Rock me to harmony

once I graduated with a too big bruce springsteen tee and too big shoes and tons of flowers and coronitas hangin' round my neck. it was raining, but we were the sunlights that day.

to listen to cat stevens, smoke a cigarette and look out the window and only see windows and clouds, it's a good life I'm livin'.

My father used to be a sea captain. He has a compass tattooed on his arm, I got the same one.
He used to have this big belly, and he used to say that he swallowed a basketball.
When he was out on the seas, I used to imagine him as Efraim, Pippi Långstrumps father.
My father said that he couldn't swim, but that I shouldn't worry
because he's belly would float him to land.
He's got six children, so he mix up the names alot. But since I was a baby
he has always called me Lilla djuret, small animal
and he still does.

My father and I have never been close. Though my mother tells us that we were his
number one priority when we were kids.
I can't remember that far back.
He chose to play with fire and he got burned.
Years has passed, the wounds turned into scars.
Though everything we've been through, everything that has happened
I would not have wanted anyone else to be my old man.

andersdotter

“Jade?”
“Alexander?”
“Do you remember that day you fell out of my window?”
“I sure do, you came jumping out after me.”
“Well, you fell on the concrete and nearly broke your ass and

you were bleeding all over the place and I rushed you off to the hospital.

Do you remember that?”
“Yes, I do.”
“Well, there’s something I never told you about that night.”
“What didn’t you tell me?”
“While you were sitting in the backseat smoking a cigarette you thought was going to be your last,

I was falling deep, deeply in love with you and I never told you ‘til just now.”

“Now I know.”