The aim of error is
That we may learn
Never again to be
The same person
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Little Paul McAvoy
Little Paul McAvoy
Was a very jocund boy
He wanted to be a writer
Instead became a fighter
There he finds no joy
…
Little Anne Maybelline
Wanted to be a beauty queen
But she never did pursue
What she always wished to do
Merely now a working machine
Hurry Up, 2019
Hurry up, Twenty Nineteen
Don’t you make me wait
Eighteen was terrible
I need to change my fate
I’ve made some resolutions
I’ve drawn a proper list
There would be no changes
There would be no twist
I’d like to quit my drinkin’
Get off the damned cigar
Learn a brand new hobby
Buy my favourite car
I wanna write a book
Learn to play the guitar
Meet Trump, Modi, Merkel
The Queen and the Tsar
So come on Twenty Nineteen
Come on show your face
I hope that you’d be better
Eighteen was a disgrace
I’d like to be a bit smarter
A bit wiser than before
But not before I see you
Walk in through that door
Repetition
Some people like to repeat themselves
Repeat themselves
Repeat themselves
Some people like to repeat themselves
But I am not one of them
…
They speak the same words all the time
All the time
All the time
They speak the same words all the time
But I am not one of them
…
They say what’s said again and again
Again and again
Again and again
They say what’s said again and again
But I am not one of them
…
I don’t like to repeat myself
Repeat myself
Repeat myself
I don’t like to repeat myself
But you just don’t understand
On December 26th
I badly wanted a Christmas gift
On December 26th, December 26th
I badly wanted a Christmas gift
But I got nothing at all
…
Santa must have lost his way
Lost his way, lost his way
Santa must have lost his way
He didn’t even call
…
All my friends they got a gift
They got a gift, they got a gift
All my friends they got a gift
From Jane to Steve and Paul
…
I am just a lonely boy
With no toy, with no toy
I am just a lonely boy
See my tears they fall
…
Daddy gave a gift yesterday
Yesterday, yesterday
Mommy gifted me yesterday
Is Christmas not today?
How Far Off Is Christmas?
How far off is Christmas?
Has it come and missed us?
I’ve been a good boy all year
When will Santa finally appear?
I hope he brings all that I asked for
Without missing anything like before
I might stay up all night
Just so that I don’t miss his sight
And when the man I finally see
Coming down our chimney
In a corner I will wait
To see if he’s got my rollerskates
When he’s laid all the gifts silently
Around the decorated christmas tree
I will sneak inside his sleigh
Off I’ll go the north way
To visit his toy-making factory
And I’ll go on a shopping spree
To pick the gifts that I
Haven’t learned to spell at five
The Ungrateful Girl
I wrote a sweet song
For a girl I loved strong
But she just didn’t like it at all
The very next day
She called me up to say
That we had just hit a wall
…
But before I could speak
What I wanted to speak
She just hung up the phone
It was hard to forget
How she had loved me once yet
She had me left me now all alone
…
The wind was quite strong
I had to move on
Get over the ungrateful girl
So I took all of my work
Prayed for a little luck
Showed my poems to the world
…
I didn’t believe it a bit
My poems were a hit
Publishers kept calling all the time
Money tapped on the door
Fame lay on the floor
Everyone loved to hear my rhymes
…
Then one sunny day
My girl called up to say
She was sorry for what she had done
She began to weep and cry
And asked for one try
Well I just hung up the phone
