Tag: Youth

  • When We Were Young

    When We Were Young

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    How Do You Know Which Way To Go? the road not taken when glory was at our feet and we were so young Adele on Saturday Night Live

  • Before It Happens

    Before It Happens

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    Everything Is Possible at the beginning before life happens to you it’s all possible

  • The Comfort Of Strangers

    The Comfort Of Strangers

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    Sauce For The Goose when I was young and fit and looked good in jeans and had something the girls liked (though I still don’t know what that was) I was hooked off the street by a pretty young stranger who was home alone and she led me up to her pink bedroom that smelled…

  • Young Blades

    Young Blades

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    Young Blades They were only boys, young blades, like me, and just as blunt and unproven, wanting to show that they could be sharp and hard and fearsome. We were all scared of them. They were a gang, a known, nameable group, to be feared and avoided, and I was not one of them. Out…

  • Not Crazy But Mad

    Not Crazy But Mad

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    Not Crazy But Mad They aren’t crazy It isn’t that. That’s how they look, with their broken glass stare and brass face and all, and the way they stand, upright, unbending, unyielding, not a cower in them, but no, they aren’t crazy. Not crazy, but mad. They’re young, unburnt and unsullied yet, but they can…

  • The Armour Of Youth

    The Armour Of Youth

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    Youth is like armour. It shields us from many things, but not from our age.

  • Motown Musical

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    Motown musical A tuneful of memories From my dancehall daze

  • Youth Club

    Youth Club

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    Boarded up youth club All the kids have long since gone Now going nowhere