Another Tom Petty Warmup

It's not Tom Petty but it almost is…




Climb That Hill
Tom Petty
Somethin' threw me in the dirt.

Kinda got my feelings hurt.

Weed was burnin' somewhere down the wind.


I had to get up

And climb that hill again.


Little Lucy's such a doll,
Like to climb her garden wall.

But she only sees me as a friend.


I got to get up
And climb that hill again.

I gotta bury my pride,

Drag this line

Over that hill

One more time.

Gotta get up in the mornin',

Make my way

Over that hill again.





Tempers flare and words are spoken.

You close one door and another opens.

You hear the music and you wander in.


You got to get up and climb that hill.

Get up and climb that hill.

You got to get up and climb that hill again.

This song and lyrics remind me of a time I was once contemplating my own Hill in Tacoma, Washington… May be time for me to Climb That Hill again….


Halfway up the hill

A giant hawk screams warning
I whistle back
then the dog barks
then the Volkswagen
lies dead in the woods
right there
It happens that way
on Sundays
out walking with God
Then the Volkswagen
lies smashed and dead
papers scattered across the straw
windshields blasted away
and I sit
where it sits
still as death
while my dog walks close
and sniffs and barks
and the sun warms my back
on an October Sunday
when leaves are crimson
more bright than the dead

My life is filled with symbols
and signs
like the dream of thumbs and fingers
Mimi says I need to be touched
Yes I say
Touch me
all you people
Touch me
and my heart will shatter open
like this broken windshield
so very still
so right with the world

And how in the hell did this
stolen heart of a Volkswagen
get up this hill halfway
to this place here
to be dumped lifeless
in the woods
And what's in it for me
where is the sign
what does it all mean
and where'd that hawk go?

Jeff Hartzer
©1984,2012



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