~ Sliding By ~ {A Song}
Cold gray nights come and go
Hazy memories haunt and bind
Obligations take their toll,
that we ought, leave behind
One moment more, to wait
You say, will not kill me
These dreams, all fade,
of how we use to be
(I find time sliding by
Gears would grind out of my mind
We can't deny one more try
This mountain, we'll climb
before time goes sliding on by)
Tender feelings we have known
rests priceless in my heart
Where forever, we were one
We're often now apart
One moment more, to wait
You think, will not hurt me
While I contemplate
What is this reality
(chorus-amended)
(I find time sliding by
Gears would grind out of my mind
We can try, you and I
This mountain, we'll climb
before time goes sliding on by)
Good things, worth working for
Your love makes me feel light
I want you and nothing more
To hold tightly to me tonight
One moment more, to make
this happen with you and me
Is all it would take
It's all that we need
(chorus)(repeat)
(I find time sliding by
Gears would grind out of my mind
We can't deny one more try
This mountain, we'll climb
before time goes sliding on by)
(bridge-sung low to high)
I find time sliding by
(end line-Lower Tone)
Don't let time go sliding on by.
© 2006 July 30th / Thomas F. Crumpler
Author notes
Just a new song that I post. Here goes. lol
Thank all of you for your Review! 
Tommy
Written August 8th, 2006
What did you think
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Great Job!
Reading again, hey, see what I have to do when you don't write new ones...Read these again my friend, and let me tell ya, it don't bother me one bit.
This piece is amazing, as so many of your writes are bro, peace to you and yours, bro Tim 
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Fantastic lyrics Tommy. Do you also write the melodies yourself? The words are so true to life. Time does slide right passed us so we have to make sure to really take the time for the things that are important...like family, spouses, friends. Beautifully penned and a pleasure to read
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Tommy,
This is a beautiful poem. I loved your wonderful choice of words and your great analogys...just perfect! Great write!
Sarina -
great analogy you use in the grinding of the gears in your mind
in comparison to waiting on time for your next interlude with your dear wife.
magnificent!
Tamara
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Hi Tommy,
This is very beautiful and I'm sure the person it is meant for loves you just the same. I could sense deep love and youthful romance in these lines. Very sweet emotions and it made me smile Thank you for sharing it with me.
Charishma
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Dear Tommy,
I can see you wrote this straight from your heart and I hope your wife appreciates it.
Thankyou for your notes and for reading some of my poetry.
I have sent you an IM separately.
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This is great! I actually started singing the chorus in my own way, which is a new one for me, haven't had a tune going in my head with anything I've read so far. Kimberly G.
I'm wondering in the next to the last line in this stanza, is it supposed to be "it" instead of "I?" Either would work okay, I think, but wasn't sure there and at first thought maybe it was meant to be "it," so thought I'd point it out in case.
Good things, worth working for
Your love makes me feel light
I want you and nothing more
To hold tightly to me tonight
One moment more, to make
it happen with you and me
Is all "IT" would take
It's all that we need
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excellent
I like the message in your lyrics. Too often people just want to give up, throw away a relationship, marraige etc, when all it takes is two people working together to get that magic back.
"Good things, worth working for
Your love makes me feel light
I want you and nothing more
To hold tightly to me tonight
One moment more, to make
it happen with you and me
Is all I would take
It's all that we need"
Great job Tommy!
Ethereal Melody
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a beautiful write with love and intent, you are willing to fight for your relationship as hard as it takes to keep the beautiful thing that you have found. big up to you bro
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I seen lots of lyrics on this site but these are among the best so glad I click here to have the chance to read them write on my friend you have talent....
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Wow this was a great piece. I really liked it. I would love to hear how the melody behind the words goes. But this was an amazing heart-felt piece of writing. Keep up the good work. I LOVE IT!!
Soon to be queen, but for now still the...
Nubian Princess -
good
Nice lyrics, good luck in the songwriting business, it's a tough world out there, peace out, Crackertl82 -
excellent~
Beautifully written and from the heart as well...
Such loving tender lyrics
I love it
Hugs
Susan~~~
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that was awesome
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"Good things,worth working for,your love makes me feel light" is my favourite part of your song!Well written,good hook line,well done Tommy!
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Hi Allen 0826,
Thanks for dropping in, your applause and reply. I appreciate you sharing your time and your kind words. I'll be sure to read of you real soon. I'm glad you liked this writing. Take care and peace to you.
Tommy -
I really enjoyed reading this song of yours!
I hope that you do well with it.
Good luck and keep up the great work here!
Thank you for sharing your talent.
Allen0826 -
Well Loa and Behold, give the lady a cigar! You are right
use- verb habitually do something (use only in the past tense)
Good call G! Thankx!!!
Tommy -
Thank You Gennelle!!!
Oh Gen,
It sure is great from you again. Whenever I get something
I feel is special I like to invite you. I know you are a tirelessly busy person and I appreciate your review. About
use to be? Are you sure it is used to be? I dealt with that issue before and if I'm correct, I think it is use. Maybe
I've got it the other way around. I wish I knew, I really
do. I can check the secret zone? lol OK folks, I do get help from one place.
My new musician friend wants to compose this song so I'm
just singing it. The chorus goes up up up. You take care my friend.
Take some time to breathe. lol Thank you G. It's always an
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Hi there Katie,
Well thank you very much. I appreciate your reaction. I had to give this another tuneup. I'm my own worst critic, but that's good. It really helps when you sing or read aloud a poem or song. This is slow groovin' country or rock song. Yeah, that one moment more stuck with me. lol Anyway, I appreciate your kind visit and I will reciprocate that courtesy. Now, here I go coming your way Peace to you!
Tommy -
Good one, Tommy! Live each moment in the moment, each day as it comes.
Typo: S1, L8 - 'how we used to be'
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Excellent
Hi Tommy, I was able to log back on for 30 min. or so. I read your song. It has such beauty, very heart warming. Is it a waltz or something slower.? I like the ending, I know it will sound beautiful. I wrote a gospel song that I wanted the ending like that with a fade away. I like the way you have worked "one moment more" throughout the song. The last stanza is just beautiful. Keep on writing. -
Thank you again Soulful Woman.
It's good to see you return to this. By and by there is life emerging from this original idea.
Maybe this is that one song that could launch me a new reality?
I don't want to miss out on the wave again. lol
Feel free anytime to review me. Take care. Peace to you.
Tommy -
great
songs are not easy to write. my late husband and i wrote a few together, he the music and me the lyrics. yo have done a great job with the lyrics here; i bet that the music is great as wel! -
Thank you Sunshine Girl
and welcome. I'm singing it right now and that is the greater challenge! The chorus goes way up high!
I'm not a singer but with this song, if I can pull it off, hey anything is possible. I practice my highs with songs like Styx, don't let it end. That's a great voice tuner! It's good of you to visit and reply. Best wishes to you here at ap.
Tommy -
Thank you Mother Angst,
It's good to know fellow songwriters! That is a tough business but I'm very versatile. lol Please feel free anytime to check me out. I appreciate your visit, applause and reply. I'm not a musician, but I'm quite musically inclined. My friend who is a musician wants to join me in the development of this song. So, time will tell I guess. Take care. Peace to you. I will see your work soon. '
Tommy -
I like this alot..You can almost sing it as you read it because the flow is so right on. Great work.
Soulful Woman -
This is really good! i could hear a tune playing in my head as i read the words! This is so beautiful! Hope to hear it on the radio one day and then I can say 'hey i've heard that before the rest of the world' Keep that pen flowing!
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songs are not easy to write. my late husband and i wrote a few together, he the music and me the lyrics. yo have done a great job with the lyrics here; i bet that the music is great as wel! -
Thank you Shelley for your review!
I appreciate that! If you think I qualify, I'll review you too on yours. You see no mistakes? I've worked and worked on this. I'm recording it on a tape player. The chorus is a beautiful melody. Maybe now you might understand why I decline contests? I hope so. When I get the sound down, I'll send it to you. Take good care and thanks again. God bless you.
Tommy -
Hi Tommy. A lovely song. Very nice rhythm. Very good flow and tone. Melodic. Beautiful expression of emotion. I like these lyrics very much. You did a wonderful job with this song of love. Shelley
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Thank you Morningstar,
Glad you approve of this. The song here is a slow grooving moody feeling tune, quite romantic something you dance in
the candlelight by. So yeah, you are correct. I'm sorry to
hear about your husband. When things like that occur, it
really puts a test to who you are and what you believe in
life. Oh your wish will be granted, for I have a midi maker machine that I'm learning to create a small melody for displaying at my site. In fact, you can have a glimpse on
my first experiment. :
geocities.com/tescru/GetWithIt.html
It's my song Get with it with a sample of music so you can
get a feel of how it goes. My musician friend might show how
to do the mpgs. They've got their whole band with files
at their site. Someday I hope to learn that. lol
Anyway, thank you for the visit and reply. Keep your eyes
open if you will for I know someone is seeking me about all
of my lyrics. I hope your nephew is working out his
situation. Just keep showing him you care and he'll listen
to you more. Take care. Peace to you.
Tommy -
Excellant work
Tommy
That was my second husband name before he died. Was married to him for 32 years before he was killed by a tree falling on him when he was bush hogging a friend land. it was haerd on the kids and me and my husband now. The lard needed him then. Abtwat. He play the drums and guitar & the Bongo. I lay the what we use to call the shaker & rattlers and Jingle. I was trying to see and feel the rythmn of the song. It mst me at a tempo of maybe a not so fast beat but at the end maybe slow down. Am I right? I like the lyric. and I wish I could hear it. Do you play anywhere. Jeffery Jame & Alan jackson play some of my words. Jeffery has one of mine he is trying to put in a album call You lay heavy on my mind he is getting one of my freind Linda to sing the part with him. So keep it up. You aer going to the top with each one. Enjoy the lyric.
Thanks
Morningstar Aka Sondra Sue Kelly-Stanford -
Timbro,
My friend, anytime you need anything from me, just im me as to what it is. I'd be delighted to assist you with whatever difficulty you find. When you might want to do a collaboration, I'd love to oblige you in that especially with tributes or devotions. I wish you the best life can bring you. And
I always appreciate the brightness of your visits.
Tommy -
Well thank you Brenda,
I'm pretty good at pc repairs. If you im me what's wrong, I might can help. Is it programming or something else? If it is
dead, just put your hard drive in another body of an older setup. My pc is a 233 old processor with an hp 3600 hd. lol
Hay, whatever is possible. I thought you might enjoy this
song. All of us who lose out on love because of time can relate, you know life, kids, jobs, family, etc etc etc. lol
Good to see you drop by. Thank you for the applause and
your reply. If you ever want my opinion, just im me. Take
care and peace to you.
Tommy -
3 excellents
now how come you say i am not your favorite poet i have just been busy my carpet in my computer room needed pulled out my cat had baby kittens on it. it does not smell so great. i think you are a very good poet i think you are much better than what i write i am kind of shy around other people too many people have said my writes are not so great not here at ap in the class room i think you are now right good if you keep doing so well you will go far just do not give up it took me over 20 years to relearn to write persistent is the key i have a hard time remebering names my computer down so i am using my husband computer he get it when he home till my other get up and running i ripping up carpet and changing things around this is really good i promise i will try harder to read some other stuff do not be shy send me a link i would be delighted to read it. just finshing up pt on my hand things are doing better much love b -
Great Job!
I see ya did some touches here and there, nice, you always do so good with your songs, and how I need some help learning how to write one. Show me your lyrical song making tricks bro!
Thanks again for being such a most valued friend!
Much love to you and yours always, Timothy!
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Dearest Joan,
You are definitely one of the friends I can count on my two
hands. I hope you are here a very long time. I can't leave
allpoetry either. Ever since I found this place my poetry
has flown and I've grown like I never would have known!
I dearly appreciate your encouraging words. I guess you
hold tightly to the best and wish the rest, best in their
own success. lol Oh well, look at me a poet turned
songwriter, It is my plight. I sure miss the many that
did visit me.
I can relate and empathesize to their sadness for leaving
here. I don't post so often as before because of my silent
returns, but that's ok. I use some time to work these songs
into a music composure. It does dampen my spirit often but
I never took defeat lying down.
God bless you Joan. I'll be sure to find your work when
you are posting. I'll get by and see Hugh's poetry too. I
sure wish I could find something real online that would
make good for a business. I guess if I keep searching,
something will turn up. lol
One good thing that did happen is the musician I told you I
through postaroo.com , he want to help me compose this write
into music. He has a band and they play good (I can send you
a tune)... but they need a lyrical writer. Maybe, God
willing, it can be a prosperous endeavor. It would be much
better than I to be a house painter. lol
Money these days is one thing hard to keep up with! But I
have faith with my songs. I've converted part of my own
house for the purpose of recording. I know it's a long
shot but anything is possible is you keep on believing.
My life is extremely busy too, but I'll still take time to
visit you too Joan. You take good care and thank you so much!
Tommy
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Dear Tommy, I'm finding the same thing as you, no one visits like they used to, some have left or stopped writing or passed away, but the ones who used to visit, a lot of them don't comment, but I guess they have lives away from AP and have to move on, so never be afraid that I won't visit you, I'll still be here, I love this site, I've made so many wonderful friends on here I could never leave it.
Hugs Joan
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Dear Tommy, my dear friend, this is wonderful, you really have written from the heart for your lovely lady, It's a wonderful gift to give her. You are such a beautiful soul Tommy I'm happy to be your friend.
Hugs Joan
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Susanne,
Thank you. Yeah, the first rule to survival is adaptation!
lol
I've done changed this song from head to toe almost.
I'm happy with it now (I think). That is if it sings
some easier. I appreciate your visit and your reaction.
With being the poet you are, your approval means a lot!
Your take good care and keep writing. Peace to you friend.
Tommy -
Thank you Timmy,
I came back for a minute to reprise this song. It seems it
was not perfect. I found that out because I'm singing it
on my Karaoke as an anniversary gift to my lady tonight.
Hey I appreciate your visit. Your Dad is a model of a
friend and a gifted poet. I'd say with a big heart as his,
it's his natural ability. It's good to see your visit
again. I hope everything is going great in your life. You
deserve the best in life to be a chip off the old block.
I have high hopes for your future. God bless you. Peace to
you too. Thank you and you keep your spirit here at ap, it's
a good place to be.
Tommy -
This must of been a labor of lyrical love to pen.Well versed,and took a lot of work.Tenacity must be your strong suit.~~Suseann
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Excellent!
I love your works, but I know my dad speaks so highly of ya, and the wonderful heart you share here. Just wanted ya to know, this is an awesome song me thinks. Thanks for your example, and the love you share.
lil Tim
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Thank you Tim,
I appreciate you too Tim. I won't stop seeing
your work or touching base with you. I say since
I've known you, I've not found a better
poet or friend so faithful to our cause. Tim my friend,
people just don't feel things as they should. I should
know for I've been the same way. My pleasure now is in
recording my singing and playing the songs I compose in
private. I'm just another writer who is quick to be
forgotten. I tried to visit every writer who did so
to me because everyone deserves that courtesy. I use
more time in replying to others than I ever get to write
my own. I get more applauses (twice as much) with my
replies than my work! Something feels so wrong. At this
point, I barely care to write again because my life is
not so great. So I choose to cruise a while. I dearly
appreciate your friendship and your concern Tim. Let Love
And Light always lead your way. God bless you Timbro.
You take care and keep writing for they
love you. What's not to? See you in a few.
Tommy
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I Appreciate You!
I just want you to know my dear brother friend, you have what it takes to be the best, and if no-one takes the time to stop and read you as you would like them to...Don't worry about it. Write for the simple reason that God gave you the gift to, and whoever does see your sincere soul such as I, will look up to the heavenly skies and know there is something about that Tommy. You may be the only Bible someone reads, and the way you give of yourself here, yes, it is taxing as a human not to get the responses we want at times, but if only for one, it is worth it. Love it, and give unconditionally. But don't get me wrong, as a friend, I want you to do what you want to, and most of all, need to. But know nothing is in vain when it comes to sharing your heart and songs of tenderness.
Stay strong, I'll be here for ya as much as I can!
Much love brother Tommy, peace, and harmony~
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Well Tim I must say it's too bad more of my so called "friends" are not more like you are. I've posted often and with so many who have me on their lists, so few even bother to say a word about something new that I do. I don't know about you, I wish
you the best here at ap, but I'm getting fed up with the
unwelcomed silence I get so often. This will be my last posting here for a time. I'll catch you later nd thanks again for everything. God bless you.
Tommy
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Wow Tim!
Your spirit overwhelms me! How could I give up with the support
you give me? Thank you so much. I must prove to be worthy someday.
You are one the highest poets here and I am honored and humbled
each and every time you visit and reply.
Morale has not been so great for me to be so skilled with my
pc and to be so broke frequently. My friend, it's a paradox!
When I get you fired up this way, it's got to be worth all
of my efforts! If I get no more applauses or replies on this
write, Tim... I thank you for sharing your highly driven
emotions with me on this song! You got me knowing where I
still belong. You are one friend that has never let me down!
God bless you Tim with every success that is measurable!
Peace to you. You keep posting too.
Tommy
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AWESOME!
Dear Bro Tommy,
I can feel the emotions overflowing through each beat of your heart, and this fits perfectly with so many, how they may feel, and how life and love can go. One heck of a solo bro! Thanks for sharing, you have a way of relating to the cround in your lyrical, poetic ways, and I for one see clearly why I'm a big fan of your works. Always a pleasure to read you, and please never stop your lyrical pen from flowing such profound words. Peace bro, Timothy
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Thank you Soulful Woman for your visit and reply. Glad it's to your liking. I hope nothing is lacking, but you never can tell.
Be well and safe.
Tommy -
This is awesome. Never tried writing in this style but you sure make it look easy...This was such a fun read. Thanks for sharing
Soulful Woman -
Thank you Dennis, (I'm careful now to only post my best)
I'm working on the music now, it's going great! I may not
have much money, but I feel in my element again! I still
see the posibility. We all can relate. It's no sad sobby
song, it is the reality for many. We should always appreciate love! It's good to see you again. Sorry I've been so quiet.
Maybe this post will liven things up. lol I hope I did not
miss your new postings. If I did, im me. You take care,
keep writing and peace to you my friend.
Tommy -
good work
Tommy, I like this one! It's upbeat and positive and has a good rythumn(sp) and flow. I'm sure this set to music would sound great. Keep up the good work, Dennis
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