Pray for other people
And you might sleep at night

The Earth is an ornament on the universal tree
Every time I see my reflection, it shatters into pieces
A long time ago, I placed the moon in my heart
Still never expected to taste so much salt
It's all blood and water in the end
From this view, the ocean looks red
But as the world falls around me
I am astounded, I am at peace
Morning dew, take me back to you
I can't conclude with another thought of you
So I'll focus on the jaded and tainted
Is a devil with no appetite a saint?
I hear fireworks ahead with some amazing graces
And I remember the days when I used to paint my face
In the mirror...Unforgiving mirror
On a starry night, would you cut your ear off
Just to create?

It's not a sweet sunshower
It's just a sour spring blur
I'm sipping on a wilting flower
With a dour devil who concurs
That all this sweating and shaking
Won't help bring home the bacon
And the everlasting shiver is making
My fragile bones crack with the quaking
Tell me what it takes to make this go away
Cause my ducts are dry and I can't cry today
Tell me what to do to make this life seem true
Cause this duck is drowning and the water's not as blue as me
All I have left is prayer, as they burden me with truth or dare
So show me the alchemy
Print me out the recipe
Cause I'm being eclipsed by the rain
Just like Layne

Strung out again
You string me along
Like popcorn on a piece of yarn
I'm falling off
I burnt the map
When I was a teenager
Curious of integers
Of pills and popularity
Now I'm hanging by a thread
Like Judas hung from the tree
A tarot of the number four
So what's the score
There's blood on
The sandy white beaches of paradise
I used to never think twice
Now I'm running in circles on Saturn's rings
That's the thing
I weep
A lot
At the most random times
That's why I'm forced to rhyme
And I'm asking you to stay
Please don't be
My needle in the hay
Like Elliot would say
I'm just looking for the pattern
In the mystery of my life
Cause even Jesus had a wife
So all you little ones
Before you ask for the devil's gun
As you sit on Santa's lap
Don't burn the map

People are the pulse of these streets
Providing your ego its interior of chrome
Reach out a hand and feel the heat

Your culture is alive with beat
Providing you diamonds and pearls, encrusted and sewn
People are the pulse of these streets

A worldly man all clean and neat
Doesn't help a child dancing with death to find a home
Reach out a hand and feel the heat

Your travels may have moved your feet
But did your ears hear the sad and universal moan
People are the pulse of these streets

You've plenty of barley and wheat
Why not give the nearby skeletons a helping bone
Reach out a hand and feel the heat

So if you have a chance to meet
A wandering stranger, remember the road alone
People are the pulse of these streets
Reach out a hand and feel the heat

Tangled in a web they spun for me
No fear or love, just curiosity
Hanging by a thread, all that I could see
Was a little child running straight through me

I fell down to the riverbed
Some kind of concussion on my head
I looked to the mouse, with its eyes of red
It said, “Relax, time is dead.”

Since then I’ve been turning decay into gold
While they all try to turn wine into blood
I guess I’m too brown for those above
I was made out of dirt, soil and mud

The sheep carried the bottles of Coke to the pyramids
The dog carried soda-pop to his master’s lair
Sitting on a chair
Standing in the sand
One big corporation runs all of this land
And the South has invisible clocks
And the North tends to live backwards
And the lens tries to look inside the heart
But it sees it only darkly
When will human nature be in the clear?
Two evils are at work, in the material world
Two evils are at work, in the caverns of our minds
But we forget to thank the burn-out, who’s right now
Pushing blue flowers of death into the wrong hands
Let’s hope someday he wakes up.

Faces echo
Death grips
Time warps
Memory slips
Dreams fly
So do the lies
No one goes
Where shadows roam
Beasts are we
In suits of suffering
Big big bang
God rose from nothing
Faces echo
Sheep with pride
To let them live
A lamb must die

The world is on a time loop
You missed the second coming
It already happened
You already lived it
But you had no followers
No one noticed your miracles
Not a penny in your pocket
Just the riches of the heart-
Invisible to the naked eye
So you fell apart
Born without a holy family
Created with a fragile soul
Gazing at the bird-like faces in the ancient paintings takes its toll

City of mystery
City of misery
City of lights
City of night
In tragedy and terror
We implore the skies
Seeking a sign of
Some god’s grand design
Is it the shadow or reflection
An ape or a robot
A wall or a mirror
A memory you forgot
City of misery
City of mystery
City of night
City of lights

You point to your third eye
And raise it like a rhino
But I only hear your song
I only hear your song

You dance on stage for pleasure
But I only feel pain
And I only hear your song
I only hear your song

I can see you
If only I could read you
I breathe with you
But somehow the air is different

It grows like a tree
But is it sorcery

They turn you on
They get you in
Until
You drop out of your own free will

The bright stars are celestial Buddhas that once were human.

Scars
Up and down her legs
Torn apart
Her nights become her days
Her nerves are dangling by a string
It takes all her courage just to sing
Until he took her hand and said
Your earthly body is temporary
What lies ahead and what lies above
Is a body more than heavenly
And it’ll be indescribable
And it’ll be divine
And it’ll be perfect
No matter what time your body goes
So don’t fear the skin you live in
It’s just a veil from end to beginning

Innocence lost at the cost of
Buying and selling pure
So we ingest and we forget that
Our souls are stained and poor
Can we please hold each other’s hands
And try to find the door
Cause all exits lead to loneliness
Laced with wanting more

Promises are made in silence
And they lack a rainbow
We need to decode our dreams
But there’s no St. Joe
Our strengths reside right here
But our hair won’t grow
We build our houses like fools
And tuck away our halos

We play follow the leader
And smash the tablets of stone
We’re earthbound in life
But nations we call home
Will God send his plagues
For the venom in our bones
If we don’t free ourselves
We’ll be erased from the tome

I blacked out
And all I saw was white
It was all too radiant
Next to the plastic lying around
He took me for a walk
The panic subsided
He on the hunt to look like my hero
Me on the hunt for a place to hide
His camera
His camera
He showed me his camera
He told me he took advantage
Like a crazed wounded man in need of a bandage
What was I supposed to think?
What was I supposed to think?
What happens to privacy when
The flood gates of a lens open
And you become a circus prize
To anyone who feasts their eyes
Like a drink before the plunge
Like a needle between the toes
Like ignoring your gut instinct
Like a slowly wilting rose
I just want forgiveness
For the drug still in my body
I beg and pray for mercy
For the drug still on my body
I just want high ceilings of endless sky
And bedside manner from the trees
And whispers of ancients on the breeze
And when I get lonely I’ll get down on my knees
I’ve got millions of questions pertaining to why
I got friends I’ll see in another life
I got false hope but it gets me by
And I run like the devil’s chasing me

Relics of darkness
Flood my mind
But under my feet
His light still shines
What have I to give
What have I to learn
What shall I believe
How long must this burn
Heaven’s in a scroll, or so we’re told
His word is the skin that never grows old
Rough thickets of thorns, I walk through daily
But so did she, the one called Mary
I’m waiting for the day
When red hot fire surrounds me
And I float up in a cloud, with daylight all around me

Midori trees and

Verde fields, no greenbacks on

Emerald Isle

I take a walk to ease my mind
But everything is a trigger
Old haunts, new taunts and still lifes
The abyss is getting bigger
(Every little thing)

I smoke a cig to clear my head
But images come as I stare into space
Ex-lovers, dead friends and hospital beds
I weep over an untied shoelace
(Every little thing)

Scattered my heart all over the world
Through my hallowed hollow dreams
To the right are the boys, to the left are the girls
Where's the middle where misfits can be free?
(Every little thing)

And I can't stop the pictures from entering my cranium
My subconscious pours out in waves
I  swear sometimes it has its own stadium
With an audience that needs an entertaining slave
(Every little thing)

And I see the man dropping bombs in the mail
Sending letters to the mayor to run me out of town
Like I haven't noticed that home has become hell
They want to exile the monster till she caves and burrows down
(Every little thing)

Wish there was a place where I could hibernate
Through the summer with its caustic sun
Maybe than I could find a mate
Within a candle, a pen and a gun
(Every little thing)

And while the sorcerer's do their voodoo, innocent and tragic
Breaking down cars and breaking down Houses
I hope they know there's a thin line between white and black magic
And if I have to, I'll bind you, even with a soul that's calloused
(Every Little Thing)

Cause only I deserve your weapons of harm
Leave my loved ones out of it
I know you think I live on karma's farm
But I'm on to your plans of my kismet
(Every Little Thing)

Every little thing,
From roses on the casket to jilted wedding rings,
From blooming flowers to ivy crawling up dead trees,
From the violence of love to the theologian's degree,
From a past with no clarity to a future on your knees,
I'm reminded of St. Augustine and the keepers of bees
And as the abyss gets bigger, I hope it will swallow my triggers.

Don't worry
It won't come without warning
We'll take care of you
Guide you through the storm
And if your thoughts are led astray
Just remember where you come from
We'll take the pain away
Put your mind at ease
Just look to the sky
See your troubles fade away
And when you come back down
You'll find your place among the squares
Why would we intend to do you wrong?
You're the ones that hurt and harm
So don't be scared at all
Stunt acts are fun
No need to sound the alarm
Simple policy and procedure
Just keep minding your business
And lose yourself in freedom
But if you happen to be present
Know that you were special
You were chosen as the chosen ones
And people will remember you
Don't worry
It won't come without warning
We'll take care of you
This is only a drill

Off to the moon in cement shoes we fly
And this is the art of getting by
We let loose our flaws, and worries subside
Our guardian angels are put on standby
As slippery hands and limp tongues arrive
At a place in this hell one could call paradise
Dear fountain of mercy, keep us alive against
The unforgiving vengeance of the night
Just let it last, just let it glide
Underneath stars that fade with daylight

Count down from ten
You stop at six
Three more years?
You’re running
A bus stops
Is it time for you to get on?

Had a bad fall today
I spread His words out like needles in the hay
Only wanted to solve mystery
But I stretched out beyond the limits-
You were nourishing me
So I pray, don’t let the passer-by trample me
Underfoot, don’t let me be a poor creature
Send an angel to put me back in my place
In the nest- where I can get some rest
Till I’m ready to fly
Till I’m ready to fly

Feathers on the water
Flown from the bed
There death rested
A pillow for its head

There goes another one
To the safe and special place
After drinking a cup
Of water
Don't say it's fate
Or it was their time
Cause the highs are always lows
The lows are always high
And we always peak the bell curve
Before we deep descend
Scurrying like little toy cars
Around the bend
Till it's just another morning
On a placid plateau
That's when death
Comes to say hello
So it can't be destiny
When we were getting better
We were getting better
They called it
An accident
But I know better

In a sense,
Some of us haven’t lost our innocence
Despite mistakes and age
Some of us still want to play
But by our own rules
Not the government’s or schools
Who want to exorcise our right
To exercise our freedoms
When we want the right to declare
Responsibility as sin
Instead of toiling in exchange for trouble
While the capital letters keep snooping and swooping in
We blow bubbles and dive in the mud
They can’t imagine our life story
Cause they never lived it
Someone must protect our soaring souls and wild hearts

In a sense,
Some of us have lost our innocence
But despite mistakes and age
Some of us still want to play

Love is overrated
Grit and self-loathing
Her parents loved her but
It never did her any good
She wants to love
But not be in love
The past and present are grey
The future is void
Divine fear of cosmic flavors
But she can taste them
Face deep, she can taste
What no one else can

I reckon I hear the call
Let's get lifted as we fall
Expose your soul as an innocent monster
It beckons to us all

You contain the kind of laughter that
Disguises many shades of tears
What happens when love is your master
Pulsing through your veins and years

Already walking in shadows
But you kept me in the dark
Looking for a familiar pattern-
A star, a scar, a spark

As I was wounded and hurting
Looking for dessert for the deserted
I lit a fire-
But it burnt the forest down

Now we are both sad clowns
Working our way through the wreckage-
Someone shuffled the deck
And all the hearts went missing

Skating in circles on a blank white canvas
A sliver sheet of paper on the universal tray
I look up to the antler branches and I mourn
I touch my head and feel a crown of thorns

On a diet of raw mud and thawed tears
In the wrong sort of spotlight for so many years
When will their perception see from greater heights
When will their shades of color return to the light

Not looking for a mate, I’m looking for me
What once was whole’s been cut by a thief
We must all be born, as little aliens
What happened to the white magic, please

Now I’m begging for some change and I’m starting to bleed
Blood falls heavier than tears, but both rest among the leaves
Now I’m begging for some mercy and I’m starting to believe
I should lick his salty tears and kiss his wounded feet

Praying to black holes in the sky
Hoping the guest star will become visible
A magnetic circle of stone in the moonlight
Everyone is clipping the church
Is their happiness hypnotic?
The very witching time of night
Will never see the birds in flight
Supernatural anxieties, atomic clocks,
Computers crashing, babies crying,
Ancient standing energy rocks
But who can blame the satellite
For mankind’s myths?

We’re above
You’re below
So here’s a flower
Let us pick your brain
And when you’re worthless
Curled in a ball
We’ll let you share your thoughts
Cause you can’t
Reach other worlds
Without losing your mind
And we need ours
To run this earth
It’s our reality
But yours lies somewhere
In a box
Made of white walls and stained sheets
So here’s a flower
Let us pick your brain
A sweet gamble
Worth a million answers
Cause adults should never play

Say a prayer as it goes
To your brain down from your nose
When will it come to a close
"When all my demons are exposed"

Listen carefully as the wind
That sends shudders to within
Gradually begins to grin
Even though you're bathed in sin

But then the high takes a bow
You forgot to live in the now
You were only focused on the how
Listen as the profane echoes drown
You in a whirlpool of cess
Consequences of excess
You're a bleeding carcass
You're an absolute mess

So I say a prayer to you
The one I can't refuse
The one I call my muse
The one and only excuse

I want you to make me feel mysterious
I want you to make me feel fearless
Both out in the world and in your arms
I want me to make you feel powerful
I want me to make you feel vulnerable
Both out in the world and in my arms

We both know, I'm too sensitive for my own good
We both know, you're too restless for your own good
We both know, our destiny is for the greater good

I need you to hold my hand
I need you to read my words
Both in the moment and out of this world
I need me to be your rock
I need me to be your muse
Both in the moment and out of the blue

We both know, we're both linked to the hex
We both know, on every level we connect
We both know, there's intimacy greater than ***

So let's not pretend
Let's bend the rules
Let's fend for ourselves
Let's amend our commitment
Create a home-school for love

Two places at once
Factories and farms
You conquered my city
With aid and with harm

Two places at once
How I wish I could be
Got over the night before
With champagne and herbal tea

Two places at once
Churches and dives
I conquered your city
To my great surprise

Two places at once
How I wish you could be
Right by my side
Not just a memory

Bruised feet
A fearful heart
To Him that can’t be comprehended
Are you still carrying me?
In debt 500 years,
Forgiven but assigned a horse
Another glitch in memory-
Which one did I chose?
Or do I ride them all?
1488 tattooed on a past life
3/23, and there goes 8 again
Strange ties to Elvis
And all kings
Is this the Holy Ghost or am I speeding
The lamb under the rainbow watches and waits
As the wheel turns into a halo

The void is formless-
Nothing that is something
An existence which is non-existent
Yet it has form
It appears grotesque like a monster
So we scorn it
We only love the beautiful shapes
We only understand symmetry
And still the void has a face
Limitless, lawless and free
A great heaven and a little earth were made
In great time, supposedly so
But this great heaven is unreachable
And this earth is the lowest of the low

This laser eye
Has a lazy eye
Cause not all's as it seems
But no one lives that way
And misery don't leave your system
As quick as all your vices do
The cat has a bone
But I trust it more than
The mouse or the dog
Don't ask me why
It's just a feeling
Just like misery not leaving a system
As quick as all the vices do
This lazy eye
Has a laser eye
Cause not all's as it seems
But no one is that way
Except for me
And misery don't leave your system
As quick as I have
But the cause is the cure
So the cure is the cause
A penny dreadful
Worth billions in gloss
Don't ask me why
It's just a feeling

When you look at me
All you see is a mess
That needs to be pronounced
So you talk in code
Thinking I don’t know
I’m the prey that needs to be pounced on

But if I had you in the palm of my hand
I wouldn’t crush you
Or put you under the lens
This soul is just not built for revenge

Yeah if I had you in a jar
I wouldn’t judge you
Or mock you from afar
I’d set you free to play amongst the stars

Yeah if the roles were reversed
And I was the blessing
And you were the curse
I’d come in last just so you could be first

But the birds are chained to the sky
And my heart’s tangled in webs
And while you’re out playing
I’m working on the dreams in my head

Cause all I ever wanted
Was to make someone like you proud
But at the end of the day
You go back to your friends; I go back to my cloud

Snake wrapped round my spine
Started crawling since I was nine
Guess I should have minded the gaps
Was too busy in the overlap
Inching its way to my brain
But its nestled by my heart
Still it skipped the first refrain
The other two it forgot
Now I’m walking crooked straight
For all the world I’m the bait
Deluded into thinking that
This is normal I’ll be fine
Guess in the grey meantime
I’ll discover roses blue
Everything else is red
Even colors are abused

Ax to the head
You make me feel like I’m dead
As the colors swirl into red
I lay myself down in bed
And you know exactly what you’re doing
Ax to the head
It makes me feel like I’m wed
And I remember the things you said
As I lay myself down in bed
And it knows exactly what it’s doing
Ax to the head
My brain is cut in two
So no matter what I do
Every sin feels like new
I don’t know exactly what I’m doing
I’ll never know exactly what I’m doing

Maybe you fell out of love with me
Maybe your one plus one equaled three
Maybe my love was too much to handle
Maybe the flame burned out of the candle
Maybe we wanted different things-
Maybe kids or wedding rings
Maybe it got too weird for you
Maybe my normal was your haiku
Maybe our love was disguised as lust
Maybe it was all a matter of trust
Maybe there was a lack of tears
Maybe we couldn’t vanquish each other’s fears
Maybe we were settling like dust on a floor
Maybe you were the window and I was the door
Maybe we both needed to breathe
Maybe that’s why one of us had to leave
Maybe our bodies were too quick to touch
Maybe the stars just weren’t aligned with us

Cells divide and multiply
It all leads to decay
Cause we entered time and mind
When we fell from grace
If only the world was just born
So I could feel everything as new
Everything including you
Instead I wake up with absolute dread
And absolute ***** in my head
The night’s silence is just too much
But I’ll bear it all if I only could clutch
A piece of happiness that belongs to the revelers of the streets
Maybe then I won’t feel so alien, so hostile, so incomplete
I created a void of deep loathing in me
And over the years the waters have gotten deeper
Why carry on in struggle and misery
Annihilation seems best
Annihilation I will confess
Until you pull me right out, into the Now
Until you push me right out, into the Now

I am a masculine goddess
I am a patriarch with an unborn child
I am a black sheep with the wings of a swan
I am not graceful, I am not ******
When you find me most amusing, I'll use you as my muse
When you play games with me, I'll pretend I don't have a clue
I am everything and I'm nothing
I know everything and I know nothing
I'm never in bloom; but I'm not the thorn you ***** your finger on
I grow like weeds, pretty in color, that you feel the need to destroy,
But I keep coming back
You try to stick me in maze while you harvest the corn
But I recognize the seasons of both sowing and reaping
I'm a crooked tree with branches reaching out towards the sun
I know the end will come, I know all things are one
Spirituality turns me on, and I can smell black magic a mile away
I know the art of getting by
And I know how to feed the fire with words spoken from a pure heart-
This is my gun with many bullets and only one chamber
This is me-
I live and die through each and every moment....
You can always visualize your revisions.
But you can't revise your visions.

In my mind the monkey battles
In my spine the snake rattles
I’m growing quills in my back
I guess, that’s when white turned to black
My memory is all in shambles
My legs are not allowed to ramble
My hands were built to tremble
My life is one big gamble
They say I’m not right in the head
But their dreams are pent to the bed
I guess, I’m a little bent
But they broke me with their wrongs

A snake was put behind bars
And now I see it everywhere
Plastered on everyone
Even on that which can't be grasped
We find value in being robbed
As we're robbed of our value

The blank page beckons
The sword pierces the soul
The friends become lovers
The lovers become gods
The monsters aid in evolution
The spirit grasps its revolution
The reflection lies but
The power of it makes us cry
The dead dog attracts the best and worst
The book of life is sealed
The temptation lies in something new
The old ways produce inexperienced sinners
The sleep you cling to was once death
The pursuits you follow are trivial
The world is a battlefield
The gutter is full

God held the world as it was spinning
An inside a child was there grinning
Indian-style he sat for a while
While an old man explained the beginning
He said:
"Don't be afraid
Fear is a just a game
Rigged for the souls
Who lust after pain
If you're not one of those
Then shudder you won't,
And if it happens you are-
Fear not the unknown
As when the chips fall
And rightly they may
Remember that everyone
Lands in the grave
Cause Pain is illusion
Life is but a dream
Time has no essence
Lies are what they weave
And we're not one of them
We'll resurrect
And no matter what comes after
Remember your laughter"

The leftovers you throw away
Unnecessary bills you pay
Nicks from a rusty razor blade
That’s what we’re made of
Broken beyond any repair
Exploited feet to heart to hair
Hoping at least the devil cares
That’s what I’m made of

All of those with head in hands
All of those punching pillows
We’re all fighting our own wars
In our own billows
So leave us alone

The devil waltzes into your dreams dressed like your heroes
As his demons do paint by numbers starting with zero
Or maybe it’s an angel disguised as your white lust
A messenger who gives you jewelry, diamonds, and dust
Quite possibly it could be God offering a promise ring
He silences the mighty and makes the meek to sing
Or perhaps it’s just a sad-man cloaked in all your myths
Here to give you a warning about the power of a kiss

You see the thing with dreams is, you never have a say
Of who’ll decide to sneak up, leave, hang or stay
Still all the players and the prophets come from your head
You seek up all infinity from the confines of your bed
But really all you’re doing is watching a short film
Of you existing somewhere else with different laws and limbs
So levitate or ******* or just create- it’s all the same
Every me and every you, a pawn in our own game

On a bed of air
With my head towards heaven
I’m on cloud nine
But my chart reads seven
The universe is giving me
A private dance
While all the world below
Stays in its locked trance

Step into a world
Where the heart rules over the head
You won’t be frowning on your death bed

Blowing in the wind
On tailor-made wings
Feet on the ground
But I’m not ready to sing
The universe is giving me
A tinge of romance
So please don’t wince
This is my chance

Step into a world
Where the heart rules over the head
What would you say, on your death bed

My shaky hands are unsteady
But it's ok cause the surgery's on me
And everywhere I see
People dropping bombs or dropping ecstasy
And I've done both
Guess my demon's got a degree
He holds my hand when I walk in shadows
And kicks me when I'm on my knees

My shaky heart is unready
But it's ok cause the love is on me
And everywhere I see
Helping-hand strangers and ignorant pharisees
And I am both
Guess my angel's got a diverse pedigree
She lets me hold the wheel in daylight
And jinxes me everytime I throw away the keys

My shaky soul needs a wedding
But it's ok cause the spirit's on me
And everywhere I see
Cheap plastic parties and celestial ceremonies
And I attend both
Guess my god's got a strange disease
It lets me make honey with the birds
And fly busted-winged with the bees

Falling into place
Is a smile upon my face
Finally
Not from fame or fortune
Friendship or freedom
Not even from love-
Perhaps it’s from above
The universal shove to try for nothing better
Cause it’s all happening here and now
The undone sweater, the sacred cow
The tattered feather, the broken vow
One last love letter before the bow
Everything is everything
You can’t take it with you
No need for alarms and only good surprises
Gravity is golden when it means your soul can fly
Lost and found
A celestial sound
A soft rebound one day at a time
The grand conspiracy holds answers
But only in a song-
Are we wrong to feel that where the light is is where we belong?
As the prophets dress in their Sunday best
And the rest wear denim
As the streets bleed venom
Who will pass the number test?
The few are stuck on eight
The rest are pining for nine
Building shrines of word and rhyme…
What is the essence of the institution of death?
The raven and the writing desk
The mystic warrior threats
The fisherman and his net
Look at the star and focus
It needs your sight to shine brighter
Drift like a kite and bounce off a sunbeam
Never knowing what it all means
Falling into place
Is a smile upon my face
Finally