I've been spread thin over toast
Ready to eat
Will my mind and body ever meet?
Who is there to blame?
Will I see that smile again?
Show me the way
Open your gates

When I'm stuck in the train door
With my guitar
You're there running to help
Pulling at the doors
I look for you in the crowd
I look for you in a new town
And I know you're there behind me
I can hear your braided hair
Thankyou

I need to increase my imagination
With nature, road trips and hiking trails

Wonder is priceless

Baby Mamas with their prams
Eating up wonderland
Dropping bits of food everywhere
Under their chairs

Laughing like schoolgirls
Flustered red
Bits of food
For non-believers
And the un-anointed
Are scarce

Clogging toilets with diapers
Dispensing waste
At an alarming rate

How much for a wonderland?
In the sky
Red marker
Rise and rise
White tissue
Go from white to brown
Bits of pea and chicken
Falling down
  (all together now)
    Bits of pea and chicken
      Falling Down

How much for a trip to wonderland
With a cushioned seat
Padded headrest
And comfy feet?

Eat

A wonderland in the sky
The market is on the rise
The ground is black
And the clouds are white

Every minute
Clouds gather spin and rise
The Earth looks small
Falling behind

How much for wonderland
Up in the sky?

To look with eyes that don’t judge
But Love
I’m on it like crime
I check it every time

Working to see one frame at a time
Mine
A singular flame
Can make a world of change!

Cos there's a whole lot of anger around my legs
I can feel it sometimes
That can't be good for flight
It's a fight

Working
On getting it right
Up on high, each time
Counting wins, 1 2 3...

Would you keep my dreams awake before I go to sleep?

The sun is setting quickly
Soon another day will be over
The mud is rising darling
And I don't want to get stuck
Call me crazy
But I can't help it
All my time
I've devoted to a moment of grace

Would you keep my dreams awake before I go to sleep?

Like scripture that needs singing
Or a puppet being brought to life
Breath some air into this fire
And keep it burning thru the night

Would you keep my dreams awake before I go to sleep?

I know it's not so plain and simple
The way I want it to be
Trying to build a house
In the middle of a shifting sea

So I give it all up
Every last grain of salt
Every atom of energy
Every trick up my sleeve
Every piece of my soul

Would you keep my dreams awake before I go to sleep?

Today is a write off
There must have been sand in the air
Because I could feel the rusty cogs squeaking stubbornly in my head
I didn't punch anything though
I've improved since childhood

Today is a write off
I raced home on the bike
Had a cold shower
Typed this
Now I'm going to turn off the computer and meditate

My name translates to friend

I see the many ways in which you ridicule me

The ways you shake the walls of my good home

The poison you administer

I see it all

But one thing I have

Is this

I'll come out on top

In a peaceful way

My name translates to friend

You can call me Ray



It's hard to stay away from those thoughts

Of letting lose

Nothing to lose

But I have everything

I took the blame

I walked in shame

I felt the pain


But one thing I have

Is this

I'll come out on top

In a peaceful way

My name translates to friend

You can call me Ray



I may not say it everyday

But that is what I mean

In that way

I am free

There’s fluid in Daniel’s chest
He wheezes and coughs
All day
But it doesn’t stop him
He said
You don’t have to have religion to have faith

I went to the Easter mass
And I had to leave
Those people were crazy

Mubi was saying some men
Pray 3 4 5 times a day, even more
That would leave out time to help around the house
That’s pretty much the same as a Catholic’s alcohol addiction

Who is religion for?

For the adolescent males?
Grabbing the fattest part of the wheel
To keep steering us down the drainpipe?
They got me too

Where is love?
Where is empathy?
Babies
Family
Community
Friendship
Self-love

Like what the ****?

We are on a rolling ball in the middle of no-where?
Really.
Have you stopped and looked?

You don’t need religion to have faith.
That’s right

I have faith in my life
That it will go towards something right
That I represent that fight
As all life does
I’m part of it
And thank you for it
Thankyou for all of it
Thankyou

Like rain on a thirsty day
You’ll be seeing me again

You'll see
I'll carry the day
I'll carry it a long way

Out into my openness
That would never go away



All but one room
With its clean carpet
There I wrote songs
Until it got dark

They were true in their aim
Tears came and came
Sisters in the front row
Cried for change



You'll see
I'll carry the day
I'll carry it a long way

Out into my openness
That would never go away



I must have lost a man by now
A young one at least
But here I am
Still protected

My eye is on the moon
Her staircase still
Extending down
Waiting for me and you



You'll see
I'll carry the day
I'll carry it a long way

Out into my openness
That would never go away



Why do you struggle?
Why are you sensitive?
Why are you crying?

Your voice suddenly powerful
Continues thru the flood
No hell below us
No heaven above


You'll see
I'll carry the day
I'll carry it a long way

Out into my openness
That would never go away

She was young wild and free
Dressed bare and pretty

Singing with her ukelele

She said
Did you say, am I free?

Because she didn’t belong to anyone else
She was young wild and free

I was thinking I needed inspiration

She was young wild and free

I shook her hand
grabbed her tight
She pushed and smiled

She was young wild and free

Dark eyes and dark hair
Tomorrow she could be anywhere

In a dress
Singing
without a care
Pretty and bare

She was young wild and free