Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Pillow Like Billows, David Hubbard


Pillow Like Billows, David Hubbard

Pillow like billows
Weeping willows
On my window 
Silhouetted  
By
The tiny surprise

And the shiny 
Little light I put in the grass

Pillow like billows
Weeping willows
On my window 
Silhouetted  
By
The tiny surprise
And the shiny 
Little light I put in the grass

Sunday, May 29, 2011

She Cries, Craig Hubbard, 2002...





She Cries

She Cries

© 2002 Craig Hubbard
It's classless from the start
It's underneath the stars of a foreign sky
It's empty and its hallow here w/o you.
So my instincts move my eyes
Her laughter and her smile take me by surprise
The hallways warm and lighted so I enter
And I hear you cry - not my name
I hear you sigh - the mystery remains
But I can't take you home if that's your intention
I can't take you home
You'll never be a part of my memory
I can't take you home if that's your intention
But I often find myself alone
So should I compromise?
Should I?
The interpretation's true
Your motivations make me questions you
I'm stronger and I'm wise beyond my years
Suicidal smile
But I don't know all the things that burden you
You're younger that your years and so I watch you
And I hear you cry - not my name
I hear you sigh - the mystery remains
But I can't take you home if that's your intention
I can't take you home
I can't take the place of a fantasy
I can't take you home if that's your intention
What's your intention?
She cries - I try my best to understand
She cries

Saturday, May 28, 2011

"June" An Original By David Hubbard


“June”  By David Hubbard

Rolling down a hill I've never rambled
Standing silent in a patch of brambles
Everything looks to me of late
Like something I think I could take and take


Showers wash the rocks of sand
Everything looks like it's from a strange land
Sister crying in the street
Tears are falling down to splash at her feet


The road's awash with sand and gravel
Long it's been since such as a storm as that's come
There's a boat out on the lake
Rocking up against the wake


Yesterday was a disaster
Tried to catch the girl but she was faster
Left me standing on the pier
Without a shred of comfort anywhere


Water falls a hundred feet
But the jagged rocks below are not deep
Where you used to walk on walls
But you never stood on falls


In the day you like to fight and fight
But you're vulnerable and sexy at night
Glance at me to see me swoon
807 flies at noon
Maybe I'll see you in June

Friday, May 27, 2011

Me and Marna Talking Blues, My Own Ballad Of Forty Dollars

Me and Marna Talking Blues My Own Ballad Of Forty Dollars



From the language school in Monterey in 1958
I hitched to San Diego to take a needed break
My older sister Marilyn had lived there for a while
With husband Jim and Marna, a seven month old child

They picked me up in a 54 bright green Ford two door coupe,
The backseat full of groceries, to feed the weekend group
With Marilyn in the middle and Marna on her lap,
Jim drove, me in the death seat,  in my beat-up Army cap

We were driving to Ramona on a fast 4 lane highway,
I recall the sun was brilliant on that cloudless summer day
At 65 we smoothly cruised through mountain vistas wide
Till some guy ran a stop sign and hit us in the side.

The death seat door snapped open, in a blink of shocked alarm,
I hit the road at 60 per with a baby in my arms
I recall my sister flying by in a storm of milk and flour
As Jim one-handed steered the car so he wouldn’t run us over

On heels and butt I slid along but then I lost my grip
As Marna’s legs began to slide real low beside my hips.
Then suddenly we took a bounce and then we flew like birds
As Marna’s leg outside my thigh hit a concrete curb

Then everything was blurry and my mind and body buzzed
As I wondered what had happened and where the baby was.
In just about a second,  four Navy Corpsman came
And piled us all on stretchers & made sure we knew our names.

You see, a Navy ambulance was just behind our Ford
They quickly gathered us all up and took us to their ward.
Marna’s leg was badly bruised, my sister cut her lip,
I seemed fine but my old jeans were split up to the hip.

We finally got all sorted out and went on home to eat,
Bruised and sore and all of us unsteady on our feet.
When I got up next morning I felt a little sick
I thought that  every inch of me’d been beaten with a stick.

I caught a bus to Monterey an 8 hour painful ride
I had to get back to the base before my pass expired.
When I signed in next morning I heard the top kick say,
Who dragged you through a knothole?  You look like hell today.”

“I heard you went much further than the limits of your pass,
If you did and you admit it, the CO will have your ass.”
I was stiff and awful sore for just about a week
Then Top Kick called me in to meet a slick insurance geek.

He said  “I want to settle and my client wants release,
Here’s a check for $40 dollars, cash it quickly if you please.
The top kick growled at me and said “I can’t believe your luck,
You took  the world’s best friggin ride and got paid forty bucks”

Marna’s a grown woman now, she grew up warm and sweet
She’s got a loving family and every time we meet
I remind her that I saved her life and that she had all the luck
While all I got was a skinned up ass and a measly forty bucks.

Thursday, May 26, 2011

In a Tin-box © 2002 Craig Hubbard




 In a Tin-box
© 2002 Craig Hubbard Unintended consequences, arise now that he's around

Love for the living, living for love now abounds
But you can't break it, you can't slow it down
You can't stop flowers from growing in this furtile ground
You stir your drink, your cheeks are pink when he smiles at you
You brush his shoulder, sit back down as he studies the menu
Like many years ago, watching your TV
Living in Hollywood just swept you off your feet
And its unabated, its so complicated
Put another dollar in the jukebox
Who's watching over you? Who's taking care of you?
I still love you, even through your just his puppet in a tin-box
I could sit for hours, watching you primp and brush you hair
You'd catch me gazing, laugh and smile as you broke me stare
I couldn't do the lifting, I couldn't carry that weight
I was just a pawn, when I heard you say checkmate
And its unabated, its so complicated
Put another dollar in the jukebox
Who's watching over you? Who's taking care of you?
I still love you, even through your just his puppet in a tin-box

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

David Plays "All My Little Words", Magnetic Fields, Craig Harmony


David Plays “All My Little Words”, Magnetic Fields, Craig Harmony At David's China Party 5.21.2011

All My Little Words, Magnetic Fields


You are a splendid butterfly
It is your wings that make you beautiful
And I could make you fly away
But I could never make you stay
You said you were in love with me
Both of us know that that's impossible
And I could make you rue the day
But I could never make you stay

Not for all the tea in China
Not if I could sing like a bird
Not for all North Carolina
Not for all my little words
Not if I could write for you
The sweetest song you ever heard
It doesn't matter what I'll do
Not for all my little words

Now that you've made me want to die
You tell me that you're unboyfriendable
And I could make you pay and pay
But I could never make you stay

Monday, May 23, 2011

Craig Plays “Trouble” by Ray LaMontagne David’s China Going Away Party

David Harmony

It's a Vincent Black Lightning, 1952, Craig And David, David's China Party

Vincent Black Lightning:  Richard Thompson
Said Red Molly to James that's a fine motorbike
A girl could feel special on any such like
Said James to Red Molly, well my hat's off to you
It's a Vincent Black Lightning, 1952
And I've seen you at the corners and cafes it seems
Red hair and black leather, my favorite color scheme
And he pulled her on behind
And down to Box Hill they did ride

/ A - - - D - / - - - - A - / : / E - D A / 
    / E - D A - / Bm - D - / - - - - A - - - /

Said James to Red Molly, here's a ring for your right hand
But I'll tell you in earnest I'm a dangerous man
I've fought with the law since I was seventeen
I robbed many a man to get my Vincent machine
Now I'm 21 years, I might make 22
And I don't mind dying, but for the love of you
And if fate should break my stride
Then I'll give you my Vincent to ride

Come down, come down, Red Molly, called Sergeant McRae
For they've taken young James Adie for armed robbery
Shotgun blast hit his chest, left nothing inside
Oh, come down, Red Molly to his dying bedside
When she came to the hospital, there wasn't much left
He was running out of road, he was running out of breath
But he smiled to see her cry
And said I'll give you my Vincent to ride
 
Says James, in my opinion, there's nothing in this world
Beats a 52 Vincent and a red headed girl
Now Nortons and Indians and Greeveses won't do
They don't have a soul like a Vincent 52
He reached for her hand and he slipped her the keys
He said I've got no further use for these
I see angels on Ariels in leather and chrome
Swooping down from heaven to carry me home
And he gave her one last kiss and died
And he gave her his Vincent to ride

Saturday, May 21, 2011

Hawaiian Island World, David & Craig, Live & Obscene, 5.2.2011






Hawaiian Island Word Karl Walling, World Party

Hawaiian Island Word Karl Walling, World Party
i heard about the trouble down on the farm

they say they lost all the white horses
and half of the corn
the woman of the house
she came screaming into town
we said sister why go crying
when you can watch it all burn down
and sit here dreaming
of our hawaiian island world?

the preacher said his church has been empty
two sundays in a row
I said no father please forgive them
for they do not what they know
been called on by the devil
your man from down below
and traded in their free-will
for a part in Satan's show
and they don't hear the screaming
of a dying virgin girl
they just sit there wanting
their hawaiian island world

the shopkeeper from Illinois came round
a freshly fired gun in his hand
he said he'd just shot a young poet
for writing something he didn't understand
gone were the lines that he loved to forget
safe were the folk words of
truth would upset
with God right behind him
his gun by his side
there was nowhere for these weirdos
to run or to hide
the day of their judgement
it was due to arrive
get them on the record
make sure they don't survive
and we can all sit watching
our hawaiian island world
don't wake me 'cos I'm dreaming
of my hawaiian island world
I just made love to my hawaiian island girl

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Two Men, One Will Always Be Your Killer, One Will Always Be Your Friend: David Hubbard





Two Men
 ©David Hubbard 2011








Saw you out Sunday morning
In the cold, grey air all alone
Underneath your haggard clothing
Make your way back to your home
And you know he’s not going to be there
But he’s been gone this long before
Then you’ll smile at him as he takes you down
On your dirty kitchen floor


Well, you know I’d love to meet him
On a cold and winter’s night
I would smile as I’d greet him
And engage him in a fight
And I’d take your rage out on him
Something you would never do
And you’d never know that I‘d broke him
As he cried out to you


Well, I see my mind has wandered
I’ve become again two men
One will always be your killer
One will always be your friend
And will try to lead you from him
And will try to make him see
That you’d be much better off, Dear
If you’d leave the likes of me