turndown blues

thoughts of you are mostly grim
and usually get me down
i think of all those times that couldn't swim
and why we let them drown

sometimes i forget the ways
we rolled the dice of love
gambled nights against the days
and went from push to shove

we danced like fools fal'n into a whirl
and stiffed the fiddler's due
times ran wild and in a swirl
that turned the whole world blue

1979