pieces.” Since then, there have been several “Pieces” sequels, as well as the Cut Pieces collection, and other experimental works, all following up on this original “Pieces” piece.

Current listening: Return to Forever, No Mystery

Pieces

© 1985 Brian Hutzell

Pieces

I live in pieces

Part of me

Three o’clock in the night

Breakdown after twilight

I need my medicine

Passing over bridges

He walks down 8th Street every day

She works

Hey!

Part

Hey!

Have you heard his latest song?

They’ve been playing it all night long

I can’t sing it for you but I liked the tune

It meant nothing to me but I liked the beat

Love

Yes, I have a friend

When I travel I get bored

Driving in my ugly car

So I stop beside the road

And put some bugs in a jar

I put the jar beside me in the co-pilot’s seat

Pieces

My girlfriend ran away

With a man from the CIA

She used my VISA to charge the plane

And there’s no way I can pay

I have a very special skill

Artistic drive enough to kill

Originality in hand

I am the only living man

Bending paper clips as a craft

Pieces

”Bend!” he hissed savagely

Bend!

Aborted princes

Seafood in Japan

Bend!

Muffled aardvarks

Singing in the rain

Des Moines in my groin

Pieces

I live in pieces

Part of me

Love!

Part of me

Hey!

Part of me

Bend!

Part of me

Pieces

Part of me is partially responsible

For parts of me that I can’t understand

“FP1 – Chroma”

Brian Hutzell

From Fase Phour

Part 4 of MMXIII Variations