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Adelaide (Lyric) by wilco

I’m so tired of pretending that everything’s okay. Maybe I could sleep through Christmas again this year and wake up on New Years Day. It’s all coming down now that everything’s okay. Sometimes I go to sleep in the snow with the hope that I’ll wake up warm and safe. Adelaide, I’m coming home and it’s been so long since I’ve said a prayer that I hope you can forgive what I’ve done. Adelaide, I’ve got a bullet in my head and my knees are weak. I’ve taken everything I love with a grain of salt and spread it all through my wounds. I’m so tired of waking up and thinking I’m okay. Maybe I could be better if I slept through another South Pacific dream. Safely coming down now and everything’s okay. I woke up in the snow again with nothing left to hold me in place. Adelaide, I’m coming home and it’s been so long since I’ve said a prayer that I hope you can forgive what I’ve done. Adelaide, I’ve got a picture in my head and my will is weak. I’ve taken everything she loved with an endless weight that’s moved my wounds to scar.

ALChemy 13-Oct-05/3:46 PM
It still comes off as love between you and something (city or woman or whatever) and the bullet wounds and other more subtle things imply war even if it's some kind of metaphor. You humanized a city but left pretty much no clue to us geographically challenged that it was a city you were talking to.
Unless different interpretations is what your going for it's not necessarily a good thing.
I still like its melodic qualities.




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