The Way You Walk

For me to know the way you're feeling we don't even have to talk
I can tell the way you're feeling from the way you walk

When you're feeling sad and sluggish, when you've got the blues
You plod and trudge like you're in a pair of concrete shoes

When you're feeling more relaxed, when your cares all start to fade
That's when you start to saunter and promenade

When you're feeling so proud I see you sucking in your gut,
Hold your head high, stick your chest out, then you start to strut

And when you're feeling aimless, that's when you start to traipse
You meander like a windblown leaf across the landscapes

For me to know how you are feeling we don't even have to talk
I can tell the way you're feeling from the way you walk

by Tom Meltzer ©The Princeton Review

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Cata Means Down

The Greeks invented the catapult
To hurl rocks down upon their foes
The prefix 'cata-' means down in Greek
Its use in other words I'll disclose
In my song, here's how it goes

When a change goes down due to a force that it cannot resist
The thing that caused the change is called a catalyst

Cemeteries down below the ground were first built in ancient Rome
They borrowed 'cata' from the Greeks to call these places catacombs

When a person's in a stupor like he's always on the Chronic
There are some who would describe him as catatonic

Katrina was a cataclysm, a flood as violent as can be
It destroyed New Orleans, that was truly a catastrophe

The Greeks invented the catapult
To hurl rocks down upon their foes
The prefix 'cata-' means down in Greek
Its use in other words now everybody knows

by Tom Meltzer ©The Princeton Review

Auto Means Self

I saw my favorite rock star today
I asked him for an autograph
He said “Yes” but only signed his first name
He only gave me half of his autograph

He told me that he had written a book
Entitled “All About Me”
The story of his life, he wrote it himself
It was his autobiography

Because auto means “self” and that’s just the way it auto be

I asked him how he learned to play guitar
He said, "Now here's actual fact
I taught myself to play the guitar
I am an autodidact"

I took his picture with my camera
I quickly snapped two or three
The camera wound the film all by itself
It wound it automatically

Because auto means "self" and that’s just the way it auto be

by Tom Meltzer ©The Princeton Review