IN DEVELOPMENT:

BOBBY’S SISTER

Just Added! A beautiful language…butchered.

This song may not actually be “in development.” With apologies to Spanish speaking people everywhere, I like it just as it is.

A story of neighborhood tragedy. My Spanish is pretty awful, but my intentions are sincere. For those who can’t decipher the lyrics – which I suspect will be most everyone -- here they are:

VERSE 1:

Maria was there like the sun and the earth -- everyone’s sister

As kids we would play until long after dark

Lovely and sweet, eyes that sparkled with moonlight -- and made you adore her

She went straight to your heart

VERSE 2

Bobby would bring her wherever days took us

Like one of the boys, she was there for the fun

We’d play on the beach and we’d party past midnight

Maria there laughing like the gold summer sun

VERSE 3

You can’t stay young forever, my darling Maria

If only we could then nothing would ever change

The hold you had on me was born in a river

Of youthful emotion that knows no restraint

VERSE 4

I loved you in silence, loved you like a brother

But these feelings I have are not to be denied

I swim in your beauty, take flight in your laughter

Your spirit breathes through me and leaves me refined

CHORUS

Oh help me my father, for I have dissembled

From beauty and grace and from passion and fear

The love of a maiden so pure and so precious

Lord what have I done to a heart that’s so dear

Oh father forgive me, for I have deserted

The best friend that ever I had in this life

And Bobby forgive me, I did not mean to hurt her

The lovely Maria, who I knew as a child

VERSE 5

So walk with me father, as I go to the gallows

Take hold of my hand and lead me to God

I’ve begged for forgiveness, inside I am hollow

For the lovely Maria, I’ve paid with my life and my heart

The heart can’t deny what the heart hasn’t longed for

The heart only knows its own longing to find

That one other heart that can beat in close union

That one other soul all hearts long for to find

REPEAT CHORUS

So with that…

Bobby’s Sister

Thanks for listening.

August 10, 2006

Benicia, California

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