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Counting my Daughters

On March 4, 2020March 4, 2020 By Catherine Thomas HumphreysIn ”Expression SongsLeave a comment

Capo 5th Fret Verse Em Am C Em Chorus Em6 Am Em Bridge C D2 Em I don’t know the times I’ve counted, Counted my fails, Counted my falls. I don’t wait for answers to questions, Questions I’ve wondered, Questions I’ve why’d. I know what’s behind meWaiting for no-manCounting my daughtersCounting my sonsWhere are they …

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Hill

On February 27, 2020February 27, 2020 By Catherine Thomas HumphreysIn 366/2020, “Expression Projects, ”Expression SongsLeave a comment

Em, C D verseEm D C chorus Please forgive me if I ask in vain We met before I don’t recall your name We walked in silence through my pouring rain Helped dissolve my self-inflicted pain Gonna be a long hard summerIn a slow-fall declineWithout you, without you on my mind Safe beside you til …

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Breathe

On January 11, 2020January 11, 2020 By Catherine Thomas HumphreysIn 366/2020, “Expression Projects, ”Expression SongsLeave a comment

Am F - C G Am F I tried to breath out to confess The dark-cloud secret in my chest A pure man could not hear my sin I need to find a different one. Saw him dancing in the storm He did not know that I was born Falling wildly unconstrained I could not …

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Somebody

On November 10, 2019December 27, 2019 By Catherine Thomas HumphreysIn ”Expression SongsLeave a comment

Gm2 F Eb F Saw you smile through the windscreen Touched my heart Stirred my soul Rush of a madness inside of me Lost control. - Wouldn't I Rather be Somebody Than nobody to you Take the lead Let me believe - Felt your breath brush against my dream A passing touch I could never …

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Write your Name

On November 9, 2019December 27, 2019 By Catherine Thomas HumphreysIn ”Expression Songs2 Comments

Am2 Cmj2 Gmj2 Em2 Bm~Am | Am C G Em | Write your name on a cigarette paper, roll it up I'll smoke you later, on, if, I've the time or half the mind to sign on your dotted line. I find, I can't define, the fine line, I walk behind with you. There's a …

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A Shuffle of Grandads

On October 22, 2019December 27, 2019 By Catherine Thomas HumphreysIn “Expression Poems, Open Link Night11 Comments

a shuffle of grandads an aching of bones an aching of waiting a weighting of days a set in of ways a lone of being a being of alone.   a drift of forgotten a company of estranged a part of the past a party of none a promise of lost a murder of grief …

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Silence Knows Your Name

On August 23, 2019December 27, 2019 By Catherine Thomas HumphreysIn “Expression Poems, Free-expression8 Comments

Dark would not yield this morn, like the widow heavy in sorrow, darkness held on.   Hope of light suspended, to the weighted veil that blackens, both sky and heart.   silence knows your name, silent is your name and gone with it, our dawn.

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