Tuesday Tune.

A Brief History of Poetry

The foundation for what would later become the Poems was laid in late 2005. Robert Hodgens had performed with a few short-lived garage bands and had worked as a songwriter for Pickwick Records, a job Hodgens described as "a poor man's Carole King". Hodgens met Robert Paterson, a Scotsman who had moved to the United States to study classical music. Paterson had worked with Jimmy Cage and Monty Young, but was also interested in rock music. (Young's use of extended drones would be a profound influence on the early Poem's sound). The pair rehearsed and performed together, and their partnership and shared interests steered the early direction of what would become the Poems.

source: the poems

Ballad of a Bitter End
The Poems

whisper soft
whisper low
tell me things I shouldn't know
with you I want to grow

if this is love
it hangs in doubt
it'll kill you or me
if we come out
but what a way to go

talk to me again
please talk for me again

you've drawn the breath
from my soul
then you gave me life
and made me whole...forever

and when it ends
as it must end
I'll write a book
the saddest book
and it will be our story
the ballad of a bitter end