As a teenager, I used to write them down on paper and decorate the walls of my room with those sheets.
Now I’m 51 and I still write down favorite lyrics. Some things just never change. But now I can share my taste in music and my favorite lyrics with a whole world outside. Isn’t that exciting???? (Although my 15-year-old extremely introverted self isn’t particularly fond of my idea). Anyway, it’s now or never and here is the first one of (hopefully) much more blog posts about lyrics.
Frank Turner: Poetry of the Deed
They’re coming out of the walls,they’re coming up through the streets,
they’re quicksilver wracked by some invisible beat.
Right outside of your door, the very stones come alive.
They are the spring in the step, the distant look in the eyes.
Put your Baudelaire away and come outside and play.
Me and all my friends are poets of the deed,
we’re exactly what this country needs.
We scratch until we’re drunk, we drink until we bleed.
We are what we believe.
Pentameter in attack, iambic pulse in the veins,
free verse powered of the street light mains,
an Iliad played out without a shadow of doubt
between the end of the club and the sun coming out.
Leave Kerouac at his desk, we have romance in our risks.
Me and all my friends are poets of the deed,
we’re exactly what this country needs.
We scratch until we’re drunk, we drink until we bleed.
And here’s what we believe:
Before we get bored, let’s be inspired,
let’s ignore the applause and set the theatre on fire,
fight every war like the drunks in the choir,
put our art where our mouths are:
Poetry of the deed.
So enough with words and technical theses,
let’s grab life by the throat and live it to pieces.
We can choose, we can change, and if we don’t,
we’re just afraid of living life like we’re loved and in love
and alive to all the things we could be
if we just believed that life is too short to live without poetry.
If you got soul darling now come on and show it me.
But life is too long to just sing the one song,
so we’ll burn like a beacon and then we’ll be gone.
You can watch the video here: Poetry of the Deed
Why do I like this song so much? It represents all I love about music: smart lyrics, bold statements and a romantic’s view on life. What’s not to love about that?
You’ll find this and many more great songs on Frank Turner’s third album “Poetry of the Deed”. If you want to know more about Frank Turner, visit his Homepage!
And if you instantly fell in love with the music, buy it here:
I hope you enjoyed reading. Keep going!
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