Unstuck In Time

(Music and Lyrics:  Sam Mullins)

Hey Little Queen, My Josephine
Is it time to put away my childish things?
You look at me, like I was lost
Maybe we just got our signals crossed.
I was wrong, you belong in another century
Another time, another place, another me.

Forgot my name for awhile
The boys on C street had to pull it from my file
Identities, they seem to fade
They’re as easily destroyed as they are made
When you say, “Go away”
What can I do but comply
I was not born, I’m not alive, I will not die.

Unstuck in Time without you
Watching for signs of something new
I don’t mind

It may be late, but I’m not sure
The line between the past and present is a blur
I do not need your well-laid plans
I can always come back for a second chance
History, what may be
Are all the same to me
I cannot hear, cannot feel, I cannot see

Unstuck in Time without you      (Here tomorrow, gone today)
My clock unwinds to ’82             (Nineteen-hundred-eighty-two)
I don’t mind

Word Games

(Music and Lyrics: Kylie Buddin and Sam Mullins)

I’d like to buy a vowel
How about a silent “e”
At the end of the love you promised me
You’re playing a scrabble game
Where an “I” is worth a hundred times a “U”
But I guess that’s nothing new.

Word games, crossword puzzles.
Occupy your day
My name can’t be found
In any of those word games that you play

You won the spelling bee
In nearly every grade
There’s not a verb that you can’t conjugate
I’m looking for a seven letter word for you
It starts with an “a” and ends with “e”
It’s a part of the human anatomy.

aeiou

Do I have to spell it out
To write a note in the margins of a newspaper
I’m L-E-A-V-I-N-G