New Earth

New Earth:

I:

V1:

No more billionaires

no more stocks or shares

no more deceit or lies

no more  pain and no one dies

V2:

It may seem insane 

You may think the same

You may misunderstand 

Or you may not know the plan.

C:

New Earth waiting for the New Earth 

Waiting for my rebirth

and I’m going to stay on earth

clean planet clean earth

B:

animations were sketched out lying in bed 

in the wee hours using my iPad mini 

with the Rough Animator App. 

 imported into Clip studio on my Mac 

where the animation was timed out.                            

I did not touch up the sketches.

V3:

sleeping without breath

we will rise from death 

it’s hard to comprehend  

it gets clearer at the end 

C:

O:

© 8/24/2023 Robert E. Thompson 

DeathRow

Death Row

I:

V1:

prison cell old folks home

sit and wait all alone

difference is just the sign

here I sit doing my time

V2:

doctor or governor 

someone who knows the score 

someone please make it be

do what you can setting me free 

C: 

sit here waiting

on death row

is there a reprieve 

I’ll soon know

B:

V3:

Innocent of the crime

Still I’m here doing time

Know what I did lived my fill

you have a cell I have a pill

C:

O:

©2023 8/7/23 Robert E. Thompson

Blameless

Blameless

I:

V1:

There’s many monsters and they

bite and sting 

spitting venom 

like a cobra king 

V2:

Go get a lawyer but he 

won’t be free 

 he might help you

with a guilty plea

C:

blameless yeah we're 

blameless and the 

guilty remain

nameless

B:

V3:

They have the charges But they 

can’t be sure

They say guilty

but you claim that you are pure

C:

O:

©️2023 Robert E. Thompson 

7/16/23

Fishing

Fishing

I:

V1:

Paul waking as it dawned

Grabbed his morning bread and yawned

Has his sandals on his feet 

Sun was rising over Crete 

V2:

Jake met Paul as he  docked

Paul could sense Jake’s mind was locked

Jake gave Paul some wine and cheese

You could see they weren’t at ease

C:

Fishing in a no fish zone

they told Paul to just go home

back to Athens and fish free

That’s where all your fish should be

B:

V3

Paul gets caught in a storm 

he was safe ‘cause he’d been warned  

He was warmed and He was fed

He would go where he was led

C:

O:   

Shivering

Shivering  

I:

V1:

Willy known as slick

started feeling sick

eggs over easy sizzle

in that Hanover drizzle  

V2:

Jack Sprat ate no fat

beans and toast that’s that 

he never went to yorktown

when those winds really blew down 

C:

Shivering in Yorktown

Shivering in Detroit 

Drizzle in Hanover

Shiver ‘till it’s over

B:

V3:

who knew Admiral Byrd

in Detroit they’d heard  

freezing his dogs he got rich 

sliced them up for a sandwich 

C:

O: