By The River - By Carroll Bryant

BY THE RIVER - By Carroll Bryant 

I'm gonna lay

Gonna lay me down by the river

Raise my hands and then shed my skin

It's okay

To be good enough for decent 

I forgive myself for all my sins 

It so happens that life gets so little 

Before it gets too big

When you're young 

You only live to reach the middle 

Because you never think you will ever make it to the end 

That's the sickness

Being invincible 

Being all you can

 

I'm gonna lay

Gonna lay me down by the river

Raise my hands and then shed my skin

It's okay

To be good enough for decent 

I forgive myself for all my sins

Life's lemonade is made with imperfect lemons 

Bitter to the taste so swallow what you can

Mysteries and magic

You hold it in your hands

Best to be gentle and a gentleman 

We're only human

Woman to woman 

And man unto man 

I'm gonna lay

Gonna lay me down by the river

Raise my hands and then shed my skin

It's okay

To be good enough for decent 

I forgive myself for all my sins 

A team of wild horses couldn't pull me away 

Drag me away from the likes of you

So, listen closely

I will be your hero and I will be your fool 

That's the sickness

Being invincible 

Being all that you can 

We're only human

Woman to woman

And man unto man 

I'm gonna lay

Gonna lay me down by the river

Raise my hands and then shed my skin

It's okay

To be good enough for decent 

I forgive myself for all my sins

 

 

Carroll's Journey: If I Could Dream

Everyone and everything is trying to get to someplace. Life is just one part of many stops in which we experience along the journey.

When I die, I don't know to where my next adventure will begin, but if I could choose, I think I would want to begin the next phase in the moment when I had my first play-date with my little nephew, Caden.

We played derby cars and it was a wonderful day. And after spending a few thousand years in that moment, I would then like to travel to when... I was a young boy myself and go back to when I was walking with my dog Pepper in the woods one day. Nothing exciting occurred that day, just a boy walking in the woods with his dog. It was just simply a beautiful day. I don't know why I remember that day, or why i dream of it from time to time in my sleep, but it was a great moment of peace for me.

After spending a couple hundred years in that moment, i would then go to a day when I was sitting on the couch and watching a show on TV. My mother walked into the room and handed me a cup of vanilla pudding she had just made. She sat down on the couch with me with her own cup of pudding and she and I watched TV together and eating our pudding. I can't remember the show we watched, but that aint the point. I just remember watching Tv and eating pudding with her and thinking how much I loved my mother. And I would like to stay in that moment for a few hundred years.

After that, I would like to soar through the universe and see all of the amazing sights it has to offer. Maybe live inside a nebula for a few thousand years. That would be nice.

I don't know where the journey continues after this, or maybe I do, but one thing is for sure - I hope there isn't as much pain in the next life as there is in this one.

A man can dream, can't he?

Kim Kimmy - By Carroll Bryant

KIM KIMMY - By Carroll Bryant

Kim Kimmy

I was feeling a little bit down

Kim Kimmy

Sorting through memories until I had found
All the good times I spent with you

In the hot nights of summer

Your husband never knew 

Kim Kimmy

You stood about five feet seven

Kim Kimmy

Your perfect little body was my piece of heaven

For the sake of letting me in 

We escaped to our little island of sin 

Nobody even tried to figure it out 

And the earth moved

The sky fell apart

Two children of fate making out in the dark

And the music played on the radio station and then

Two people trying to solve mysteries - again

Kim Kimmy

I was only trying to look back

Kim Kimmy

My heart went off into another attack

Of all of the days that I need a kiss

Why does it always happen in a moment like this?

A family reunion of every emotion inside

And the earth moved

The sky fell apart

Two children of fate making out in the dark

And the music played on the radio station and then

Two people trying to solve mysteries - again 

We were baptized by the night 

Lurking undercover out in plain sight 

Never again, you said, to fall in love 

Kim Kimmy

I was feeling a little bit down

Kim Kimmy

Sorting through the memories until I had found you

And the earth moved

The sky fell apart

Two children of fate making out in the dark

And the music played on the radio station and then

And the earth moved

The sky fell apart

Two children of fate making out in the dark

And the music played on the radio station and then

Two people trying to solve mysteries - again 

Two people passing themselves off in the daylight as friends

Kim Kimmy

Kim Kimmy

Kim Kimmy

I'm doing it all over again