RUNDOWN BATTERY BLUES



I've got those rundown battery
Those rundown battery blues,
I know your love for me
Has surely rundown too.

You have to do your own thing
And I'm always left alone,
I look for you, babe
But you're never here,
You're off having fun
Somewhere on your own.

If I'm on the beach
Then you're in the park,
You're always out of reach
And I'm in the dark.
You loved me once
And I love you still,
But your cheating heart
Was honed to kill.

You're on the sand
When I'm out to sea,
You're out of hand
So very cold to me.
You're on the run
I'm standing still,
I can't match your pace
And I never will.

THE END
© Copyright 2021, Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

About this poem

Inspired by a late 1960s or early 1970s Eveready Battery Ad.

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Written on 1976

Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on September 02, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme AXAX XBXXCB DEDEXFXF GAGACFXF XXX
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 633
Words 129
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 6, 8, 8, 3

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