If I could write the music
If I could sing the song
If the strings did not confuse me
When I tried to strum along

If my talents were so nimble
I could play a spare duet
My fingers on the clavichord
My lips on clarinet

My voice a golden baritone
Alighting on your ears
Cascading through your heart and soul
And flowing through your tears   

I would serenade the beauty
Radiating from your eyes
Full of sultry innuendo
Veiled thinly by disguise

And the music and the lyrics
Would combine to sound so sweet
To thrill you in the places where
You hide your passion’s heat

Every verse my deepest feeling
To you I would confess
Every note a deeper longing
That my words could not express

VERY NICE!  This flows well...mature rhyming...and I love the idea....not sure what type of tune you've got in mind for this though....?

Dude, this is just for the album cover. 

dude this is great i love the first verse VERY much i have no complaints what so ever and i agree with spoon keep up the good work ill be looking for more work by you!

This could become a pretty soft kind of piano number... or even a nice acoustic guitar piece...


     I like the mood I get in reading them...

                    Well done...

                         JimK

Ooo Baby you got it!

That was excellent, thank you.

Too bad its not for music...I have something that goes perfect with this....

ow i seee....its a poem huh?


but its a GREAT poem!!!

It's so pretty...  I love it! I if you what I'll put it to music for you. I'm good at make solos, too.

Well wht can one say apart from, well u've done it again.

A+

Very original, I suggest repeating the first verse as a chorus, because it rocks..."yo".

 

this is really good  Simon

Flyer

If I could...

I like it!     

yes, I like poems, especially this one. Intricate word play. Love the simple rhythm accompanying the rhyming stanzas. Best thing about poetry: when the basic form is combined with beautiful words, magical things happen.

Cheers for enlightening me with your poetic literature.

WB

Who ever does whatever to this, be it a poem or a song, I hope they read the words and then start creating, yes, the words are strong and right, yes, it has the proper time and story to it, yes it makes a musician want to burst into song (lol), but more important than all of this, it is a poem (song) about someone who wished that they could play/sing the song!!!!!
So if it were to be 'right' in my mind, I hear just a voice speaking the first verse, then a guitar stumbling into play, a second verse half sung with a few instruments popping up insecurely, on to a third verse where the vocal could start to pick up : "My voice a golden baritone" and the music starts to 'gel', etc etc into a beautiful song that comes to the most amazing ironic end that it is what it set out thinking that it wasn't!

Having written this now I seam to remember having read somewhere that it has been collab'd on!
A well, this is then an unbiased judgment.