The Noresoup Jukebox

Chet Baker - I've Never Been In Love Before to be loved and have someone to love to be lucky to enjoy the gift of life when my whole life was spent striving to win imagine my surprise having you by my side and perhaps it scares me that it is with much ease that i find myself in you, with you, around and beside you loving has never been so slow with anyone else ~ ៷

Writer’s note: This poem is a Golden Shovel that borrows the line “the water is tender, green, curls, softly innocent, a lazy noose in the sunlight, I loved you, I know” from Olga Bromus’ poem “Love Lines” I remember our first trip, it was like the warmth came from you but cold was the water and I can't say what it is that makes your eyes so tender when you look at me, the grass turns green birds dance around my red, unruly curls that you stroke ever so softly well I've never loved but if I do, it is innocent it is for you and a few apologies are due if my ways get lazy but you understand, loving can become a noose no matter the colour of crazy it comes in it is scary that the world is brighter with you as sunlight and it must be embarrassingly obvious to you that i have never known what it means to die and be loved and that too, by you - no lover as fortunate as I as to say when asked about love - I know, I know, I know.  ~ ៷

Lana Del Rey - Norman F Rockwell fathers without their mothers i mean, fathers without their wives burdens heavy on a daughter's shoulders are burdens a mother had her whole life fathers without their mothers are fathers without forgiving wives  if i had to scale the mountain and put you across,  id rather you just book a flight fathers without their mothers fathers and their unfortunate wives cleaning up after you, grumbling, crying until their work appeases you, they cannot look alive men without women women loving men men fawning over other women women forgiving men men will find all the reasons to leave and women will still find spaces to keep them; i loved a man once, twice and then a third, but after the fourth, it was clear; men will always just be men.  ~ ៷

Lorde - Solar Power Last autumn, I was barely scraping by. The world seemed to have only tar in store for me. It became funny, my friends and I, We laughed at every unfortunate thing. I lost my phone and my hair fell out. On my birthday week, I might have lost 100 pounds. And a girl I loved told me I was mean and foul, That my years of friendship didn't count. When my finals came, I was drunk on caffeine. I was limping from the acid eating at my stomach. My friends could only watch, grimace and clean As I carried my tired body from my bed, desk and tub.  When I slept I often wondered why, The ceiling could not tell me, so I prayed and cried. But faith means trust that doesn't die, So I told myself, it would only be for a short while. Well, now it is summer; the storm has passed. I look around and see that things never last. My debts have been paid and I hope it's true, That at the end of all of this, He saved the biggest blessing; you. ~ ៷