FAWM Compositions: FAWM 2017

When I look into the news I see the words that are the muse For pundits, writers, lyricists and bards Everything and everywhere Everyone with no one spared Finds themselves subjected to the barbs When I look for sanity - Protest Is Everywhere When I look for compassion - Power Is Everything When I seek the good old times - Past Is Eclipsing When I ask for kinder words - Parley Is Exempted Fear the future, keep the past Wonder now if I should ask Questions, raising, bearing on my mind Finding I am overwrought With feelings that are all for naught It’s always hopeless, no one else is kind Now I look for light in dark - Progress Is Emerging And I seek the words that heal - Perfect In Expression Or I sing with all my heart - Polytone Is Effortless And I see the colored lights - Purple Is Everywhere

Chorus D 
It was A 
just a E7 
teenage A 
dream D 
That I should be a A 
rock E7 
star The girls were always there to scream I was a rock star Only life got in the way I’m not a rock star Fifty years have passed away D 
I can’t be E7 
a rock A 
star But what if my teenage dream Was not that far-fetched The songs that are inside me stream Imagination stretched And as in my teenage dream I see myself on stage Filling halls at every scene Being all the rage Chorus Bridge All it takes is an attitude Of competence and gratitude For those that helped me on the way And then I’m ready to sing and play It was just a teenage dream One I’m now fulfilling And though it seems a fruitless scheme Pursuit could be so thrilling Watch the press and see it happen Headlines screaming out my name Soon you’ll all be there and clapping As I finally find my fame. Chorus It was just a teenage dream That I should be a rock star The girls were always there to scream I was a rock star Only life got in the way I’m not a rock star Though fifty years have passed away I can be a rock star