It's rainin' but there ain't a cloud in the sky
Musta been a tear from your eye
Everything'll be okay
Funny thought I felt a sweet summer breeze
Musta been you sighin' so deep
Don't worry we're gonna find a way

I'm waitin', waitin' on a sunny day
Gonna chase the clouds away
Waitin' on a sunny day

Without you I'm workin' with the rain fallin' down
Half a party in a one dog town
I need you to chase the blues away
Without you I'm a drummer girl that can't keep a beat
And ice cream truck on a deserted street
I hope that you're coming to stay

I'm waitin', waitin' on a sunny day
Gonna chase the clouds away
Waitin' on a sunny day

Hard times baby, well they come to tell us all
Sure as the tickin' of the clock on the wall
Sure as the turnin' of the night into day
Your smile girl, brings the mornin' light to my eyes
Lifts away the blues when I rise
I hope that you're coming to stay

(Bruce Springsteen)

Nickel

Almost slept a full eight hours last night
I only dreamt of you a couple of times
We were at a party holding hands
Drinking a glass of wine

Took the pictures down off of the wall
It didn’t hurt too much at all
‘cept for the ones from Mexico
Under the bright sunshine

Like pocket change, my moods range
From one day I’m a quarter, the next I am a dime
Today I feel like a nickel, but I’ll be fine
I may look like a nickel, but I’ll be fine

Couple of friends rang me up this week
Wondering why we never speak
I just ignored the telephone
Lived like an island

Like pocket change, my moods range
From one day I’m a quarter, the next I am a dime
Today I feel like a nickel, but I’ll be fine
I may look like a nickel, but I’ll be fine

And I don’t understand a thing these days
I just try to walk a line
Hoping one day I will be feeling fine
I thought of calling you today
Don’t think we have too much to say
Just a silence through the wires
And an ache and desire

Like pocket change, my moods range
From one day I’m a quarter, the next I am a dime
Today I feel like a nickel, but I’ll be fine
I may look like a nickel, but I’ll be fine

~ Steve Poltz

[ Nickel Lyrics on http://www.lyricsmania.com/ ]

Norma gathers and collects

Greta's cedar hope chest Is full of pamphlets Glass shelves of romantic vignettes A journal laced with sedimentary prose Norma gathers and collects vintage photoplays Hair combs valentines Lillian allows the animals to scratch Leather crack Mail collect in the box coatings peel Agnes veiled cathedral dweller Smiles with benevolent pain It's Katrina's fair Tuesday morning As she with caution unlatches the flat door She alone cascades to the basement Careful not to spoil her Calico printed pinafore Composite traits mannerists All others dissipate Margauritte vigilant dwells upon frigid casements Sarah's thoughts in the velocity Accusations always pierce and pass Clara abandons her passions for distastes Miss Lenora P. Sinclair Early for coffee in the pool "I'm resituating all your words" Capital Space Colon Paragraph Sylvia keeps beasts in jars labeled Kingdom phylum class order family genus species.

(~Natalie Merchant 'Katrina's Fair' lyrics)