Drummer

Never tell a drummer that he's out of time

Metric Modulations and Polyrhythms

A drummer for many a year

Changes in metre I hear them

But my feet and my wrists can't I fear

I still feel the rhythm flow through me

Though my body won’t dance to the beat

Heart pumping faster

Breathing much harder

To master being on the drum seat

As we get older

We have to get over

The things we can no longer do

Even now they tell me

'You should play again'

'Must play again'

'Tell us that's what you will do'

But lo and behold

I'm more rocket and rolls

Than rock and roll, now

Sad but true!

Mike O’Leary September 2011