Running Barefoot

This was performed as a blues song at Beetnics Cafe in Marion,IN USA.

I'm running barefoot in the street.

Don't need any shoes on my feet.

I'm running around without a care.

The wind is flowing through my hair.

 

I'm running naked in the road.

My clothes were too much of a load.

I threw them all into the trash.

I have no pockets for my cash.

 

What cash? I gave that all away.

I'm sure I'll get it back someday.

If I need some, I'll make some more.

Besides, what's that money for.

 

A vehicle for your desire.

Your comfort makes you the buyer.

Right now, I just want to be me.

I find comfort in being free.

 

I'm free***to run all through my mind.

On streets inside my head I find,

The comfort that outside I seem to miss.

Inside is where I find my bliss.

 

I take the road inside my skull.

It doesn't lead to any mall.

It leads to where I can be free

to run naked and just be me.

 

 

M.J.S.

Reviews

[Raef C. Boylan]

"I want to be naked, running through the streets
I want to invite this so called chaos, that you'd think I dare not be
I want to be weightless, flying through the air
I want to drop all these limitations at the shoes upon my feet
I want to be naked, running through the streets
I want to invite this so called chaos, that you'd think I dare not be
I want to be weightless, flying through the air
I want to drop all these limitations and return to what I was born to be"

- Alanis Morissette, 'So-Called Chaos'

My mind linked them up together as companions.

I like this; the breezy rhythm and the important message, i.e. materialism isn't all there is to life.
Looking forward to the day your songs are on the radio, eliminating the bland and shallow
[even if this one is a poem, it makes equally good lyrics...choruses are generally lame anyway]

Great piece.
Thanks for posting it.

[The Archangel Gabriel]

Great work! Those two read requests were wonderful selections! They seemed to be just what I needed at the time.

-Gabe

[George Love]

Well, if you were here, you freeze various parts of your anatomy off, literally. Well done, great ideas and well written