====================

Long Road to Nowhere

====================


You think you think

You hate me, you hate you

And It would please me now, too

To hate you, hate you

Make it easy now to

Hate you, hate you

We've both trodded that road

The long road to nowhere

Cos it won't, it won't work

I saw it, I show it,

You know you wanna know it.


And here it is:

Your beautiful poetry,

It is nothing til you see,

The truth behind your lies.

And what a shoddy disguise,

The blood staining your eyes.


Your eyes

Your eyes


I can see you.

So is it true,

That you can't see me.


You can,

but do you? Understand?

When I say a man is a man.


And take my hand.


Can you hear me?

Do you hear me?


And a man is man.

No word or deed can,

Confuse what I understand,

Because I have a real plan.



Did you go anywhere,

Coz I'm still standing here.

Though we took great care,

Did we take the long road to nowhere


My Love

=======


A friend you'll always have

A friend always in me

When you're in good or bad weather, in need, or whenever

A friend indeed I will be


For my love is here for everyone

My friendship completely free

No contracts, gimmicks, or strings attached

Just an everlasting guarantee


And all that I show of all that I have

No skin can feel, no eye can see

For not touch nor taste, sight, scent, or sound

Can crack my love's solved mystery


Never and Always

================


I will always be right here with you

Through Never and Always

When you lose and when you win

Through the thick and through the thin

When in courage and in fear

With your smile and in your tear

Throughout both day and night

And in darkness and in light

Through Never and Always

Beyond the end of my days


Old Medley

==========


Beauty has been misplaced

It was never erased

It will be ever strong

Reunited face to face


Never too old to live

Never too young to die

When you gonna break on through

Stuck here however you try


Gotta get inside

Tear away the blinds

Wanna see the sun

Cos they sold it

You couldn't hold it


I'm just biding time

To bring together my rhyme


The Boy

=======


born and raised

never the same twice

this child tased

with rolls of loaded dice

a grown mind crazed

never naughty nor nice

his eyes glazed

with a layer of thin ice


Here's the boy

Told not to question

His mind to headway

Into a cliche


the sky it snowed

and from it came hail

til his eyes showed

nothing at all


Here's the boy

Beat into attention

His face wiped clean

Of childish gleam


a warm heart

But cold skin

save the lost boy

Before he breaks again


Here's the boy

Starved into dissolusion

And the thought

Of love not taught


Hold On (Take You For A Ride)

=============================


You're simply flowing

Ain't ever knowing

never stopping

always going


Your mind can't get a grip,

but you can't let go

DOn't wanna slip

But you wanna let it flow



You ain't got control,

coz it does you.

And when it breaks the limit,

take ya to the other side,

Ya better hold on,

Gonna take ya for a ride


Lonesome A Long Time

====================


Im slowing down to a crawl

Even though I wanna run

Want to run with you all

I'm back here feeling alone

I've been here a long time now

Waiting all day for tomorrow

Following a dream that waits for me

On a road that's always going

Felt lonesome a long time

And the remedy is at my fingertips

And it won't be the flirt that finds me

For I see none with my eyes

All of those and none of them

Are viewed with these eyes of mine

And knowing of me will never be ours

Until knowing knows itself

When these verse are of your voice

And of a choir are made these rhyme

I've been lonesome for as long as I know

A barren soul houses us all

Though the hue of my vision is distorted

I long for when I meet you outside

This shell can be travelled through

But be wary of what is your method

Gentleness will only do

What we want in the beginning and after

So lonesome for a long time no more


Fury

====


It's a fury so unkind

It burns the skin outside

It nearly blows my mind (alt.) It always blows my mind (alt.) I nearly lose my mind


And then we can't do this nor that

The whole thing's out of whack

So you just follow the pack


Wonder when it's gonna turn around

And bring the cycle down

Until you, too, breakdown

(alt.)

Wonder how many more of your breakdowns

Will bring the cycle down

How will it turn around


While you're eating with those you love at home

Put up dividing line to see in monochrome

Let all the nameless children go starving

While your problems we go fruitlessly solving


Why can't ya be left alone

To run to your safety zone

That I just couldn't condone

Cuz your world still ain't a happy home


You're not forced to live under a blinding veil

And closing your eyes makes you mind go stale

Open your eyes


Elders

======


Walk down the road

Or stay out of the way

It's the credo

Of many youth today

While the elders

Betroth you to fate

You fall closer

To marriage with hate

(alt.

If the elders

Marry you to fate

You fall closer

To betrothment with hate)

If you don't make them you equals

They will make you theirs

And the future will doubleback

Give you their destiny of tears


Verse Medley

============


I need you for that gentle heart

I have never touched a gentle soul

And I long for it, ever always

My path was mislead from the start


Anyone who writes to hide what he is writing is foolish.


Waiting for that something to return

It's a longing for which you always yearn


Carrying weight on your shoulder

While your vision is in smoulder

Where do you go, go from here


Don't love the place I am

Can't love the place I go

My heart beats high rpm

Revolution my soul must undergo

Have sins which i must acquit

I've got a gun, just haven't bought it

Can you shoot me now

I need to be alive

Posters are covering my walls

they don't keep company at all

Can you tell me how

And when you'll arrive

(alt.

But I can't allow

Allow you to arrive)

Lethargic in my room

Lay me down to sleep

Mummified and entombed

Give a god my soul to keep

Now from what I lost

None of you shall reap


When my body lies bandaged

I cannot make my music

None of it will flow

Out from my middle soul


A substitute I place for the skill

So my voice will never go flat


I wanna wipe out penury

Clean off the destitute


When i held her

I was scared to death

I, a frightened dancer

My mind had left


A light blue sheel, forms around me

Leaving me lonely on a Saturday night

You play the foolhardy at the jester's party

I'm suffocating, my jaw getting tight

And you like it

You think you like it


When will hope pass go again

It always seems to be going bankrupt

I'll still deposit my soul

For its life to be kept up


Look deep with your soul

Don't lose sight of the goal

Hold the road up to the sky

And you will learn to fly


Blown away by a worshipper

With a gun cocked and loaded

A bullet blesses by Him Self

And the blood of his Brother


I let the bitterness blow away

In the chilled wind where it belongs


Feed the child

Or he'll go blind

Brains go wild

With no hope to find


Lustful desire put a crimson veil over eyes

Heir to the passions of flesh

Wild thoughts fly to her breast

Of urgency of soul I must press

(alt.

Though desire of your soul I profess)

Yet to your flesh i stray no less


Another Time

============


I can't give you what I feel

I only hope you already see

If you don't fall in love with my rhyme

My vision is for it another time


Am I alone in mindless thought

Waiting for these glimpses that I've got

Of the things that make us sister - o say, brother!

When time be still and join together


What I hold within my heart

I hope of you it is a part

And if you don't see it in my rhyme...

Perhaps once again some other time


I'm dreaming always of new homes for us

tho'Been told not to care so much I know I must

don't ever want to feel comfortable

Just give myself everyhow so all be full


While my thoughts churn beneath this dome

I hope I'm not dreaming alone

And if we don't see behind our rhyme

I hope for it another time


I said this now but would I did not

Would I rot...

Waiting for these glimpses that I've got

Of the things that make us sister (and) - o say, brother!

When time be still, yea do ya say, o see, we join together


What I can't give of what I feel

I only hope you already see

And if you don't love my rhyme

My hope is for it another time


I am not mocking

m'only walking

If you don't walk this time last

I wait for you at the next pass


We are not mocking

We're only walking

If you don't walk with us

We'll wait for again our paths to cross


Little Girl

===========


If you look from whence it came

Everything makes sense again

Everywhere is truth, truth is all

Without faith you have no footfall


I look for the soul

Of your little girl heart

Put your chaos at ease

Remember you at the start


No matter your years

Always a little girl inside

You learned new fear

And became scared not to hide

When will you crack your shell

Be what you can't fight

I'm not the only one you can tell


You live down low but you dream in the sky

You've got the wings to carry you high

I hope to fly with you, someday to come

When O grow wings to, we'll all fly

I'll watch you everytime you're in flight

When I grow wings too, we'll set this earth right


The Enigmatic Me

================


Capture the flame

Dowse the rain

I am the wandering

Yet determined man

I see the water

Spill over your sides

I'm here to catch all

And bring it back again


Clearly ambiguous

My path always curves

It doesn't hinder me

Cos so does yours

Always on call

To unsolve any mystery

But I'm here to help all

The enigmatic me


Where I meet those who roam

I'm bound to stay awhile

How my wandering life goes

Wonder if I should wonder why


I am the bird of passage

I'm looking for a progression

In my form of expression

I can see my passion

I follow with aggression

Following the procession

Loving is my suppression

I don't rhyme with discretion

Wanna learn this a lesson

Til we can see the sun

Want the voyage to be won


Clearly ambiguous

My path always curves

It doesn't hinder me

Cos so does yours

Always on call

To unsolve any mystery

But I'm here to help all

The enigmatic me


They want a pacification

Of your participation

We bring em retaliation

But we ain't no sensations


Perfect Verse

=============


I perform for you

Hope you enjoy it

At home I am at night

If you I wasn't here for it


I'm looking for the perfect verse

But my tongue seems to be getting worse

Lyrics night and day

It's my work and my play

But I just can't seem to find the perfect verse


No matter what I make

There's always one more thing to say

Maybe a laugh you'll enjoy

What tone shall I employ

So I won't have any more things to say


Seems I will write no flawless rhyme

It can be ruined by myself anytime

The journey is destiny in itself

My incomplete rhymes collect dust on a shelf

And myself can ruin anytime


Charge of Quarters

==================


I am the charge of quarters

Making order while sons sleep

Ousting the old malicious warden

Who would not allow us to grow the tree


Gentleness will let it breathe

Pushing the head to ground will suffocate it

It must grow into its green

Else make its effort jaded


Idea

====


An ocean presented to my heart

On land my blood rushes very wishful

The breaking of wave starts out far

And my voice for that rupture remains wistful


You draw a line, next to mine

On the board of irrelevancy

And your word

I can find

To always be contradictory


Let's bring it together

We can always change its weather

I'm gonna drag it wherever

Huge idea's light as a feather


The Child

=========


I am a child

Until you snide

And push away instead

Make my jaw tight

To paint what you've read


I really tried

You stayed outside

Took now into kneeling

Make my hands hide

Those gentle feelings

(alt.

Now into kneeling

Given to concealin

I really tried

Make those gentle feelings

Outside I hide)


White Hope

==========


That girl is walking pretty

In the temple of my city

And I worship that famous grin

Wherewithal she will let us in

She is the last white hope

In this league of misanthrope


Coming of Age

=============


I stand before the hall of the sage

Waiting for this subtle coming of age

But I can't walk inside the door of this

For the passage spoken of does not exist


I run down the aisle with ivory column

They're stolen from you and I by that golem

We can't find him in the abyss

I ask from you to provide him liss


And your thievery is not a sin

We all must give our wages to win

I climb the stair in search of higher ground

But the plane I find is not much profound


While the grown ones cry and work and toil

I see none of us has grown at all

For all the coming of age we surely have missed

I can see clearly now it does not exist

... For the passage spoken of does not exist.


Need Another

============


My fury's faded

Won't be til it is aided

I need to be soothed

To be serenaded

Pay at the booth

So I can gain it


I go to reach out

For your you mind, mine is in a clout

What I don't get from myself

I get from you

But the things that you sell

They just won't do


Empty, so empty without another

Reachin in the pot seems such a bother

Need to work it it to mold the wonder

I NEED AN-OTHER


Red Tree

========


Live it all simple

Mind makes it large

And your workings will baffle

All without your charge


It was my obsession

Won't relearn its lesson

I wish I could stay

But it went away


Forward I still go

Laughing much so

Outside I am though

Try not to cry

I must go inside


Following the flow

Beauty's what I will show

This branch will grow

To where I won't know


It's maze I uproot

To share its fruit

Play with these toys

To strenghten the soil


And I vied

Move to the other side

The fence I won't hide

I tear down my pride


Game Feed

=========


My dad brought me to a game feed once

Where you can eat whatever meat you like

The tables filled with the variety of life

Where not a morsel was put to waste


He showed me many things

Never being too late

Pitching to the plate

On my own I try to sing

My music from him originates

Always tried to educate

My coming of age awaits

Still wait for my first date


In the Night

============


In the night

Friends drown away in the night

All good things have hidden from sight

I'm lonely til the sun brings me daylight


Chorus:

No friends in the night

Friends gone in the light

Like the last of twilight

Please, will you be alright


Show me the sun

I appreciate this sun

Some don't ever see the sun

We'll have to show them the sun


Chorus:

No friends in the night

Friends gone in the light

Like the last of twilight

Please, will you be alright


Moon in the night

Effervescent satellite

In company of starlight

Moon, moon shining bright

Its light protects at midnight

In company of starlight

Whets my appetite

Sun and I reunite


Chorus:

No friends in the night

Friends gone in the light

Like the last of twilight

Please, will you be alright


Marion's Scar

=============


Charlie walked up to Marion's door

With some flowers he bought many hours before

He rang the doorbell staring down at the floor

Really wanted to know Marion some more


They went to the show on what you'd call a date

Charlie didn't want to leave what happened to fate

He turned to Marion said 'Do we have to wait?'

Both got lonely pains we need to alleviate


During the show they made love in the car

Marion pulled away, couldn't take it that far

Their love broke like a string on a guitar

Charlie brought Marion home, left her with a scar


Chorus:

Charlie tells his friends 'Now, watch what you do,

'It'll stain your thoughts like barb-wire tattoo,

'And once her heart breaks then it'll be through,

If you were me then you'd know that it's true


Marion broke down in her room, guess they had went to fast

And Charlie wished he could go change the past

They both decided nothin between em could last

The bets had been placed, the die had been cast


Chorus:

Charlie tells his friends 'Now, watch what you do,

'It'll stain your thoughts like barb-wire tattoo,

'And once her heart breaks then it'll be through,

If you were me then you'd know that it's true


Ten years later Charlie remembers that day

The regret burns his mind, just won't go away

Every night before bed on the stars he prays

For if they ever remet that he'd know what to say


On a foggy afternoon he was returning to his den

Charlie bumped into the same Marion again

HIs mind raced, How could he make amends?

'Do we have to wait this time before we become friends'


Play With Me Games

==================


Please play with me a game

Where rules never stay the same

It's neither monopoly

Or silly parchese

I'm no good ith strategy

Trivial pursuit or jeopardy

Perhaps some wordplay with Taboo

Is that what you'd like to do?

No, you say. That's not the one

How about some Twenty-One


Please Play with me a game

Where rules never stay the same


Is D&D more your forte?

What games do you like to play?

Maybe a classic game of chess

I've got a friends who play the best

Is that a poker face you've got

At five card stud I've played a lot

My favorite of all time, is Life, I say

Coz rules don't matter once you learn how to play


Maybe that's the one we're looking for

One games not enough tho, let's play some more

For life's impossible with one set of rules

So let's use them not as walls but as tools


That Marley Spirit

==================


When industrial revolution

Is without a viable solution

When mass production

Is perverted into mass destruction

When food only feeds the wealthy

And the hungry never get healthy

And when the cure doesn't heal

To tyranny and terror the poor ones kneel

History always full of Jesus

Who of our sins they all relieved us

Where did they go to now

We killed them all but how


While you bicker where dividing lines go

Placing them all around to and fro

They don't ever help me know, though

Through them I will always go


I guarantee you'll still be bitchin

If you beat all the competition

With Rivalry your only mission

To Number Zero, your ambition

I know for truth that you be wishin

I'll try to find some if you want to listen

I wanna help us in our condition

Let's show each other some of what-your-missin



A noun too flawed to conceive

You know that you'll never retrieve

The thing that you call your vengeance

In only love I believe

And I truly deplore

Those sad ones who wouldn't die for

The love of their descendants

Don't succumb to their presence

In only love I believe


Impressions of political Nuisance

=================================


These are some impressions of politic nuisance

To raw for for mass production to put them to uses

But the Boss I follow with a confident smile

Sum good the only virtue on which I rely


I watched the television

Smart bombs of stupidity

Help children die with precision

Faces burned with lividity


Labrador

========


This fine Nation

Military misplacin

Where goin to war

For the violence whores

Through the education

We seek peace evermore

We won't stop our demonstrations

Til killin's last cessation

No room for argumentation


I'll be time's biographer

Twenty-first century troubadour

For harmony to bond us to the core

And please listen to my labrador


Ya gotta mix it up

To fix it up

Til Water in every cup

The fever will erupt


The Comfortable Zone

====================


At the comfortable zone where I am not not alone

I really do abhor

I neeed to go insane, I'd like to complain

Rationality is a bore


Martyrless Religion

====================


Rushin to a gap in the system

They exist everywhere, but you don't know why you missed them

The word I give only you hope can christen

As a prophecy in my martyrless religion


As I don't believe the existance of a system

In black and white this spark has its baptism

Our shared eyes experience our entwined vision

And all remnants of light will still bleed through the schism

As a prophecy in my martyrless religion


Memorial

========


All I see is little white names on a monstrous black background

Ominous memorials dominate our little lost town

Just another wall to help us drown more of our sorrows down

Still we never learn from these walls or our brothers in the ground


Our Mind

========


The writing flows to where I want it to be

Chopin in the background brings cinematic quality

But my words don't grow if you don't pass their test

My pen makes mind better, but you make it best


Won't be free till we aren't seen as others

Tear up all the walls, raze all the cover

Together, we gotta open up so nothing true can hide

We'll deconstruct all barriers and see into all other sides


Drugdealin'

===========


You listen

but you can't hear me

What your missin'

Is the reason

you fear me

I was only wishin'

The message was clear to see

But in a voiceless prison

I am here to be


Low ceiling

My shoulders healing

Won't be concealin'

The things we're feelin'

It's truth I'm drug dealin

Truth is the drug I'm dealin


What is my meanin

MY voice is obscenin'

Our wounds I'm cleanin

Hope is still gleamin'

Cuz it's truth I'm drugdealin'

And it's got an addictive feelin'


Too hot for a jacket

YOur skin, the heat will crack it

We're livin' in the losin bracket

If you're dealin truth, we'll back it


I provide the sound

You provide the feelin'

Tokin' all around

Cos it's truth I'm drugdealin'


Frontman

========

Don't replace me

Until you come and face me

You can't erase me

So where you gonna place me

You may distaste me

Wanna catch up, your gonna hafta chase me


Chorus:

I am the frontman

In a rockin' band

Don't ever get me banned

Gonna rock you to the end


The time is rip in bloom

Awakening so rude

Blesses with a perfected attitude

Gonna try to sing in tune

Hit you harder than a Japanese typhoon

I'm a badass rock N roll tycoon


Johnny's Walk

=============


When Johny's walkin home from workin

He got beat up, they broke his shoulder

Thrashed him, smashed him like a boulder

Johnny refused to let his heart grow colder

The words to his assailents as told, were:


"Why's lookin for trouble

Seem to be such a hot sell?

You know, we gotta find out

You can't just shut your mind out


'There is no wrong or right

For everything you fight

Blame ain't got no warrant

When you don't got nothing to want


'I truly understand

Why you give such use to your hands'


And in their hearts they felt

His words squeeze like a tight belt


'Whenever a fist from you is dealt

Only on you shall be the welt'


Kiss

====

When you gonna come down

Things are gonna turn around

Birds who fly, will never die

What's in the sky will come to ground


Chorus:

So many chances we have missed

In want of the everlasting kiss

But in friendly guise we follow Judas

And our proclaimed love becomes a death wish


I'm feeling lonely

I wanna turn the tide

With a whistle and a wink

You know I really tried

So have another drink

Cuz if you think, your mind will be defied


Chorus:

So many chances we have missed

In want of the everlasting kiss

But in friendly guise we follow Judas

And our proclaimed love becomes a death wish


Living and Dying, (Inside and Outside the Smoulder)

===================================================


Violence is the voice of a dead man

Fear of "early" death is what he can't stand

Proves his right with a terrified might

But the crimson smoke, it hinders his sight


Beyond the fog, dying behind the cloud

Lives the destitute child who cannot make sound

Being not able to prevent the attack

Learns to grow up by shooting death back


Chorus:

Children burn as bloody embers

Torn from all their family members

One more fire from their memoirs

In the burning sun of their December

But I stand here just a rock N roller

Living on the outside of the smoulder


Hear the woman scream at sugar-coated shrapnel

To send back their little lost boys killed so frail

Who play man-games with big arms and broad shoulders

And deaf ears and small eye slits to be blind to this smoulder


Bridge:

Those of us will always be a disgrace

Where revenge and apathy for it are commonplace

And with violent ways to love we efface

Unless a search for true solutions we embrace

We must retrace back to our birthplace

We all have the same face, we are of only one race


Chorus:

Children burn as bloody embers

Torn from all their family members

One more fire from their memoirs

In the burning sun of their December

But I stand here just a rock N roller

Living on the outside of the smoulder


Small Band

==========


Chorus:

Throughout history

See the one small band

With you-and-me-like man

Cleanse away penury

And truly change the land


To the small audience

I share my joke

Hoping from these fine folk

A laugh hardy and loud

And they rise above their silence

This small yet fine crowd


Chorus:

Throughout history

See the one small band

With you-and-me-like man

Cleanse away penury

And truly change the land


A small black race

Black and blue in the face

Rose up above the silence

Practising they preach through nonviolence

A small black race

Tryin to find their place

WIped clean their despondence

A brotherhood in emergence


Chorus:

Throughout history

See the one small band

With you-and-me-like man

Cleanse away penury

And truly change the land


The Beast

=========


Standin at the post office

Mailin letters to a priest

Of every man consists

In their soul a vicious beast

Its life always persists

Its existence never ceased


Man ordained by God

Is the thing I understand

His only true job's

To be an ordinary man

Preachin what he practise

To show to all the land

Of you I beseech

To be doin what you can


Dance and Sing

==============


I know you're missing

The sweet romance

But there are those

Without that chance

Until they get the chance

The chance like you to dance

I can't afford

To be caught in its trance


My throat is hoarse

But some people can't sing

And they've survived in places

You've never dreamed to have been

And to their children

They have no food to be feeding

I trust there is something

You'll can contribute to my meaning


Dying on the Floor

==================


My friendship

I gave it all

But no one took it

It lies

dying on the floor


Monologue Across the Room

=========================


We're sitting in the same room

Yet apart, we sit alone

Never listen to the same music

Say we come from different homes

And 'I'm sick of our distances'

I sigh with a pained groan


Chorus:

'Our eyes remain so tearful

And our hearts pump so fearful

So our lives remain so dull

And our minds always feeling less than whole

And feeling that we'll lose control

If we don't find the longing in our soul


'We put up fake walls

Only our eyes can see

And I can now see

Part of the blames goes on me

It's our own faults

We don't live in harmony


'I've just realized

That these walls aren't there

And I'll need your help

To really care

To prove these walls

Don't exist anywhere


Chorus:

'Our eyes remain so tearful

And our hearts pump so fearful

So our lives remain so dull

And our minds always feeling less than whole

And feeling that we'll lose control

If we don't find the longing in our soul


'I Don't wanna be alone

Don't wanna be alone anymore

On my radio

I hear these words

"I'll let you in my dream

If I can be in yours" '


My Prime

========


I wanna live up

Gotta lot to live up to

I'll Give up

Give it to you


World carry me on your ocean

Pray for me I can handle the motion

Spinning around in the infinite loop

Get lost in the passion, but stay with the group


I wanna live up (Got to find... my... my...)

Gotta lot to live up to (Want to find... my... my...)

I'll Give up (find... my time)

Give it to you (find... my time)

My time to hold on

Time to let go

Time to move on

Time, will it show?


The wheels on this bus go round & round

Run me over and pin me to the ground

Hit the brakes and turn the radio on

Keep the music down and pay attention to the song


I wanna live up (Got to find... my... my...)

Gotta lot to live up to (Want to find... my... my...)

I'll Give up (find... my time)

Give it to you (find... my time)

My time to hold on

Time to let go

Time to move on

Time, will it slow?


Graspin for mind

Reaching at air

Sweat pouring out

As I clutch my chair


I wanna live up

Lot to live up to

Give up

Give it to you...


...I'll give up

And give it to you


Lonesome A Long Time (pt. 2)

============================


So many times you've passed by

Not a one have I ever said hi

But I still love you so

Even though I don't know

My soul has been made debauched

For my thought is full of raunch

But I still love you so

Though to you I won't go

Very deep inside

The catacomes of my mind

I would be your ally

Though the feeling I hide

I want you to be mine

And I will be yours

And together, us will be all

So with the world we can triumph

I could drown your soul in spirit so deep

And it would glide through the depths

Al the treasure of this world it will reap


Same Game

=========


Your heads tucked down in shame

You're livin large and lame

When the game you play's the same

With just more money to your name


Head spinning round & round

Shrinkin back from every sound

Sinking deep into the ground

No wonder your train's headin outbound


Sound of Lost Year

==================


The sweetest sounds lay upon my ear

I bask in the memory that they bring

Immersed in a warm blanket of lost year

Music of friends, drenched in beautiful things


The View

========


I can't stay here, girl

I'm goin away

Places I've gotta go

Won't be back til a better day


I give my life to you

But I can't here

And I do enjoy the view

But I do not the fear


I don't wanna lose myself

Even though I lost my mind

So put my memory on the shelf

To dust off some other time


Beautiful Blue

==============


The tranquil ocean

In your eyes

Begins to rage

Yet Their gentle waves

That never die

Are beyond age


Beautiful blue

Show me hope

Beautiful blue

Show me a way

Beautiful blue

I see something true

In your

Beautiful blue


Shimmering crystal

Sees good fortune

In every palm

She makes the day

Makes the windy sky

Seem Calm


Beautiful blue

Shine out your light

Beautiful blue

Teach me some more

Beautiful blue

Help me be true

And never lose view

Of your

Beautiful Blue


"You have such beautiful eyes"

"Oh, they're just a shell distorting what's inside"


Normal Conversation

===================


You don't know what I'm saying

I don't either

Got lots of nothing to say

I think I need a breather


Yell, holler, whistle, whine

Scream and shout

Yea, that's the way I wrote the song

Doesn't mean I know what it's about


Maybe we'd get somewhere

If I just died

Sure feels like it's the only thing

I haven't tried


It's all part of another

Normal conversation

Free of worries, free of troubles,

Free of frustrations


Please listen to what I say

But don't take my word for it

Everything I've said and done

Just more meaningless shit


All my thoughts bubbling over

While I pout

Millions upon millions of ways in

Only one way out


I know we're both troubling

And I know you care

But we're both victimizing, criticizin

Everywhere


And it's all part of another

Normal conversation

Free of worries, free of troubles

Free of frustrations


I can hear every word I say

Comes out non sequiter

It must seem like no reason or rhyme, in my mind

But I'm getting better


Explosions bursting off our tongues

Extremely volatile

Judge, jury, executioner

For each other's trial


We Speak in riddles and tongue twisters

Hide everything we confide

The confusion rising

Up to its chaotic noontide


It's all just part of another

Normal conversation

Free of worries, free of troubles,

Free of frustrations


I'm very sorry I disturbed

Your peaceful serenity

All I can ask for

Is a bit of your merciful clemency


And it's all a part of another

Normal conversation

You can be a superstar

But you ain't no sensation


The Knack

=========


I read my book

It's not enough to keep me satisfied

While the page is black and white

My thoughts are tye-died


The words are leadin me on

But you know that I must read on

Like the girl you gotta spread your seed on

You ain't got nothin til you continue to breed on


The ink talks

But I don't believe it says any answers

Two stories are never enough

About the classicals and the romancers

And I'm looking for the stuff

I can't find the dance in the dancers

The sound's not in the radio antlers

No real talk found in the show banter

It hides like an unnoticed cancer

Killing me in proper/discreet manner


Don't believe what you say

Don't hear from my mouth

Don't you see the entranceway

Don't lead the way out


You don't got the knack

I don't got one either

I don't got a knack

For the things that I learned easy

Those simple explanations

Well, they simply just don't please me


And I try to show you

But you say no, too

Just like all the others do

But I'll keep showing, I'm never through

Wondering what you're all waiting for

I want more, We need more


But the roads don't junction

Wherever they actually function

And so I'm looking through a glass onion

And alone I can hear, you see

Everything to me is a euphony

While my mind cooks on overdone


I only know what I feel

Never known what you think

I gotta know what of you's real

Whether it's from the same cup we drink


Tell me do you really know exactly what you want?

Coz I really don't know what that means

And I'm sick of all this "I do" or "You don't"

Killing each other from opposite teams


Don't believe what you say

Don't hear from my mouth

Don't you see the entranceway

Don't lead the way out


And I try to show you

But you say no, too

Just like all the others do

But I'll keep showing, I'm never through

Wondering what you're all waiting for

I want more, We need more


I just don't got the knack

For the things that I learned easy

Those simple explanations

Well, they simply just don't please me


50th Mile

=========


I'll bet you never thought

That the kid walking the sidewalk

Was really running 'way from home

Never thought it, even if it were true


Bet you never thought

He wasn't taking a walk

Never thought he'd be you


Cold fingers can't write

Doesn't know if he's running towards

Or away from the night


Been in a directionless roam

Now, for a long while

Today he's on his 50th mile


Has to walk through dirt and puddles

Cos the sidewalk builders don't walk

As the radio show hosts don't talk

And in his speech he fumbles

Is there really nothing in the mumbles

Past the rage, the cursing and the grumbles

Born as the world twists and it tumbles


Doesn't know where he's goin

If each step is towards or away from home

Like a wolf to the moon he moans

Walking past the pizza parlor drones

Don't understand for they summarize

Instead of looking through his summer eyes

Approaching people with a plastic smile

Says goodbye to his 50th mile


Ransom's Random Ramblings

=========================


You needa read

For your mind to feed

Before it breeds

Spreadin its dead seed

And that's the creed

Ya better fuckin heed


Fuck your self-indulgence

Hail the emergence

It makes full sense

To revolutionize the insurgence


Don't need no certificate

Don't need no prize package

The things I really wanna get

I send ya in my message


Ambience

========


The sound pounds ambient

The roll I call incontinent

Body's burnin a heaven's send

The numbin sleep what you intend

While you toil to pay the rent

Fiery rhymes what I invent


Did Ya Have Fun At the Party?

=============================


Did ya have fun at the party?

Did ya really have the time of your life

Did ya meet a lot of friends, didya tell a lot of jokes

Did you propose to your future wife?


Oh yes sir

Oh yes madam

So happy

Oh, so fuckin happy I am


Drank lotsa nothin

Smoked second-hand cigarettes

Blown lotsa kisses

Toked all my assets


Pulled out my notebook

Did some heavy research

Here's the book I wrote, look!

Bio of the midnight lurch


Did ya have fun at the party?

Did ya really have the time of your life

Did ya meet a lot of friends, didya tell a lot of jokes

Did you propose to your future wife?


Oh yes sir

Oh yes madam

So happy

Oh, so fuckin happy I am


What I'm Missing

================


Do you know what I'm missing

Could you please tell me

So I can write a song about it

If I sang it would you listen

Would you listen to me

Even though I never knew it


Singin bout the things you have, I never known

Long as from my heart is flowin, I can keep the boat a-rowin

Through this vague life's blood I'll ride

Telling of what vague things I find


Drunk Bathroom

==============


Drunk people pissin

And drunk people missin

They all be missin the bowl

Is there a maid in the hall?


I tell ya!


Lisnin, laughin, lovin

Ev'ry word ya say

Talkin, tokin

These fuckers sure know how to play


But I'm alone in the bathroom wishin

That while they're in here they'd stop missin

And I ain't gonna stop bitchin

Til the maid gets on in from the hall


Taken

=====


It's another day, there's another girl

Same as I knew before

With a different face, a different smile,

It's a different girl

But the same to me for sure


Thorns of an encroaching intimate scratch my shins,

Massage her shoulders

Digging deep giving pleasured pain into her skin

Working to unfold her


There they go

They just locked arms

And now I know

Seduced by another's charm

It's an attraction I can't disarm

She's taken


We could've been together

She's taken

I could've gone to get her

She's taken

I could've found the love that

She's makin

Now she can see the apathy

I'm fakin


There she is again, there's another girl

Same as I knew before

With a different face, a different smile,

It's a different girl

But the same to me for sure [speed it up out of monotany, wanting to change the path] [this can't be a simple whine, it's more that you observe] [why do you feel you're viewed 'hitting on']


I'm wond'rin if she hears me scream

Her name while waiting without in my dreams

For her to come closer to me

Wond'rin if she hears how my heart beats

Breathing the shadow of a touch

I see her lovely, lovely so much

I visit my memory, view what's at stake and

an intruder pops my dream cloud, she's taken


We could've been together

She's taken

I could've gone to get her

She's taken

I could've found the love that

She's makin

Now she can see the apathy

I'm fakin

Done this too much for my heart

To be breakin

It's been crushed before, this but one more

Dead leaf crushed that I'm rakin


What am I sayin

I have forgotten what I am is sane


Philosophy (Part One)

====================


Listen to a philosophy

Completely free of dichotomy

What it doesn't find I hope you see

Though I told you

It does not belong to me


Wittling away at my rules of grammer

Taking with me an inadequate camera

And pointing and cutting with a precise laser

Pounding the remains to bits with a hammer


Smashing and mashing and carving and sculpting

And screwing and sawing and painting and bolting

A process unruly which I find revolting

Capturing volcano lava while molten


Listen to a philosophy

Completely free of hypocrisy

What it doesn't find I hope you see

Though I told you

It does not belong to me


Title and a Summary

===================


Music hits me when it goes beyond the title and a summary

It can't just bring one, but all of your memories


Voices

======


Voices on the radio

Special messages for me


Voices that make you crazy

If you believe that they're purple and hazy


But listen slowly and it is "nothing clear"

And many voices you will hear


But it's your own choice

If what you want to call it is a voice


Common Knowledge

================


(Don't ya know, boy) Ya need a lesson

(Don't ya know, boy) Ya need to be schooled

(Don't ya know, boy) What you think is nothing

(Cos ya know, boy) We already made rules


(Don't ya know, boy) Ya gotta read the papers

(Don't ya know, boy) If ya wanna learn the news

(Don't ya know, boy) Life is in the women

(Don't ya know, boy) It's in the smoke and in the booze


(Don't ya know, boy) Time is only now

(Don't ya know, boy) Life's too short to die

(Don't ya know, boy) We already know how

(Don't ya know, boy) Trying's too hard to try


(Don't ya know, boy) that's common knowledge

(Don't ya know, boy) That's common sense

(Don't ya know, boy) It's the way we live

(Don't ya know, boy) It's how we pay the rent


(Don't ya know, boy) You better grow up

(Don't ya know, boy) We don't live in the sky

(Don't ya know, boy) Birds don't speak English

(Cos ya know, boy) Simply 'cause they don't try


(Don't ya know, boy) There's only paths ya can take

(Don't ya know, boy) Work for wage or salary

(Don't ya know, boy) There's nothing else ya can make

(Coz ya know, boy) The rest is just charity


(Don't ya know, boy) Peace is too far away, boy

(Don't ya know, boy) For blind men to see

(Don't ya know, boy) When you grow old and wise up

(Don't ya know, boy) You'll learn to let it be


(Don't ya know, boy) that's common knowledge

(Don't ya know, boy) That's common sense

(Don't ya know, boy) It's the way we live

(Don't ya know, boy) It's how we pay the rent


Little Helper

=============


Think about this

Before you reject

My words can't defeat

Your rival intellect

I'm not spreading disease

It's antidote I inject

I'm here to donate

I'm not here to collect


I'm a little helper

And I'm not a yellow pill

I'll try to fill your mind

Hope I don't make ya ill

I'll give you all I got

With your permission, if you will

I'm on an endless mission

Don't worry, I'll pay the bill


Row the Boat Back

=================


You start to grow old

When play becomes a chore

And games are but heavy dreams

To carry on your shoulder


Row the boat back

To a younger time

And we'll row the boat back

To a younger mind


Is there anybody inside

This world I call the outside

Can't see through this blue shell

I think I need younger eyes


Row the boat back

It'll be a grand time

If we row the boat back

To a younger mind


Row the boat back

To the time of our lives

Let's row the boat back

To our younger minds


Stardom

=======


I'm gonna be star

Gonna get what I want

Don't you know

That's how it goes (You'll go far)


Sitting by the road

O that metal's so cold

Never gonna obey the sign


Cos you never know

Which way the boat rows

Might as well make the best of my time

(Might as well make it a grand ol' time)


Lisnin to Dylan

Gotta hardcore rhythm

But I can't fly a tune

Up next to the moon

Don't matter

As long as you digg'em


And as I turn to another page

I'll play the prophet, you play the sage

And just when ya start to find a focus for your rage

We'll paint a new color on the cage


Singing it

Bringin the rhythm

The notebooks overrun

WIll you love me

If you do

Will I be done


I'm pressin to CD

My melody

For cash

I'm digging

For buried treasure

And burying my trash


As thoughts begin to drain

Mind in a flurry of rhyming

There's a stutter in my brains

Puts a falter in my timing


Standing on the docks

On the harbor

Wanna dive in

Cold as a bitch inside

Never mind

Cos now I'm crying


Finger's are cold

And no one's gonna know

Write it down

Spend my money on the town


And my words are just crap

Gotta toilet bowl sound

So I'm gonna take'em back

I'm burning rock N roll down


I've read so much

FEel like I've learned so little

And I can't stand up

Against the ones whose thumbs twiddle


...But


I'm gonna be star

Gonna get what I want

Don't you know

That's how it goes (You'll go far)



[[[

Rhyming words don't come in pairs

Cos they muddle up your mind

Make connections that shouldn't be there

And cover paths that you might find

]]]


Underground Notebook

====================


Lisning to Stones

On my old-time radio

Seeking unknowns

Reading some Plato

Diggin for bones

With a steel-forged hoe

Trapped within moans

Where they go, I don't know


They can't tell you

Who's Better, What's Best

YOu're as good in your Underground Notebook

As them in their glossy plastic dress


There's too many people

For there to be a Number One

It's just a trapdoor to zero

When your usefulness is done

Just take in a mindfull

Keep staring at the sun

And you'll be somebody's hero

Don't forget to take what you've won


They can't tell you

Who's Better, What's Best

YOu're as good in your Underground Notebook

As them in their glossy plastic dress


Am I Free

=========


If dying is

The way you live

All's left that

I can do is give

Am I free


Ghosts haunt me

With your sins

Say 'Do what you want

Cos I can't win'

Am I free


I need you

To be my brother

Stop killing yourself

I have no other

Am I free


Tried to teach you

With a fist

But it didn't learn

The lessons you missed

Am I free


Looking for something

Meaningful

That isn't already

Dead and dull

Am I free


No one's listening

To this unheard music with me

Waiting on the park bench

How long all along it will be

Am I free


Putting on new

Guitar Strings

But in air is dead

The sound won't ring

Am I free


Our world has wrote

One Song of Hope

But we fell deep

Inside its moat

Muddy guitars

Won't play its notes

So with its dirt

We now elope

But are we free


And now we've learned

How to go far

Playing uncensored death

On burnt guitars

But - put simply

To your whole heart

...are we free

(The only things on sale

Rather looks cheap to me)


Praying through cash

With a card in a pocket

Slave to your servant

And the storehouse you stock it

Wealth ain't the blame

If love ain't after rents

Tell me, without making change

Do your dollars make sense



With you will I'll learn

To change the tide

And leave the old,

Dead World behind

And climb topside

Into some kingdom

It's open walls

Ringin of freedom

Then will we be free?


There will we find

Our lost friends

To live with

In some odd happy end

Is that free?


Even not stopping there

Should we go on

With peace and hope

Or whatever's forever strong

Then will we be free?


That's a tale

For another time

I'm looking, someway

Our world will rhyme

And we'll be free


Yes, that's a story

But it is for another day

But I hope one morning (Which morning?)

You can say

"I'm free"

I'm free

And say it with me

...Truthfully



Has Jesus wrote

One Song of Hope

And We fell deep

Inside its moat

That Muddy guitars

Won't play its notes

So with its dirt

We now elope

But are we free?


Grow Up

=======


There's marks on my arms

And there's phlegm down my throat

There's a ticking in my eye

That's just what God wrote


I see your face through the screen

These puckered lips, what do they mean

Wich I only knew the ones I met in books

Martin, Plato, Gandhi

I've given their pictures so many looks


I have with me so much love to show you

Well, here I am but where's it all gone to

I'll bring some boardgames and at halfway we'll play

My vision's turning blue

I'm wondering if you see the same way


I've gotta lot to grow up

My arms are beginning to atrophe

My guitar's lost a pickup

And I wanna move on my ability


I'm Lost

========


Don't love the place I am

Can't love the place I go

My heart beats high rpm

(In/Spin) Revolutions my soul must undergo

Have sins which i must acquit

I've got a gun, just haven't bought it


Can you shoot me now

I need to be alive

Can you tell me how

And when you will arrive

Posters are covering my walls

they don't keep company at all


Can ya help me find something

I'm lost

Can ya tell me where I am

Cos I'm lost

Can ya lead me to someone

Who can help me help myself

Don't matter what the cost

Because I'm lost


Lethargic in my room

Lay me down to sleep

Mummified and entombed

Give a god my soul to keep

Now from what I lost

None of you shall reap


Can ya paint me a new sign

I'm lost

Can ya help me feel the time

Cos I'm lost

Can ya direct me to to the next street

Can ya tell me where to cross

Can ya give me someone to meet

Please, I'm lost


PB and J (Peace, Bombs, and Justice)

====================================


From down here there's not

A clear view of the world

So I hafta give what I got

And then fly away like a bird


Here's a place where you can run in circles

Living out your dream

When it's too crowded for purple mountains

To be seen


Why don't I just calm down

Hear the cheering all around

Cos Peace is taking over the world

See the pole on top of the mound

A pride worth more than jewelled crowns

Go get your flag unfurled


Justice is something

We're always catching up to

It's not something

That simply comes to you


When we thought of our children

Something went horribly amiss

They're not products of what they're given

They're made up of what they (can) notice

They're made up of what they're given

If what they're given we don't notice


Why don't I just calm down

Hear the cheering all around

Cos Peace is taking over the world

See the pole on top of the mound

A pride worth more than jewelled crowns

Go get your flag unfurled

Cos Peace is taking over the world


Starting Line

=============


Every race begins with a starting line

It continues your race's last mile

I see you finish one more race, I see you smile

I'll see you again when I finish mine


Hear the whistle blow

You go

Hear the fire of a gun

You run

Who is there to race but yourself

No one else

Who is there to be true to

Who but you


I remember... Remember when you were so fair

We played... Dodging trains that weren't really there

Swinging... Higher-and-higher without a care


Now we're running from the sandbox

And running from an innocent touch

To something... Something you only get for so much


I've let go... I've let go... I've let go

What's it I'm hanging onto

I'm drowning in the water

But someone's dragged me... Dragged me out

Dragged me all the way out


Now I'm soaking the road

Leading myself down

My fiftieth mile

Leaving a trail of wet ground


Every race begins with a starting line

It continues your race's last mile

I see you finish one more race, I see you smile

I'll see you again when I finish mine


I've got my own race to run

You're invited to have some fun


Summer Swim

===========


I decided to go out for a summer swim

Dip my foot in first, see if it's safe to go in

Wading through sea, testing its waters

I'm a floating feather and nothing else matters


The brother sun warms my soul, gathers in beads

Submerge... look for life underneath

Reach my hand in, twirl it in some weeds

Tie up a bow, make myself a love wreath


Drifting aimless in a world of aquatic ambience

Dancing with the jumping lights in this deep blue

Going with the stream in a fluid trance

A plethora of life I see with this calm view


Youth

=====


Breathe Deep

Just for one last time

You can't keep

What you've got on your mind


Don't hold it

Don't hold so tight

Just mold it

Yea, til it's just right

(That's right)


Build that castle

You're a little child

Get the shovels and the pales

And play for a little while


It's not yours

No, it isn't yours to show

Just keep it a secret

Who is gonna know?


Grab a quiver

A quiver of arrows

Dance with a whisper

As life's blood flows


Dance the dance

And walk the walk

Go your own way

But don't forsake the flock


Looking for Some Water

======================


I went down to the store

Bought what I couldn't afford

And now I'm crawling, down and beat

Skin burning from the heat

Looking for some water

Looking for some water

Sorry to be be

Such a bother

But could you spare some water

For-a me


My friend, just went on a diet

I was heavy, so I figured I'd try it

Now I'm lean, as I'll ever be

But I'm thirsty as hell, Could ya cater to me

And now I'm

Looking for some water

Well, I'm

Looking for some water

Sorry to be

Such a bother

But could ya give some water

To-a me


Lost Loved One

==============


You are crying over your lost loved one

Trying to remember all that fun gone

Everyone loses the places they once played

Waiting for them to return at a later date


Warring Metaphors

=================


I don't have time

Nor the skill

To construct metaphors

Becuz my soul is blind

And my mind is at war


Art

===


It's been a long hard day

I've just got up from bed

And I wish I could be proud

Of yesterday and what I've said


After sorting through my things

And deciding which to do

I Measure myself on the wall

To see how much I grew


I take out a pen, some paper

And see what it writes

Maybe today I'll do some justice

To what is on my mind


With a white chalk I draw

On the great black board

But the dust that I sneeze upon,

Is what I'm aiming for


It floats from my sight

And far from where I stand

Perhaps it will live out its days

On another artist's hand

(With another secondhand)


(It floats from my sight

To be secondhand

Under the pen of another

Lonely artist's command)


Bright Eyed Girl

================


Bright eyed girl

Can I be your friend

That's all I want

Don't care about the latest trends


Not looking for the One

It's the lonliest number, I hear

Just looking for someone to help

To give a shoulder to catch the tears

(And One to see through mine)


I admire your bright eyes

The ones that could never tell me any lies

The ones that let me see deep inside

Oh, they're so beautiful it makes me cry


Smiles always begin

With the corner of the eyes

See the smile trickle down

That smile never lies

(Unless you're fooled by disguise)


Bright eyed girl

Can I be your friend

That's all I want

Don't care about the latest trends

Just wanna be your friend


I have a joke

That I want to say

So I can see a smile

Trickle down your face


Larger Than Life

================


Hey, hold your head up

Before you learn to live that way

You've fallen but you can get up

You've gotta look when the sun comes up

The light gleams through a crack in a hopeful ray


I know you're down now

Catching tears from a rain cloud

Keep your coat it's gonna turn around

And when your dry you'll be standing tall and proud


At the end of the day

You'll be feeling larger than life

Becuz you made it that way

Yea, yea, it's all right


No, don't deny to yourself

You'll only hurt

If you lie to yourself

Keep pushing and

You'll learn to rely on yourself

It's hard

But you can't lose


No, please

Oh, please don't fret

Be at ease

See how much better it gets


You've been down before

Once for every time you've been up

And you'll be down again after you're up once more

And then again you'll hafta get up


And you'll be larger than life

For everything you've tried

Yea, it'll be all right

Cos you waited for the turn of the tide


At the end of the day

You'll be feeling larger than life

Becuz you made it that way

You're gonna be larger than life


Now

===


Stop checking the hourglass

Dreading for deadlines to pass

They'll be gone

And you won't know where they went

Stop checking your wallet for cash

Worrying about getting the cheapest gas

It'll be gone

All the gold will be spent

And you won't

Won't know where it went


All that is today

Is all that is tomorrow

TIme is something you can't give

Can't take, Can't borrow


Stop staring at where you fell

Wondering who you should tell

It will pass

And all your sorrows will melt

Stop ringing the broken bell

Crying at the empty well

You'll move on

And won't remember how you felt

And all your sorrows will melt


The poems you exhale later

Won't be the ones you breathe now

Come and go like a vapor

Sorry, (I'd tell I know but) don't know how


Stop worrying bout the time

Start thinking bout you

There is nothing you can buy

That will always remain true


CuZ All that is today

Is all that is tomorrow

Time is something you can't give

Can't take, Can't borrow


Strength in Numbers

===================


We can't be wrong

Cos there's strength in numbers

There's an election coming up

And we can't all be runners


Magazine writers and journalists say

This is true, that is proven

The scientist, novelists, poets

Tell me what ideas are foreign


I don't like to argue

With my own common sense

It invites lurid thoughts

That rain down in torrents


This is the horoscope

For the the future and the past

Remember that history repeats itself

And you can't live up to the task


We can't be wrong

Cos there's strength in numbers

There's an election coming up

And we can't all be runners


The Master Plan

===============


Get them inferior people

Lock them away

They are brutal animals and

Shouldn't see the light of day


Don't let them multiply

We should cut off their genitals

So they can't copulate

Or have children at all


Chorus:

Yes, that's the solution

To all of our problems

Killing off those not like us

Is how we can solve them


We don't need those people there

Their skin is a bit off

Innocents are dispensible

Cos that's how I get off


We as individuals know

That they are all the same

Kill one, you've gotta kill them all

And in that there is no shame


Chorus:

Yes, that's the solution

To all of our problems

Killing off those not like us

Is how we can solve them


Bridge:

And I'll be doing what I can

To devise our master plan

To distinguish those of a different brand

For their kin are not of man


Campfire

========


Using the same rhymes over and over again

Building a camp fire as I pitch my tent

Gathering firewood, preparing for another cold night

Gasping for air, yawning, and taking another lonely sigh


The wood is wet, the fire won't start, I'm getting behind

Mud caked in my hair, scream, AAAAII'm losing my mind

Pushing away tomorow, coz I'm not even ready for today

I need a holiday, a castaway, what's the image I'm trying to portray


Practising hopeless makes you perfectly hopeless, better than all the rest

When you've got your craft just right, you're gonna ace that test

The task at hand, for you, man, is to think, HARD!!, find some structure

And put it on paper, with a pen that has just run out of ink


So dry off that wood, with the tail pipe shooting out car exhaust (Burn that moss)

Spin it around, turn it over, upside down, and cut it across

Light it up, burn some paper, get inspired, let your mind play

What you gotta say, hey, you gotta car, what are you doing here anyway?


Gladiators

==========


The cars are lined up in a parking lot

I look through them all, dream of which I want

Wishing I could be like someone I'm not

I can't afford the things my mind has bought


I'm never invited around to the same places

Cos no one will ever see others face to face

I'm running after in a heated car chase

When was this made such a chariot race


I'm riding on a chariot of fire

My skin burns, I must ride on, but I'm tired

The tension's mounting higher and higher

And I don't know to turn left or right


Can you give me the time, it's getting late

I'm getting too hungry to care for food on my plate

Not either sinner or saint, cos I ain't

And so here ends the song, I'll leave it to fate


Simple Kid

==========


Johnny has left his girl for the parties

Now he haunts her like a poltergeist

He now basks in sunshine in tranquility

And she had tears in her eyes


What can I do to change Johnny

And how can I cheer her up

I can't afford it with money

And try to put some in each cup


It's been a dirty breakup

And they don't wanna makeup

Playing games of the mind

No matter what I try


I'm just a simple kid

I'm just trying to be true

But there are times when I'm not sure

And I don't know what to do


Two of my friends are fighting

Run at each other's sighting

One's gone into hiding

The other's not even trying


Now I have to choose

But with each path I lose

What if one will refuse

Perhaps I'll set up a ruse

And won't tell them the good news


I'm just a simple kid

I'm just trying to be true

But there are times when I'm not sure

And I don't know what to do


I want the best for all my friends

I wanna be your friend too

I'll be here through all your troubles

I hope you'll be there through 'em too


Just want you to keep your head up

Until your troubles have passed

When you have fallen, you'll get up

Versus you, your troubles can't last


I'm just a simple kid

I'm just trying to be true

But there are times when I'm not sure

And I don't know what to do


Where This Road Goes

====================


My mood is showing

Cos there's a smile on my face

And all the bad times

Have gone without a trace


The sun is shining

Long time since I felt its heat

And I'm gonna find a hope

Walking down this endless street


And I know, where this road goes

And I know, where it leads

And I know, how to get there

And I know, it's you I want to see


The leaves are budding

On all the spring trees

I see the sprinters running

And I don't wanna leave


And I know, where this road goes

And I know, what I'm walking for

And I know, when this road ends

Then I'll know, I'll be at your door


Your face is blushing

And I know just why

You're so kind and loving

And I decided to stop by


And I know, which path to go by

And I know, which one to take

And I know, that when I see your face

That I'll know just what to say


I came by today

Cos there's something I want to do

I just stopped by to say

That I think I love you

I just stopped by to say

That I think I love you


And I know, where this road goes

And I know, where it leads

And I know, how to get there

And I know, it's you I want to see


Old Code

========


Turns on the radio

Learns what life is all about

Deciphers the old code

From the twisted web of wails and shouts


GO

==


I don't know what to tell you

I am me, and you are you

Looking for somewhere to place the blame

But it always goes back to the very same game

GO... Just GO


Fears and questions running through my head

Am I lazy, am I crazy, am I dead?

Everyone telling me the same thing

Sort through the rubbish, then I gotta sing

GO... Just GO


Dreams become heavy when duty calls on ya

Walls cave, responsibility falls on ya

Doin the best you can, but you got no plan

No one understands, only thing you say is:

"I gotta GO... I gotta GO"


Someone else's song, on some else's stereo

That'll never be me, I won't be that way, hear myself say

Things change, we've all seen it on replay

Insanity, morality, mass hysteria


Goodbye

=======


I've got some things to do now

Yea, and a lot of things to learn

And I pray that I am ready

When the page has to be turned


But if I say goodbye now

Please don't follow me away

Or trail behind me like a lost mutt

Waiting for someone to play


When all your wishes have been asked for

And all your dreams have been spoken

Will your prayers begin to answer

Or will your promises be broken


Tell me, if I said goodbye now

Would you plead for me to stay

And ask me to rethink til tomorrow

Though I say I must today


Remember when I told you stories

About how legends never die

And then I'd wonder why I'm still alive

Wonder if it would make you cry


And if I said goodbye now

I would whisper in your ear

So that no one around, but you

Would be close enough to hear


But perhaps when I arise next morn

My buried talents will awake

And then I will enter a contest

What can I lose with nothing at stake?


How Can I Help?

===============


Dragging along

Trying to write a new song

Do what you can along the way

What'd'ya say?


Feelin down?

How can I help?

Don't give me too much

I don't want to be a crutch


Can ya spare me a dollar

Says the man on the street

Can ya do me a chore

Says your family at home

Can ya help me out

Asks the new friend you meet

Can you donate

Asks the voice on the telephone


Feelin down, are ya?

How can I help?

I'm feelin pretty down too?

Couldn't ya tell?


The poorest man I ever seen

What good am I too him?

It's survival of the fittest out there

You either sink or swim

Some lose, some win (Is it truue what the fool say?)


People getting loud

It's an emotional crowd

How can I help?


Paying your dues

Obeying the rules

Really, Is that what enough to help?


Or asking

Don't want to work no more

Close my door

Can't I just sleep


Can't be though

Don't everyone know

How the saying goes

What you sow, you reap


Feelin down?

How can I help?

I don't know what I can do

I'm not so great myself


How bad does it hurt

Here, let me get my scale

Who's bad, who's worse

Now, take off your shirts

Quick, get in line!

Let me see, who's first?


I'm just dragging along

Trying to write a new song

Checking right from wrong

Do what you can along the way

What'd'ya say?


In Us We Trust

==============


How do you go

When you know

That a killer could take

Your last breath as his own


How do you live

Like all the rest

When your very next breath

Be your last before death


Live without care

So you better beware

All haters are involved

In a love affair


We can kill em off

We can be the boss

Don't let 'em tell you otherwise

In Us we trust

Life is just

Only as long as your enemy dies


They're wrong, you're right

That's why you fight

Someone's father isn't

Coming home tonight


Woah

There he goes

Here come another one

Watch him grow


That's why you must

Agree with us

We told you so

Blood is contagious

Watch it flow

Never let a soul know

Tell 'em what you wish

Just make Plan A go


We can kill em off

We can be the boss

Don't let 'em tell you otherwise

In Us we trust

Life is just

Only as long as your enemy dies


With You

========


Is there a word worth saying

Something I know worth showing

A [game/tune] I learned worth playing

A place there is worth going

With you


A pretty face

I don't want her to be mine

Prize race

Try to beat the best time

But I don't drive far

In the back of a car

With you


Miss you

Lord, I don't want to feel emotion

It's true

Lost all interest and devotion

Not a very smart fool

Afraid to go to school

With you


Out of tune

Tie myself to my bed

Be dead soon

Rid this music from my head

And it's getting very hard

To feel frets on my guitar

With you


Getting numb

House of pleasure, house of pain

And Dumb

Family blood is getting drained

Wondering what's gained

When I show up again

With you


Is there a word worth saying

Something I know worth showing

A [game/tune] I learned worth playing

A place there is worth going

With you


I'm Depressed

=============


I'm depressed

And it's gettin the best of me

Not getting any rest for me

It's testing me

Undressing me

Incessantly

Future, past, (and/but more) presently

Feel like dying

Too hard to feel like trying

Every moment feel like crying

All your hope I'm denying


The Storyteller

===============


He's running only on what he was fed as a kid

No faith, no kindness, no love to begin

There was a time in his life many years before

When he could weave stories untold of lands of lore

With glittered parchment and a pen of gold

Such wondrous epics for all to behold


Foreign

=======


What's that?

You don't know where to go

Here's something to sign, have my services

Your name goes right by the X

Please excuse the mess

Oh, and, how's the misses?

First time, on the line

You'll do fine, here's what you have to say

I before E, except when it's not you see

And you're on your way


That's it, there's no more

Let me show you to the door

Run along now

It's a big world out there

Just watch your step and take care

Ask Mr. x, he'll know how


Another one done, that was fun

But I've gotta run

No more time

The bell has rung, timecard's punched

The sung is song

So I guess it's goodbye


Hiccup

======


It appears that I'm about

To get back up

Oh, wait, I'm falling back down

Turns out it was just a hiccup


I live my life in an irregular pattern

In shorts bursts, my efforts scattered

I can't breathe, to a normal beat

Too jerky to be showcased in the marquee


For an instant, I see the blueprint,

Of reality, But then it drifts from me

For that moment, My mind is mine

I get high

But fear puts me back in line


The conclusion

Is disillusion

No faith or trust

It's just a parody

Of thinking clarity

The feeling's unjust


Coz when it appears that I'm about

To get back up

I fall back down

Was just a hiccup


And the feeling

Has got me reeling

I'm not healing

I need some healing

Air is drowning my throat

I'm Trying to keep my dreams afloat

But when the hiccup takes hold

It's just another thing to choke


Coz when I dream a song to sing out loud

The hiccup jumps and pulls it back down

When you're not onstage, you lose sight of the crowd

Who will help me now


Gotta move around, I can't sit still

The feelings lifting me up, I'm the king of the hill


Until...

Can't do it anymore

Hiccup just lurched me to the floor

Coz when it appears that I'm about

To get back up

I fall back down

Was just a hiccup


And the feeling

Has got me reeling

I'm not healing

I need some healing

Air is drowning my throat

I'm Trying to keep my dreams afloat

But when the hiccup takes hold

It's just another thing to choke


Coz when I dream a song to sing out loud

The hiccup jumps and pulls it back down

When you're not onstage, you lose sight of the crowd

All my ideals are drowned

Who will help me now


I try to talk

It won't come out

Don't know how to go about

I breathe in air

Its stale and dry

I'm way down low, a natural high


Johnny Mandolin

===============


Johnny is a growing man approaching his year 20

He's carries a jar with him where he keeps every extra penny

For he knows that others don't get much, while he gets plenty


He moves from place to place as his jobs don't stay the same

Had a roomate for a little, Albert Herman was his name

Keeps his living simple, doesn't bother him to keep things plain


He walks everywhere instead of taking the bus, gets there in hours flat

Saves the family back home money, and you know that that ain't bad

And the world seems less hectic, coz everything isn't flying by so fast


Madman Shunt

============


Yes, I think I've found the problem

Your son has no imagination

He had it sucked from his head when he was a little boy

With his cable television and his automatic toys

But the most suspect reason for this debilitating drain

Was found by a madman known as Shunt who leads research on the brain


Though his results based on circumstance and his theories get no respect

I will tell you his conclusions, what they were, in retrospect

He said the key to the mind is a channel through the soul

But where your son's should be there is a giant gaping hole

And my advise for you, dear, is that when you get back home

Simply slit both his wrists and then leave him alone

I've seen this before and there is no known cure

Get him off your mind and leave him behind

What your son has lost, he can never gain back

His mind once churned colors but now has gone black

From misuse and disuse it's become to late

His minds been stretched out from too much shit too dilate

With anything imaginative or artistic in fact

Things that are used even in science if I'm correct


Mission Statement (Doin' What I Can)

===================================


I've got Books on the wall

Gonna read them all

Gonna make me smart

And then turn it into art


I'm gonna: Go to school,

Learn the rules,

And then Break them all,

Gonna Watch them fall,


It's time to change the time

With what they left behind for me

A melting pot inside my brain

It's all rubbing against the grain


Gonna learn this guitar

Gonna play it hard

Gonna strike these strings

The screaming crowd gonna hear me sing


Gonna write my dreams

Sow 'em up at the seams

And show them to the world

No longer to be unheard


It's time to change the time

With what they left behind for me

Gonna (take it all/strike it rich) with the band

Just dealt me a winning hand


I've got a dollar in my pocket

Gotta song and some rhythm, gonna rock it

Gonna gather what I got at the concerts

Gotta bandage gonna heal where it hurts, ya


It's time to change the time

With what they left behind for you

World set in motion when time bagan

Faith and devotion, all be doin' what you can


Pop Thought

===========


Listen to the tick tock tick tock

Of the clock of your

I think it's reached it's tip top tip top

You love your musical radio

Absolutely absolutely though

What this is not

Is Pop thought

Coz Pop Tarts

Got no heart


Can't see the forest for the trees

Don't feel like knowing what that means

Lost my imagination in the war

No means for creation and what's more

I stole your artwork

It was lying there propped up against the wall

There were more paintings in your house

I wasn't very discriminate, I just took them all

I promise to give them back once I've

Torn them to shreds and copied them

Found a rosebush nearby on your beautifully landscaped lawn

Broke a flower off of its stem

I hope you don't mind

I saw the sign

It said stay off the grass

I walked right through though

Not to be unkind

Just didn't have the time

To walk in anything but a straight line


The End of History (Someone's Listening)

========================================


Verse:

------

Carving messages on the barks of the trees that the roots can't do without

Learning lessons the hard way, just say what you want you don't have to shout

Someone's Listening

Someone's Listening


Breaking through the bubble that's held everyone else back, for so long

Learning from our mistakes, practising what makes us not weak but strong

Someone's Listening

Someone's Listening


Chorus:

-------

All of knowledge

Meant for delving

Tip of the iceberg

And it's melting

I've written the end of history

And we're just beginning to write

Ours


Verse:

------

All in the grey, how much of the pallete. When, how do I become someone else?

Decisions and time, moving by, what should I do? Who am I?

Someone's Listening

Someone's Listening


Learn more only if I take another class? Life or paper, which test to pass?

Truth littering with a glancing phrase, undermining what we say

Someone's Listening

Someone's Listening


Chorus:

-------

All of knowledge

Meant for delving

Tip of the iceberg

And it's melting

I've written the end of history

And we're just beginning to write

Ours


Bridge:

-------

And someone's listening

Someone will always be listening

Spread that seed and I know

Someone will be there to watch it grow

It's the end of history

The beginning of ours

We're surrounded and I know

Someone's Listening


================


I don't know if I'll be alive or

Dead upon your timely arrival

Figured out life's not a game of survival

Just a question of whether you're gonna play


Deal Me In

==========


Everyone's doing all they can

No plan they know seems to be helpin'

No wonder everyone is resorting to blame

That it's a devil's card game we're dealt in


Too Much of A Good Thing

========================


I was a man never too inclined

To livin on the Edge

But I'm intendin to get loose

And that's my pledge

I've got these trinkets

That give me good feelings

Ones that I can't get

From real world real things


Yeah what's the point

of just a little ecstasy

when what I really want

is too much

of a good thing


Pop Tart

========


Listen to the tick tock tick tock

Of the clock of your mind

I think it's reached it's tip top tip top

You love your musical radio

Absolutely absolutely though

What this is not

Is Pop thought

Coz pop tarts

Got no heart


No certainty, of security

Are we really any safer than before?

I'm a pacifist, so why all the rage?

If you listen, I'll tell you more


Coz your new way

Is now your way

Gotta have it your way

Well, that's what they say


Love conquers all

Becuz they say it's true

So love your family, coz

No one loves your family

More than you


I'd like one of each please

As if there were any good ones

Now everybody's happy

Coz all I wanna do is have fun


Thieve's Market

===============


Chorus:


Rivalry

Don't let me

Be served on a platter

If you think it matters


I'm robbing

People's things

So everyone

Will be undone


Big brother teaching little brother to steal

Why bother getting a job that's real

Items don't need to be store bought

As long as you never do get caught

I'm learning how to steal what's yours and mine

More thieves being robbed all of the time


Chorus:


Rivalry

Don't let me

Be served on a platter

If you think it matters


I'm robbing

People's things

So everyone

Will be undone


Show Me (Or Is There Nothing To Show?)

======================================


You say what you say

What is more to do?

You can run triple plays

And retire the entire other crew


But you never knew

You were falling behind

You were always told

To run in a straight line


The diamonds shine pretty

But the beauty's deep inside

Yet you refused to crack it open

For fear of what you'd find


And though all the stores close at 10

Your heart still beats on beyond then

You bought what they sold

And did all you were told


You hardened the mold

Let it sit til it was cold

Made rules out of clay

And called your day play


Call yourself a rebel

Now you're going to hell

Am I going too fast

For your straight A's in class


Chorus:

-

What's that in your song?

Is it more than 5 minutes long?

Did you pour in air til it was full?

Show meeeeeee

Or is there nothing to show?

-


You've painted starry skies

To dazzle human eyes

And sell as merchandize

Pretty persuasive lies


You've written your book

Your whole life's how long it took

It doesn't show your age

Coz you penned it in your cage


While talking to the man who held the key

And convinced you inside was your home

Coz you always felt welcome

Because you were never alone


Never ran out of friends to love


Or enemies to hate

Which is which all depends on

What side you were on when one locked the gate


And you sing your song tonight

But I've heard it all before

And its possible when you sing it tomorrow

You'll show me nothing more


There's nothing I can show you

Until it springs to your realization

I can't and won't give you the key

It's all in my imagination


Call yourself a rebel

Now you're going to hell

Am I going to fast

For your straight A's in class


Chorus


I just don't have a song

To boost your state of mind

To do so before you're ready

Would be inexcusably unkind


Wonder why you look away from me

Coz you're really missing out

But I guess that true freedom is something

You'd be more comfortable without


I'll admit your song comes from the heart

And you inked it with a pen of gold

But I just don't give a shit

Gold's worthless to me

when your heart's the same old


Reign of God

============


I love you


We shall overcome

In the end

You shall overcome

As our friend

We as friends


The kingdom of God lives inside you

I won't let them tell me it's not true


All

===


Deathly Ill

I don't got a pill

That can cure your ill

All I can give is you

Just you


Kind words

Don't cure your hurts

But I don't have words

All I can give is you

All is you


And these damning night

Cast shadows on all the lights

People fall in clusters

I know there must be

Another way


Lies in disguise

Embed themselves in our eyes

Who can win

No matter who tries


Strong will

Gleams through the windowsill

Not until

It's creation

All I can and will

All I can give is you


The day breaks

But there is no light

In the sky

I wonder why

The morning dew makes

My heart ache


All I Have

==========


I know you're so unsettled to be

I know I have love to give away free

It's all I can do at all

It's all I have and I'm giving it away

This is all I have, but not all I have to say


My song doesn't show all it can

Under my feet, you can't see me take my stand

My place is here, right where I am

My place is true, I reach out my hand


I've got pictures in my mind

So beautiful, so very kind

I'm still dreaming visions for tomorrow

Til my hearts stop beating and is hollow


Painting pictures, of the world for you to see

I know I have love to give away free

It's all I can do at all

It's all I have, all I have at all


My teaching method is what I improve

Education is an ointment to soothe

Don't feel so down, you have influence

When your gut feeling and justice are in congruence


I read your letter, so pretty from your heart

It ain't all that great, but it's definitely a start

I see truth ingrained in the ink

You're mind is working, what do you think


Right now they don't listen, but I think they might

Cooperation makes everyone right

No use for bitterness and malice

Freedom and truth can house us all, it's a big enough palace


I know right know, we're taking the fall

I know our progress looks like its stalled

But we're all waking up a little more

If you're still asleep, you can't walk through the door


I know you're so happy to be

I know I have love to give away free

It's all I can do at all

It's all I have and I'm giving it away

This is all I have, but not all I have to say


Build a Gate

============


Feel the sun beat down

See the light rise up

Freeing all the sorrow


Hear the river run

Hear the mighty stream

Rushing towards a peaceful tomorrow


The world is heading

Towards a better day

The word is spreading

It's coming our way


Don't fall again

Don't lose hope

Faith is a balancing stick

On your tighrope

Oohh


Feel the sun beat down

See the light rise up

Illuminating a peaceful tomorrow

Ooh


Hear the river run

Hear the mighty stream

Wherever it flows, I will follow


Justice and right

Are charging to meet us

It's a hungry night

Truth will feed us

For now


Sit in the conservatory

Where light can flourish

Fact is found in fictional story

And God can answer a wish


Your wound must hurt now

I'll help make it better, ohh

The walls slowly being torn down

And love, we'll get her

Ohh


Build a gate

Build a gate

For the stream to flow through

It's not late

Not too late

It just takes so long to do


Won't you come out truth

I'm too attach to you to ignore

You're the only kite that flew

And the line can be made short


Come closer to me truth

Come closer to me love

We live far down here

Come down from high above


Hear the mighty stream

Hear the river run

See the light and

Feel the heat

Of the illuminate sun


Build a gate

Build a gate

For the stream to flow through

It's not late

Not too late

It just takes so long to do


Do ya Miss Me

=============


Do ya miss me?

For I think I've gone away

Did ya Listen to me

Or did ya dismiss the things I say


Well, now I'm gone

Now you'll hear no more

I'm long gone

Travelled to the higher floor

Maybe I'm selfish

For leaving you alone

Coz you know you needed me

To carry you home


Just like I was too lazy

For the responsibility

It left me no room

For peace and tranquility

Now, I can see everything you do

When's the last time you heard from me

You don't get anything new

Not even for the largest fee


So do ya miss me?

Being without me for a day.

Would you have kissed me

If you'd known I was going away?


Yes, it's true

I'm gone and I'm not coming back

The train's whistle blew

As I lay on the railroad track

It looked like a job for me

But my cape must've covered your eyes

Feels like a trip for me

I've never had psychedelic eyes


Inject the venom

It's pleasurable pain

This patch of earth ain't heaven

I ain't coming back again

I douse my truth with glitter

I drench myself in lies

Inside of my mouth tastes bitter

With myths of my delectable demise


So do ya miss me?

Couldn't written the next Great play

If you listened to me

Profound visions won't stay


Do ya miss me?

And my masterpiece of grey

Would ya kiss me?

Now that you know I've gone away


...now that I've gone away


Freefloating

============


Listen

What is that sound

Hear it well

It is my voice!


Listen

To your chest

It must beat

It has no choice


Listen

To my voice

Swallow it whole

You have no choice!


Yes, my young ones

Defile the wall with your beautiful markings

Find the weak spots

To fill in with your influence of kings


I speak in riddles

But you know the answer

I flail my body

But I'm no dancer


Find the writing on the wall

Read it well, read it all

That is your duty, hear it call

Maybe then the gate will fall


Sing to me

With your utter defiance

It is unduly

To stand on higher reliance


There's a net up above

I cut it with my sword

It hinders the path

Of dark skies I'm riding toward


Breathe in small breathes

Your sucking up all the air

We'll put you down if your

Manner is not debonair


The wrinkles in the clock

Must be smoothed with care

For we have no time to talk

I must be going elsewhere


The love we generate

Is duly up to fate

At the rate we procreate

And eat what's on our plate


You say that I am entertainer

And I should shut and do my job

But I refuse to simply jerk you off

If that's what you were thinking of

If you want a clown go to the circus

These circus clothes I will not be wearing

If you don't like my act then leave us

You can't stop the revolution I'm preparing


Hot Woman (Hot Girl!)

=====================


She knows the way

To make your jaw gape open

She'll make only the slightest sound

She knows you'll listen


She's got nothing to say

But that's her appeal

She'll make you think your wounds

Are things only skin can heal


(Hot Woman)

She runs your show

(To me a Hot girl)

And you can't let go


You'd love to order her a drink

And light her cigarette

In hopes that it ain't the

Closest to her that you can get


Well, she knows how to strut

Without breaking her beat

You want the taste of her flesh

To be your after-dinner treat


(Hot woman)

A voice that high

(Hot Girl)

Can fake any lie


You know you're not the only one

You know you're not the first

Coz her rhythm's so perfected

That you can tell she's rehearsed


And the best things about her

Are also the worst

She'll love you til eternity

But only in short bursts


(Hot Woman)

She's got the world to match

(Hot girl)

She don't let nothing attach. No


She's a wizard, heh heh

But she's in of a wand

Her magic they say'll take you to

Heaven, hell, and beyond


And she gives me the chills

As she walks to my table

Could it be a dream come true

Or just a fable


(Hot Woman)

What's behind that makeup mask

(Hot Girl!)

Guess I'm too shallow to ask


Yeah

Hot Woman

To me she Hot Girl

Hot Woman

Think I'll give her a whirl


Running in Place

================


You know what you're doing

But you know better

A hard rains a-brewin'

And you ain't even met her


The road is tough

But the sky is tougher

You're getting rough

And you don't even love her


An angel's in the sky

But he ain't dressed in white

There's a feather in your eye

And it's blinding you tonight


The light is on

The feeling is gone

And there's blood on the floor

You took your time

On the feast which you dine

But you still want more


You're running in place

But that's Ok, coz you know where you're going

Turn about face

And you'll have seen everything that's worth showing

(And you've) proven your case

Coz you've learned everything that's worth knowing

So now you're just running in place

But that's Ok, cuz you know where you're going


Boiling a witch's brew

The runner-up just passed

Toil and trouble in the stew

Becoz you just don't run that fast


Demon's down below

But you don't believe in ghosts

You've stolen the show

A parasite for your hosts


Force of evil, force of good

All depends on who you are

Truth burns inside Holy wood

Through the rear-view mirror

of your getaway car


But the gas is on E

He just won't make it easy

And you can't thumb yourself a ride

So you head down south

All your action figures are laid out

Washed ashore along with the tide


And now you're

Running in place

But that's Ok, coz you know where you're going

Turn about face

And you'll have seen everything that's worth showing

And you've proven your case

Coz you've learned everything that's worth knowing

So now you're just running in place

But that's Ok, cuz you know ( ...exactly... )where you're going


Sleepless Nights

================


Don't you dread the nights, my fellow insomniac

Once it about after ten, and there's no turning back

No one awake and the stores are all closed

The roots of this plague, not a soul knows


Perhaps if I had someone to lie beside

To talk for hours on end about everything I hide

So I create by spilling ink on the page

In hopes I'l be exhausted from all the rage


I feel my mind tire though my body is awake

Or could it be the other way around

It is a slumber which I cannot fake

Although my eyes are closed and I'm lying down


Don't seduce me

Don't sedate me

I keep you tossing

It's too late for me


The fog is closing in

The clock is in slow spin

God, won't you help me

Just strike me down

The word is nebulous

(The) Paper so porous

I'm waiting for death

Or the alarm to sound


It's summer time, the heat is everywhere

The fan doesn't help, it just stirs up hot air

I'm sweating, swimming in wetness

With no one around to be a comforting witness


This is all part of a waking nightmare

In need of a release but its not there

Whole night ahead but it becomes time to spare

My mind is bulging but the page and pen don't care


Don't seduce me

Don't sedate me

I keep you tossing

It's too late for me


The imperfections are all mine

But they don't pass the time

God, won't you help me

Just strike me down

Perfection gives me pause

(A) reason without a cause

I'm waiting for death

Or the alarm to sound


Don't you dread the nights, my fellow insomniac

It's about after ten, and there's no turning back

No one awake and the stores are all closed

The roots of this plague, not a soul knows


Don't seduce me

Don't sedate me

I keep you tossing

It's too late for me


"When I get writer's block, I write about writer's block."


Sorry

======


So sorry

I can't be your friend

I'm carrying much too little

For me to lend you a hand


Friendship

How does it come about

Stay away from those

Who are down and out


You see the drinkers

Open mouths to their kin

And the thinkers

Have nothing in common (in common have nothin)


So I'm very sorry

I cannot be your pal

Coz in your store

Nothing is on sale


And I don't save the day

When you cry out

For it's not a plea for help

But a cop out


Stay away from drowning people

They'll only drag you under

And after you've gone down

Your body's theirs to plunder


And I'm so sorry

That I cannot share the wealth

I'm much too rich

To be offering any help


See she's my type

That is what I think

And in case she isn't

I'll offer her a drink


Talk over a line

So she can't see your face

Take a head start,

Jump start, the gun in the race


Liars are friends

Who believe you at every turn

If you don't know already

Perhaps you'd better learn


These things are all part of

A body of common sense

Before you can build a palace

First you must build a fence


And I'm sorry

That I can't give you my time

Your time is not yours

As long as mine is mine


So sorry

I can't be your friend

I can't worry bout you

Enough to lend a hand...



So sorry

I know it's sick

I'm so sorry

Ain't it ironic


Stowaway

========


I've been told to stop playing silly little games

Doodling nonsense on a once upon a time blank page

But when I don't things as once were aren't the same

I don't grow anymore but my mind begins to age


I'm afraid of jumping the abyss that I might fall

It sure looks lonely down there with all those people inside

And I don't want to just be more writing on the wall

But at least I'll die knowing (what I've done and) that I tried


I can't ever be the best the I can be

Because I wasn't taught that way

Too much a drifter riding other's dreams

I'll never be more than a stowaway


You don't hear much about artists in my family tree

I have fame and fortune that I was never heir to

I'm both running from and towards responsibility

Sifting through old parchment for what in me is true


The size of the library I've found is overwhelming

The size of my mind a severe disappointment

My choice of company not very at all telling

Of the reason's for their unwilling annointment


I can't ever find the whole of me

And never learn to seize the day

Just a thieving drifter riding other's dreams

I'll never be more than a stowaway


August 14, 2003

The Climb

=========


Our town has a landfill

It's just like every other landfill on earth

It has all kinds of things

Piled miles high with treasures gone past their worth


A Great Wall surrounds the pile

And a gatekeeper holds the key

And if you get on the other side

There is a large tax and a fee


And everyone is willing to pay the fee

To climb the pile is their responibility

That's what they learned as boys and girls

Get to the top and prop your flag unfurled


They heard:

"It was something your daddy tried and failed to do

Now leaving a mark is up to you"


My walk to my work each day

Brings me past the wall

And rising high above the horizon

I see another climber fall

The climb is littered with bones of those who wasted away

But they must carry on

Those lives were given to heighten the pile

So that greater power could be won


How many more?

How much longer?

Will the stronger

Please clean up the pile


How many more?

How much longer?

How much longer

To the top of the pile


The landfill is littered with the dead

But the climbers pay no heed

They simply hold fast in their stead

Not noticing their souls bleed


For they care not the cost of their climb

To never again see the outside

They are the victims of a victimless crime

Forever stained with their own pride


At the top there is a stench they say

The glorious stench of victory

The prize of their long and hard essay

Is rule over the humanity


At the top there is only room for one

Only room for one among the dead to live

"Better to rule in hell than serve in heaven"

But the air does misgive


How many more?

How much longer?

Will the stronger

Please clean up the pile


From all afar sage prophets come

Is this the mount He preached from?


How many more?

How much longer?

How much longer

To the top of the pile


The Front Row

=============


Still ain't found what I was lookin for

Coz it ain't right in front of me yet

I'm begging and crawling for more

The congregation isn't set


Dancing deep inside the heart

Bleeding love from the eyes

Preorder tickets for the pop tarts

Beauty being privileged disguise


Put the Messiah way in the back

The needs of our many

Outweigh the needs of your few

Relocate to the reservation


It's only a few

Not a soul but my voice sings

The front row, what a view

Now it's even better than the real thing


Reorganize this crew

For the camera, I wish it blinked

The front row, what a view

Now it's even better than the real thing


Yea, it's all right

I think it's all right

All set now, I think it's all right

Tell the man in the back

That he can turn on the lights


Bring the glitz and glammer

Up'a the front'a the bus

The Messiahs on camera

You too blot for us


Dilute the stew

I'm the New England Chowdah king

The front row, what a view

It's even better than the real thing


This army's ready to bring it home

Send the signal to your tube

I ain't taking off this uniform

I got pictures to prove


Abnorms in the third world

Can't get in my front row

I kill only the best furs

I'm not sorry but you gotta go ('cept you Miss Sarajevo!)


Obsession

That's my favorite perfume

All the concessions

I sell em inside my tunes


Reorganize this crew

For the camera, I wish it blinked

The front row, what a view

Now it's even better than the real thing


s'What I says, what you do

I'm a disciple of the King

The front row, what a view

Even better than the real thing


The Weatherman (and the Windmasters)

====================================


There is a band of demi-gods

Who house the controls to the world

They draw the heatwaves and the floods

And decide when the wind should whirl


I call them the Windmasters

But you may call them Sirs

Their voices are the supreme authority

And lash out at those who don't concur


They hold the reins to Acts of God

You have to appreciate their power

And it's irresistability

As constant as an hour


They've convinced you that their acts

Are the will of an indifferent force

Any well thinking man

Will reply to that "of course"


They've got their method engrained in you

As familiar as your own phone number

Its become ritual, you don't even think

Of it as anything but detached plunder


To you the ends (now) justify the means

And deaths are as regrettable as burnt toast

They feed off of that tainted opinion

Like a parasite to its host


And the rain washes away the blood

Soon the sun will come out

But not this time, I'm the weatherman

And my forecast is a drought


The battles are only as steep a climb

As the stairs to the second floor

But you can't get inside the house

(til you can) Look at the door


What It Takes

=============


I've gotta job, a job I don't know if I can do

It's a job thats calling both me and you

For its been ignored for the longest time

By all those except ones of the strongest kind


We let it pass without response for so many a century

The horrid flame has been burning us with such fury

We tell ourselves its best not to be burnt today

And its scorching heat just pushes the most of us away


But it can be put out, yes it can, if we all sang in tune

If we all waited for a cold night under a quiet moon

And gathered water together in a heated war on the fire

But I'm told what it takes is much more, the price much higher


It takes lots of money to be a good influence on the kids

It takes all kinds of weather for the mud to be rid

It takes every best effort to see what's under the lid

It takes all the right reasons to put in the highest bid


So we sit and wait perhaps, for a rain to put it out

But the clouds don't ever visit, blessed storms never come about

We wait for bold heroes who carry swords of freezing steel

But that warrior's calling not a one of us feels


We've been told were we to band together we'd be devoured one by one

So we stay away, and swim in cool ponds, trying to find fun

But we hear on the other side the flame claims many a child's life

It kills many a man's sons and daughters, leaves a widow of his wife


How can the flame be diminished when its power seems so vast

With every attempt to fight it, it seems stronger than the last

What it takes is a weapon like any only the dead ever knew

To fight the ranks of flame, to strike true and break through


It takes every chord you know to backup the warriors cry

It takes every truth on earth to accompany any lie

It takes the magic of a wizard to drown out the fear of a coward

It takes the time of a clocksmith to make ripe a fruit that's soured

It takes every human being to create a world of free people

It takes all the best boats to attract the smartest seagulls

It takes the bloodiest words to get a glimpse of any truth

It takes all the riches money to buy all a ticket at the booth

It takes every played game to get a smile from all the bored

It takes many helping hands to buy what you need but can't afford

It takes every family's meal to fill the stomach of the hungry

It takes too many a-dying child to put sympathy in the wealthy

It takes all of our blood spilt before the blind see it's too much

It takes every warped word for the blind to see them as such

It takes all the worlds blasphemy to give praise to the Lord

It takes all of harmony to rectify all of this discord

It takes everything we know and love and all that we hate from above

And all that ever confuses us for I'm sure that God chooses us

We can

We will

I won't give up until

The flame no longer burns

It is for freedom I yearn

Freedom

That's what it takes

Freedom

For it I ache

Freedom

For all of you

Freedom

Would be a dream come true


What's That You Say, Baby

=========================


I'm listenin to the telephone

To a voice that's not my own

And I think I'd call it sexy

With a hum that just drones

And a loop-around moan

What would ya tell me?


Is the country coming back up the drain

Is that boy dead or is it a feint

Oh, that flag just don't wanna be plain

People going fishing along the street

Catching every girl they meet

An accomplishment that is such a feat

Keep talking. soon they'll come around

You can't be ignorant in this town

Soon they'll see what others have found


What's that? You say, Baby

You say deaf people don't listen

No, they ain't deaf,

they just don't know t/what they can hear


And What's that? You say, Baby

You say crying eyes just don't open

Nah, baby, they ain't blind,

it's just hard seeing (clear --) through the tears


And I'll tell you baby

Remember one thing, "We Can!" Yeah

Try to open your mind

When you find out how, it comes clear


What you can't read in books

Is how to read them dirty looks

The ones ya get in the palace

There's a host of all creation

Ignites cool imagination

That ya can't drink from a chalice


Keep looking down on me with disdain

Coz I'm swimming in the English rain

I pity whoever isn't insane

You know it pays to be discrete

And what you are is what you eat

And what are is never complete

There's mysteries abound

Watch the walls richochet the sound

And when what you want's in front of you,

better turn around


And What's that you say baby

Huh, crippled people can't walk

No, baby, they ain't lame

Just never been outside their own block


And What's that you say, baby?

Mute voices can't sing. What?

Nah nah nah nah hey baby.

I can't sing -- just don't stop me from doing my thing


And I'll tell you baby

Remember one thing "We Can!" Yeah

Try to open your mind

Pretty soon you'll be feeling it in the air


(Don't badger 'bout my no creativity CD

And pest me 'bout what the songs mean to me me me

The laser pin moves on and the tracks they change

But the spirit is established and the song remains the same


Pop- pop- pop muzik

Talk about... Pop Muzik)


Which Way to Heaven

===================


A man surveys the battlefield alone, he's not one to take sides

But with this war he notices something new

The oceans wax and wane in nuclear tides

Bulldozing all the soft beeches from view


A silent march fills the mute air as the ranks close in

Their guns primed and prepared

And so the bullets fly from the loner's mind at whim

His destiny had been dared


And he casts a shadow

Which he doesn't understand

He ponders his presence

Grips his weapon tight in hand


Should I kill this man

Will He be on my side

Knowing that what I did

Was the only thing I tried


Does nature favor those

who walk the most erect

Does He builds doors for those

Whose paths are most direct


He sees the road define a path in front of him

But beneath it all is bare

Long ago, before this concrete raped the earth

There were roads built everywhere


Chorus:

There's a sign 10 miles high at the crossroad

That directs him to what he's looking for

"This way to Heaven" chimes the glyphs, inked in gold

But without an arrow, tells him no more


The clocks which beat their hearts

To the tune only of the sun

Dedicate their lives to caging us in

To a life of misery and failure

Dictated by deadlines

That cut efforts too short for us to win


So when the zenith 'bove my head houses the sun

My wanting gaze drifts above

In search of what kind force this Universe is run

Because I don't feel this thing called love


Chorus:

There's a sign 10 miles high at the crossroad

That directs to what I've been looking for

"This way to Heaven" chimes the glyphs, inked in Spirit

But without an arrow or voice, he (must) refused to hear it


Who am I to

===========


You'll believe what I say

Just so long as it's true

I'm a horrible writer

You can be one too

You know that snow melts

Before it ever hits the ground

And a noise ain't worth listening to

If you can't feel the sound


How far should I go?

How deep should I dig?

How bloody should I get

Before my blood is shed

And I must know a lot

To say so much

But you know my pen

Is an inkfilled crutch

Do you ever feel hopeless?

Do you ever do anything about it?

Nevertheless

You drop the shoe, it don't fit

Who am I

To tell you things

And claim of all

The joy it brings?


The winds blow in

The opposite direction

The sun doesn't like

My ghostlike complexion

I'm on a beech where

All the swimmers have just left

What I was saying fell

In the sand through a tiny cleft


Do you ever feel hopeless?

I bet you do cos so do I

Nevertheless

I bet you're too hurt to try

How far should you go?

How deep should you dig?

How many wounds should you patch

Before the gash gets too big?

And you must know a lot

To say so much

You can live like a grape

Just follow the bunch


How far should I go?

How deep should I dig?

How many people should I shoot

Before I pull the trig?

How high should I climb?

How low should I stoop?

How much should I rhyme

Or keep up with the group?

How many phones should I call?

How much should I read?

How many girls should I fall

Just to spread my seed?

How long should I live?

How hard should I try?

How much should I give

And of what 'fore I die?

How much should I love?

When should I get rough?

When is enough enough?

When should I look up above?

And who am I

To tell you things

And speak of all

The good they bring?

So just listen good

And listen well

What good or bad

Who can tell?

So journey on

And journey fast

Just keep it slow

Let other past

For who am I

To tell you things Do you feel hopeless

And claim of all What do you do, dont lie

The good it brings Nevertheless

I bet you're too hurt to try


Not a Martyr in Sight

=====================


I'm walking down by the street corner

Stabbed and bled, and innocent bystander

Wasn't a martyr, wasn't ready yet

Implying vengeance, wasn't dead yet


Been called called sick with savior syndrome

I simply say salvation don't always fall on success

Could I live a 'perfect' life, I still couldn't draft the poem

And you'd make my mind delusion like the rest

Had I took the hit not too long ago

I'd spit on my grave too, I confess


Angry Love of the Hypocrite

===========================


Well they say

If you known one, you know em all

Well go ahead

When you know one I'll make it your call

Their persons out of reach

When behind you's what you seek

And when at the top is your peak

Well aren't you angry, hypocrite, at them

You're domestic in their foreign land

Evolved to breathe the putrid fumes [we fan/fanned]

[It's just/Just now it's] OK to strike with our unclean hand


Give me your Word

Just let me do with it ('cording to my own/as I) Will

For the world stays established but it shifts

At the rifts that eternally dare to stay still

Like colored balls pooled in the playground pit

Don't wanna drown but you still jump in it

Maturity fills our park with cement and spit

And the angry love of us hypocrites


Give to me what is yours, give yours what's mine

Stolen televisions and I still turned out just fine

I don't appear

To see everything I hear

Give me your word

And spray dirt at all the other herds


"Give me your love

Gimme your love, Give me your.love

Give me your love Give me your love

Or I'll rip it from your throat my love

Give me your love

Gimme your love, Give me your love

The blood is what keeps us afloat

Myyyyy looooovvve

...


"Your eyes' reflection will never leave my memory

Always admired your huMilitant wit

Never know to fulfill you heirloom gentry

Cos I learned the angry love of hypocrites!"


Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaggghhh

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaggghhh-iaa-aaaggghhh

(I don't know what you don't know what I know)




The remedy is archaic

When the cure makes you sick

And their's plenty in the bowl

But fillin it is the trick

Fill my hole

Can you please fill it

Fill my souul

With the angry love of us hypocrites

Smack me with a kiss of us hypocrites

(It's kiss and tell... then hang)


Only few can play great

Because they wanna make rules

To market to the people in the bleachers

Gazing at the field like fools

Black chew and white sun and brown spit

(I'll take a shit, but I'll give it over not give in your own light

The firing line is in your sight

Hope all's allright despite my spite

Pass it on. Pass what?

Our angry love of our hypocrites


Every hour every minute every day

We can WIN IT! What? number ONE radio play


Fill my hole

Can you please say

'Please fill my souuul'

Fill it with rage but do so lovinglay


Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaggghhh

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaggghhh-iaa-aaaggghhh

(I don't know what you don't know what I know)


Life (Livid Livin') (Enlivened)

====


If life to you's all for gamin

IT's best time you were participatin


Learnin to love

Everywhere and one

So it can't be done


What cross are you carrying

Besides that one strangling your neck

The disciples thought they were worthy

And guess who split when Jesus made that trek


Learning to love all the way

And where not you can betray

Coz when love slips from your mind

It's Ok

(...please pass the faith)


How much've ya disowned?

And oh my, even your nose hasn't grown

But every morning the cock still crows


Who All

=

I'm the musician who hates music

I'm this writer who hates words

Optimist who hates opportunity

The friend who hates you

This seeker who hates truth

Activist who hates action

Pleasure seeker who hates satisfaction



Doctor...hates health

...sneak/spy/dastard hates stealth

Minister who hates the scripture

Canvas painter who hates the picture [not big picture, but little used for small that is clear]

The dock watcher who hates shore

Measure the edge, it's always more

Doctor who hates immunity

Carry you higher with impugnity


Gatemaster who hates the key

The existance that hates the 'be'

I'm this user who hates drug

I'm the lover who hates love

Worker who hates to earn

All near I've hate to yearn

Motivator who hates to inspire

Sleeper who hates to tire

This one who shows who hates what you see

Illustrator who hates the portrayal that is not me

Servant who hates the service

Hate this structure, the method worthless

Hate what here was good, now is tart

On distance from start are apart

This is not beating hateful heart


Mirror Shop

===========


Gone not yet from memory

Still it's become putrid

I've wrapped up that path

Mirrors came hard to see

No one's sharing eyes with me

I try to pass out shards but just draw blood


I can easily say lines that rhyme (Art is easy)

Much harder to make even the cleverest lines contain

Even after maintain inside them what only behind is true

If anything being relative in the mind

The know that I see and the feel that I breathe

Crawling inside me, has it learned to relate to you


Your language don't fit with me

It wouldn't with you


Pass it on

Pass it on

Skip a generation

Simple minority

strong hands

In a world of feet

Make it by

It's disappointing enough to cry

The baby can't say

but knows why

Noone writes this song before I die

I didn't write this song and it's died


Da Capo


She's right in front of me

She wraps around behind

Her bright eyes lined in my dark shadow

The Soul opaque reflections of My mind


Tho' lonely for air grazed skin

To rub against Her soft cheek

Her starry gaze marked in vectors

Paints the map to what I seek


With Raven locks about her hair


Her smile has always stirred the air


I have felt her presence everywhere


But like a ghost, she was not there


She's skilled with a sword

Yet makes peace out of chaos

She is but One with the sun

As dark arise She turns the day off


And Her flowing wavy locks

She waves like the ocean

Yes, She reflects the sun's

Flickering light in motion


Her gentle touch given with care


Her smile stirring the air


Her intentions always fair


O! My Lord, has Created her somewhere!