NOVELIST, LAWYER, MUSICIAN

Aram is the author of four novels, which you can find below. He is a pioneer in the new art of podcasting fiction. After studying writing for the theater with Stephen Sondheim and flamenco guitar with Carlos Montoya, he was a founding member and the lyricist of Ten Wheel Drive, a rock group which was active in the late 60's-early 70's, and produced disco hits for D.C. Larue and Whirlwind in the mid 70's, BBG (before Bee Gees). A graduate of Columbia College and Harvard Law School, he practices law in Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Florida and lives in Wellington, Florida with his wife, two dogs, four cats and three polo ponies.


Tuesday, March 31, 2009

WHY AM I SO EASY TO LEAVE

He asked me
Why am I so easy to leave behind?
Haven't I led the way for you
When we've been blind?
And when you tried to say goodbye
Wasn't I the first to cry?
Tell me
Why am I so easy to leave behind?
Why am I so easy to leave?

Why are you so eager to run away?
Haven't you loved the silences
Of every day
That hung like sunburn in the air
And did I once call you unfair?
Tell me
Why are you so eager to run away?
Why are you so eager to run?

It was you, he said
You made these things
The way they are
I would have wanted
To be so much more
But I love you, you know, so much
That it was worth waiting for

Why am I so easy to leave behind?
Couldn't I be whatever
You still try to find?
Then I turned to him
And let him win
I said "It's I who hasn't been,
And you are not so easy to leave behind
You are not so easy to leave"

Copyright 1973 Aram Schefrin and Michael Zager
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This one, too.

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That one we got paid for. Sort of.