Thank you for sharing this song, 

I like the imagery that it provides the reader with, of children, of relationships, and of the past.  One can relate to it very much in this sense.   


-  jdh

Hey Robert.

I also can make no reference to song lyrics without hearing the music. What sounds trite and flat on paper sounds like the heavens opened up when put to the right music. 

These lyrics look fine to me. But without music I hear someone sitting on a bench saying this stuff to someone else. 

Lets take Jimi Hendrix guitar out of his songs, or Elton John's piano. It is just nearly impossible to judge song lyrics without hearing the song to me. 

James

WWW didn't break... and in fact the little picture looks amazingly like my former college-days buddy in Clearwater, Florida who was the best man in our wedding!

anticipating hearing the Light tinkle of your tune, Daniel 

Robert,

I'm so glad that Daniel commented on this and brought it to my attention. I believe you posted a link for me in response to one of my comments in a poem and I had planned to come back to it for my reply and see that, in fact, I did not. 

I have never written a song and have no musical talent or background so I can't be much help in the crit department. I do like what your song says. I believe the best songs are the ones that anyone can relate to and you have certainly achieved that. I often download lyrics to songs I like just to look at them and it amazes me how flat they appear on paper when you compare them to the life they have when you add voice and music to them, but maybe a musician sees words differently??? It leaves me in awe of the whole musical process.

Diane

In my minds eye 

I was looking back at the time we've shared since the day we met.

Life was simple then we were young and soon became more than friends.

I can see you now walking down the aisle.

I’m with my best man.

Not forgotten, it's recorded, in my minds eye.

 

In my minds eye, are the pictures of our life gone by.

Memories good and bad, happy times and sad ones, recorded there.

I can see them.

I don't even have to close my eyes.

Vivid pictures of you,

In my minds eye.

 

As we've shared our life, and as I reflect over all the years.

All the arguments, making up and making the best of things.

Sometimes it was tough love was not enough, but we made it through.

These are moments that's recorded, in my minds eye.

 

In my minds eye I can see the day each child was born.

Each the product of our sweet love, completing our family bond.

From the oldest to the youngest how I love them all.

Each one sharing a place, in my minds eye.

 

Yes I love you dear and through out the years as our life goes on.

Watching our kids grow I want you to know.

You can depend on me.

And when we're apart all I have to do is to think of you.

And you'll be standing in the middle of my minds eye.

 

In my minds eye, are the pictures of our life gone by.

Memories good and bad, happy times and sad ones, recorded there.

I can see them.

I don't even have to close my eyes.

Vivid pictures of you,

In my minds eye.

 

All I do is think of you.

You’ll be standing there.

Smiling sweetly.

In the middle of my minds eye.

 

 

© Robert W. Hullender