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In Between
Was I left here at this station to wait for your arrival? Because there’s not a life at stake it’s more than mere survival To stand alone...

Dave Soyars
Aug 20, 20221 min read
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Finished With Me
Tried to be your savior - but you called me your curse And once we stopped our shouting is when things got worse and worse Now I'm left...

Dave Soyars
Nov 24, 20241 min read
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Everything That is You
Or the opposite of you Changes at the instant of definition, Reverses at the end of sex or song (Every genre/gender). Gone the minute...

Dave Soyars
Sep 14, 20241 min read
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WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP
Hello friends old and new. As most of you are already aware, I have been involved with many great musical projects as a bass player and...

Dave Soyars
Jul 11, 20244 min read
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For Tom Verlaine
Tele-: span the distance, -Vision: observed gratefully, every note a ghostly image, then silence. It’s that silence that you learned to...

Dave Soyars
Jan 31, 20231 min read
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Untitled 1
"What could be simpler," she asks, "Than this." As she asks as if I built this grace that she is; Asks for all that I give uneasily. As...

Dave Soyars
Nov 26, 20222 min read
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Movie reviews coming soon!
I want to start writing them again. It's been a while and I enjoy it. I will post them here when I do. Meanwhile, enjoy some past ones...

Dave Soyars
Mar 19, 20221 min read
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There Goes The Neighborhood - Morning Jackhammers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QeMYcr25dg (Dave) Didn’t see quite how it all began – but I dreamed of how it would end In the same...

Dave Soyars
Mar 14, 20222 min read
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WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP
Hello friends old and new. As most of you are already aware, I have been involved with many great musical projects as a bass player and...

Dave Soyars
Feb 5, 20224 min read
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LEAVE IT
I have no further interest in your schadenfreude I know I've always been someone you'd rather avoid So what made you think that I'd come...

Dave Soyars
Aug 1, 20211 min read
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A Record That Will Never Be Broken
Albert Pujols holds the all-time MLB record for times Grounded Into Double Play - that number currently stands at 406. His closest...

Dave Soyars
May 31, 20211 min read
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It’s About Time
Those were the times, she said, that you didn’t have to think about it much. Just get in the car and go. To the beach, To the woods, To...

Dave Soyars
May 28, 20211 min read
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The Last Heart Beating
Your friends are either gone or fleeing there’s no time left for disagreeing The time has come to freeze or fly, so clear your head or...

Dave Soyars
May 6, 20212 min read
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For International Poetry Day, one of mine
Still, I am living in your first impression. Sometimes, in the darkness, I pretend not. I feel I must welcome you this way, Or this other...

Dave Soyars
Mar 22, 20211 min read
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Why Scattered But Complete?
It’s a phrase I first came up with back in 19… I should probably just stop there. Chop my lifeline roughly in half and start from near...

Dave Soyars
Mar 19, 20213 min read
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Who did what?
I Hear My Friends Dave - All vocals, acoustic guitar, bass Jerry Strull - Steel guitars Produced by David Nigel Lloyd and Dave. Recorded...

Dave Soyars
Feb 20, 20212 min read
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I Hear My Friends
I Hear My Friends It took me by surprise to see her on the street with another man I did not want to meet. But she saw me walking by. She...

Dave Soyars
Feb 19, 20211 min read
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This One's For You
It's what is put before you that will matter in the end It's the gist of an idea that was stolen from a friend I know there must be...

Dave Soyars
Feb 8, 20211 min read
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Mirage
We have lived this kind of lie before And made it out to fight again You held on with such a certainty And the strength of several...

Dave Soyars
Feb 6, 20211 min read
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Villanelle
I walk too slowly or too quickly I get confused, forget my destination My feet are sore, my voice is sickly So that you, my better, can’t...

Dave Soyars
Jan 31, 20211 min read
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