Songs & Poems

Songs and Poems

Just a few of my lyrics and songs.

Beauty

Words and music by Noel Olken

Athens, Greece March 6, 1982

There are those who go looking for beauty, With their eyes heaven bound they stare

And their feet so heavy with journey, Crush the roses they didn’t see were there

Chorus:

There are those who go looking for one thing, And another thing is what they get

There are those who go looking for truth, my love, With their eyes heaven bound they stare

And their feet so heavy with paradox, Crush the truth they didn’t see was there

Repeat Chorus:

There are those who go looking for love, my love, With their eyes heaven bound they stare

And their feet so weary with passion, Crush the love they didn’t see was there.

Repeat Chorus:

Hollywood and Vine

Everything is fine down at Hollywood and Vine

Walk on the sidewalk with the stars you don’t know who most of them are.

Everything is fine down at Hollywood and Vine

Hear those Kodaks clicking away oh those tourists what they say

But oh those tourists what they pay!

Everything is fine down at Hollywood and Vine

Everybody’s got what they’re into and everybody’s into what they got

Walk on the sidewalk with the stars you don’t know who most of them

You only know who some of them you only know who a few of them are.

On The Road

words and music by Noel Olken

Across the ocean, across the sea

How far across, can across really be

There’s a woman there, who’s waiting for me

She sends me yellow flowers all the way from Italy

Verona, Verona, are you gentlemen from Verona?

If you are, please find her there

Tell her that I’m coming over.

The City

Words and music by Noel Olken

The city wakes

Like a child screams

Like a one-legged man

With a two legged dream

The city stretches

Her muscles tight

And kisses away

The sleep of night

She lies back down

For a few more winks

But the blind man screams

And the deaf man blinks.

I was just another sleeper my alarm clock woke

From the protection of forty winks

And it’s hard to get my body

out of bed in the morning

When my mind is telling me

it just isn’t worth it

Well you can’t judge a man

by the job that he does

but how he does it, and how he thinks.

Practicing what you preach is a hard thing to do

When the coffee you drink is stronger than you.

Where I’m Gonna Go

I’m living in a world I can’t understand

I have a job, it’s very taxing

And I’m sharing this room, with someone I don’t know

And I’m wondering, where I’m gonna go.

I’m standing in a valley, in a sea of blue and green

And the mountains that surround me, are calm and serene

I know that I must climb one, but which one I can’t tell

Oh, the climbing will be easy, it’s the deciding which one that’s hell.

So I wait for the right time, when the right wind blows,

And I’m wondering, where I’m gonna go.

I’m standing on the highway, which to me are so amazing

Cause I’ve traveled them and I’ve loved them, these arteries of the country

I’ve baked in the sun, and froze in the rain

Slept on your shoulders and woken with pain,

But I would do it all again you know,

And soon, soon there will be snow,

And I’m wondering, where I’m gonna go.

I’m sitting in a room with purple candles burning

The walls have tear drop windows, a chandelier is turning

How strange that this museum is devoted to my past

With out having paid the price I should have paid

As the walls melt away and the teardrops flow like blood

I find myself up to my knees in mud

I’m sinking, but very, very slow,

And I’m wondering, where I’m gonna go.

I’m living in a world I can’t understand

I have a job, it’s very taxing

And I’m sharing this room, with someone I don’t know

And I’m wondering, where I’m gonna go.

The San Francisco

Tenderloin Blues

words and music

What Am I
Doing Here

words and music

It’s Okay

words and music

I Don’t Want To

See You Anymore

words and music

Passion

words and music

Silent Poets

words and music