The Dock of the Bay (#1)
Sitting in the morning sun,
I'll be sitting when the evening comes
Watching the ships roll in
Then I watch them roll away again
Yeah! I'm sitting on the dock of the bay
Watching the tide roll away,
Sitting on the dock of the bay, wasting time.
Looks like nothing's going to change
Everything still remains the same.
I can't do what ten people tell me to do
So I guess I'll remain the same.
Left my home in Georgia
Headed for the Frisco Bay.
I have nothing to live for,
Looks like nothing's going to come my way.
So I'm just going to sit on the dock of the bay,
Watching the tide roll away.
Sitting on the dock of the bay, wasting time.
Sitting here, resting my bones
And this loneliness won't leave me alone.
Two thousand miles I roam
Just to make this dock my home.
Now I'm just going to sit on the dock of the bay,
Watching the tide roll away.
Sitting on the dock of the bay, wasting time.
By the Time I Get to Phoenix (#2)
By the time I get to Phoenix she'll be rising.
She'll find the note I left hanging on the door.
She'll laugh when she reads the part that says I'm leaving.
'Cause I've left that girl so many times before.
By the time I make Albuquerque she'll be working.
She'll probably stop at lunch and give me a call.
But she'll just hear that phone keep on ringing,
Off the wall, that's all.
By the time I make Oklahoma she'll be sleeping.
She'll turn softly and call my name out low.
And she'll cry just to think I'd really leave her -
Though time and time I've tried to tell her so,
She just didn't know I would really go.
What seems to be TRUE about the two poems?
Both men ran away from their lovers.
Both were written by two pessimistic poets.
The first one sounds miserable but the other romantic.
The man in the first poem is more sensible than the other.