The Frog

I woke up in the morning, and had a dream about a frog.

He said, “I think we should try to pray.” Before he faded to the fog.

Henry’s sick and my girl’s asleep and the world keeps spinning around.

I prayed for this, cause I can’t weep, even when I’m feeling down.

I’m driving on the Lakeshore. The view is better in the day.

Going slower, I see more, than the grind of that highway.

The sun is slowly sinking. Everybody made it through.

There never was a worry, but that’s just what I do.

Dennis Mantin

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Diamond Mine by James Cuddy & Greg Keelor Favorite Lyrics Series

I hear all these rumors about you. Trash lines up at my door just to bring me the news.

All it does is kind of make me wonder, why people so eager to be so cruel.

You say that the parties over. But like a drunken fool, I never know when to leave. It’s just that in the eyes of this beholder. You mean everything to me.

Cause when I look into your eyes. Our love shines… like a diamond mine.

Dennis Mantin

Watching The Detectives Elvis Costello Favorite Lyrics Series.

I don’t know how much more of this I can take.

She’s filing her nails while they’re dragging the lake.

The Detectives come to check if you belong to the parents. Who are ready to accept the worst about their daughter’s disappearance.

Though it nearly took a miracle to get you too stay. It only took my little finger just to blow you away.

Just like watching the Detectives.

Don’t get cute.

Just like watching the Detectives.

She is watching the Detectives.

I get so angry when the teardrops start.

He can’t be wounded cause he’s got no heart

Dennis Mantin

Vase

There are flowers on the table.

There is water in the vase.

There’s a story in this fable.

We keep hidden in a maze.

I only miss what could have been.

I don’t think about what was.

What I have in here and now.

No excuses, no because.

You don’t believe I’ve moved on.

I don’t believe I care.

There’s a memory now of me and you.

And you were far from fair.

Dennis Mantin

Desolation Row – Bob Dylan Favorite Lyrics Series

Now the moon is almost hidden.

The stars are beginning to hide.

The fortune telling lady.

Has even taken all her things inside.

All except for Cain and Abel.

And the Hunchback of NOTE Dame.

Everyone is making love.

Or else expecting rain.

And the good Samaritan he’s dressing.

He’s getting ready for the show.

He’s going to the carnival tonight.

On Desolation Row.

Dennis Mantin