Feels like we just got here,
Somewhere near the end;
So you come then leave,
Expanding space since way back when ...
I planned to meet you but wanted it
To look as if it were by chance;
A little thing, seemed, a big risk,
For a shy one to boldly ask
If I may have this dance!
From my shadow side, unexamined,
You seem perfect and easily offended;
I know your type I used to be you,
Honesty makes you feel beautiful and blue;
You say let there be light
Then spread the darkness in space time;
I’m touched by your heart of gold
Stung by your logic of cold!
At the darkest hour, before dawn,
Lifts my spirit a mirage of hope,
Before you just about kill me,
New age yoga lady;
Now you me and the surroundings
All, figures in a painting,
Occasionally coming alive,
We don’t forget our place as still life,
We long to forget our place, as still life!
Oooh … Veronica’s Song!
credits
from Planet Paradise,
released March 21, 2019
Song written, edited and produced by A. El-Motassem
Music: A. El-Motassem/ M. Attias
Mounir Sobhi: Piano
Michaël Attias: Alto Sax
Ahmed El-Motassem: Vocals, drum beats
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