Hey Brother

Dedicated to Paddy McAloon

I’ve been thinking about

Getting in touch with you

‘cause some things you write

Are similar to those I do,

In some ways of looking

For Atlantis in life

Some quests that haunt me

Seem a part of your strife,

And that is why your music

Makes all the sense to me

You write the music and words

That make a part of what I see,

Music comes through you

And reflects just how clear

Your musical telescope

Brings your caption here,

Way back in the eighties

I read an interview

In which you claimed to be

The best songwriter you knew...

At the time I found it untrue

And proceeded with conceit

But nowadays I remember that

And I am sorry, I admit,

I listen to “I Trawl The Megahertz”

As it could be done by me

I put the music playing

And I rhyme accordingly,

I’ve been a poet all my life

But only later I realised

That poetry flowed from me

Unexpectadly concise,

And at this very moment

As I write these humble lines

If the devil came acalling

I’m sure I would decline,

And looking back the years

That are gone, I don´t know how

I wonder why it’s so easy for you

To bring me to tears right now…

29-8-2019 – 15.45