Look At Me (song lyrics)

Look at me, boy how things have changed

Don’t know how life got so rearranged

Never saw it coming but it feels so good

 

One day my eyes, my heart, my soul opened up

Life’s been full of surprises since I was a young pup

Your love is what saved me, and it feels so good

 

Can’t plan it, or force it, love will come to you

Can’t tell you how often, can’t even tell you who

Life’s hard and sometimes things just get in the way

But if you’re open to it, love will come to you and stay

 

Sometimes we’re blessed to find what really matters

To our hearts content, nothing’s left in tatters

Didn’t think this way for a long time, why couldn’t I see?

Now look at me, now look at me

 

Having a drink in an old country bar

Sitting with strangers, listening to a guy play guitar

The bar tender looks twelve, pours another beer

Three old men talking loud force me to me hear

 

It’s been a hell of a week working in my torn dungarees

Has me thinking is this how it ought to be?

Then I smile, ‘cause it might not have turned out okay

If in 3rd grade, Mrs. Harrington hadn’t sat me in your way

 

You’re the best thing that ever happened to me

Just to see your smile makes it all as it should be

I wasn’t this way for a long time, why couldn’t I see?

Now look at me, now look at me

 

One old man sees the smile on my face and says

Your newlywed glow will soon be gone without a trace

Didn’t have the heart to tell him it’s been fifteen years

Since I fell in love with you forever, ‘cause it’s the heart that hears

 

As I drive up to our house that night

I remember the last time we sat and cried

Expecting our first child, we were so scared

Thinking back on that time, so special and shared

 

Sometimes we’re blessed to find what really matters

To our hearts content, nothing left in tatters

Been this way a long time, why couldn’t I see?

Now look at me

Look at me

 

Ripples (my attempt at Haiku)

Under the sufrace

a Fall stream elk hair caddis erupts

Fish leaps, ripples again