CHARLIE BROWN

Charlie Brown throws a pitch and falls down
On his back upon the mound
He waits for the booing to die down
And Lucy, when she’s not freaking out
Says she needs a bigger part
Once she gets it then she’ll start
Pigpen, in his private storm of dust
And with blanket is Linus as always he must
Meanwhile, so dapper, so smug
Snoopy spots the Red Baron in the sky high above
“I love mankind,” he says in the middle of the night
“It’s people that I cannot stand”

Fly a kite, kick a football, or win
His confidence is paper thin
Success is a place he’s never been
You may win a few, but you lose a lot more
The Great Pumpkin once told him so
One man’s ceiling is another’s floor
What might have been, it may never come
But how do you know that when you are so young?
Again and again, with paper and pen
Turning puppies to pilots and then back again
”I dread only one day at a time,” says Charlie Brown
“I dread only one day at a time”
Charlie Brown

A Song Can Tell A Story

When words leave off, music begins.

CHARLIE BROWN