An Ode to BHS Graduating Seniors, 2014 . (on YouTube)
The buds are here the snow is gone
Your time has come for moving on
No more your home, these desks will mourn
'Til summers end when they're reborn.
New students come, the world goes round
I search to find the solid ground
There's new names written on my screen
But it's your faces I'm still seein'.
Chorus
New roads for you my part is done
Smell the flowers in the setting sun.
It's hard to feel that I'm at home
When I keep being left alone
I'm fitting round pegs into squares
Adjusting to these musical chairs
Home's not just where the rainbow ends
It's letting go of special friends
So take my heart, though you don't know,
It's yours in full as you let go
That when your future stars align,
I'll feel a part, like they were mine.
Chorus
New roads for you my part is done
Smell the flowers in the setting sun.
It's hard to feel that I'm at home
When I keep being left alone
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To My Seniors, 2011 Chords: DGFA
You walk in here with youth and grace
I got used to your smile
I didn’t want to fall in love
Because I knew you were here just awhile
I wouldn’t say you were teasing me
The love I felt was real
I know you’ll soon be out that door
As you’re breakin’ up this deal
It’s odd this love I have for you
It’s meant for you to break
So don’t regret you’re leaving me
It’s what I want, it’s no mistake
So I bid you well as you travel on
As you walk out that door
Because it’s like you’re coming back to me
As you seek what you were meant for
Because it’s like you’re coming back to me
As you seek what you were meant for
Mr. Pahl,
Written April 27, 2011 when you were gone for PSAE
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To My Seniors, Spring, 2009
(Partings)
Some people are just singing a song
and others sing along
But I’m not really singing a song
I’m just hoping you find where you belong.
It’s me and you, and you not me
Sailing on a farewell sea
The place where you sit
Someone else will be in it
I won’t lie
The years roll by.
(Diamond)
Soon you will be making history
And I wrote the story just for you and me
And like a diamond glistening in the sunshine
My heart flutters, my eyes turn
Oh how the time does fly.
Partings fill the universe with sorrow
Until that bright tomorrow
So in all your partings
Let wisdom show you how
To find the future
Here and now.
May, 1973
A child, like a dog, is ruled by force,
Applied by masters from a greater sphere;
So while naiveté does run its course
Rich inner buried treasure can't appear.
Such guidance though is not without its right,
For while constraint lays waste to sparkling charm
It steadfast overlords the pow'rs of Night
Which, gone uncheck'd, will do the spirit harm.
Yet freedom will in time its urge erupt;
When dog and child hear the wild's call
They must obey, so master's law corrupt
For momentary lust that tempts a fall:
The wild taunts the soul with promise strong
That can fulfill but often leads to wrong.
This Rodeo (C Am Em D C G)
I can see
What will happen to you and me
I’ve been doing this dance…before we start
We’ve had some history
Your youth and energy
Will start making this deal
You’ll nestle in my heart
And turn it like a Ferris wheel
So take it slow
It’s the truth, I don’t want to let it go
You're the one I’m looking for
Could you hide when you go out that door?
We can live
Happily forever more
If we bind our time together
In a common core
The sun will shine
The wind will blow
The rain will come….
And the snow…
I’ll look up
You’ll be gone
And if we meet again…
I will sing you this song…
(Repeat that verse)
This song….,
August 12, 2014, thinking of the students I am about to meet