Eve, the world blames she
She repented, the devil left
But then came seven more
Her seed became a scorpion
Her earnings became stone
Her aquarium, full of snakes
And now her children sting
And you can’t eat mountains
And serpents lie
Eve, the world blames she
She opened her third eye
But it blossomed into two
She longs to be a candle
To rid of all the stripes
But her reputation keeps creating
Mixed women who fear trees
Who has the power to cast you into hell?
Eve, the world blames you
Your joy lies in heaven
You’re not of this earth anymore

Disarmed me with your open fire
Pouring water in my cup
Then I decided to take a look
But it was too late
I drowned myself in my own disgrace
But how’d you put it in that vile
I’ll bet on all your empty smiles
Sludge and hugs and bugs and all that stuff
My brains of infancy
Have somehow kept me breathing
Got me some skinned knees
Perhaps from all that praying
I’ve still got no clue, just as Elliot said
Only scraps of photos from your bed
Sludge and hugs and bugs and all that stuff

You cry tears of water
I cry tears of fire
Maybe a little blood and dust mixed in
Crack in the ice
Crucify the dishonest
Collapse into infinity in one little bedroom
Curious and curiouser
Animals begin to talk
About the shapes and colours of souls
The higher you climb
The more you want to sing
So grab a ladder and join them if you please

It was the longest of days
It was the shortest...
Spring is blazing dull
A fire pit of icicles
Brutal suggestion in the day
Gentle persuasion under the moon
Crippling voices turn to static
As bodies melt in heat
As bodies melt in sleep
Spin the hands on the clock
Like you spin the bottle
Smash it on the floor
As you blow a kiss to Saturn
Avoiding your reflection as you
Walk upon the shards of daggers
Just like you ignored her mouth
While kissing her lips of poison
Never changing with the seasons
Just adapting to the temperature
Of a soul the color of chaos
Of a heart with no price tag but massive debt
Laying out bread crumbs
With words as your bait
Like a senile, crooked tree
Trying to divorce its fate

Are you ready to come in
Learn to swim
Or are you in on it
I feel Pele
Inside of me
Raging like the waves
Penny for my thoughts
At what cost
Piggy bank overflowing
Not enough time
Not enough rhyme
Too much furniture
So I strike the flame
Take back the name
Peel the layers with a pen
Cause it's cheap to be sane
When you're in the game
Where's the envoy in this cosmic bend

You picture your Jesus
In white and red cloth
I picture my Jesus
In black and red flannel
Raising a fist in the air
Just happy to declare
His own independence
Cause being on your own
Doesn't mean being alone
Let's burst the bubble and say
The only friends you have
Are imaginary
And if you've never got lost,
What luck
But if you haven't, you will
And if you have, good riddance
To the normal ways
Don't you see
They'll sell you bright colors in youth
And pastels when you're old
The ease you feel will flee
Once your life is fleeting
Buy me,
But don't explore me
A slow cyanide
I say, steal what you want
I have something you can't ****
The will to live
A beating heart
If you want me dead so bad
Why don't you start
Pulling pistols
Like in the old west
A grudge is over in seconds, there
But your holy sacred shrine
Is built on something pseudo-divine
You've seeped in
And I'll carry you
Through every untamed gesture
Every loud noise
You're just strapped in
On my ride
We're all just trying
To swallow the water
And spit out the ashes
Tell the truth,
I dare you

To get together, you wind your watch
But time only exists when you stop
You pause and collect all thoughts you forgot
Add them up on your mathematical clock
You spend all your hours hypnotized by TV
But the outside world don’t like you drugged
Tambourine man’s stuff is laced and empty
You lose your edge every time you turn the key
The beast called rock and roll’s in your bloodstream
The twirling snake just turned into a tree
The magician’s waiting with a sign-up sheet
The herds of birds are flocking to the scene
And there’s a door in your dusty ceiling
God and the devil are playing poker there
You tend to meet both in your fragile dreams
Which one is which, just flick the light switch
When did being happy get weird
Beneath the moving clouds and the fixed stars
In your heart you know there’s something better
But never mind, I’ll see you at the bar

It's over my head but not out of my mind
Cause I know the real clock doesn't tell time
And you Judas'd me with a Jesus smile
It's never out of my head but always over my mind
Will you ever bring me up to speed?
Cause it's something I desperately need
And maybe I could understand your creed
The blood's different, but we all bleed
The same
And I know I'm to blame
I know
I know, I know nothing but the flame
So every time I light a match
I take a wild guess
You were supposed to be my guest
But you hosted a virus with your head on my chest
And I don't know the rest
I know
I know, I know, I know nothing
Yet.

A giant was killed by his little friend
Bang bang, the vessels burst
And as the former faded fast
The second, his brain went dead
A black vacuum came
And all their atoms shot out fireworks
They were reborn in different form
One of their cells a cyan sphere
Bouncing through the veins
And as the new creature weaves a blanket
For its cold, lonely lap
It ****** a finger and species perish
While the rest stay trapped

On the wings of illusion
We fly with two feet on the ground
Disturbing harmony
Traverse erratic paths down
Life is an omission
Exile is the way home
We see through the glass darkly
It eclipses our halos
The constant cravings
The endless urgency
The dissonant clash
The tragic emergencies
Competing with noise and
The hungry heart’s gorge
The rattle of death and
The raw body forged
Longing more to be liked
Than to love and be near it
We can’t see God because
God is a spirit

It must be hard
To find faults in yourself
As an angel
Tell me what place you go
When the moon sweeps her
Magic carpet tide
Have you ever possessed
The sad luxury
Of being on my level
Tell me please
I want to go where you go
But it seems I’m not allowed
Banished from the place
I’m just starting
To call home
I’m just starting
But your looks say I’m done
All the joy has been ****** out
Of everything I could
Barely hold on to
Help me please
I’m just starting

In a packed room
Full of hipsters and vampires
You know they're one and the same
So we coat our balloons with the poison
So they can't **** the source from our wet veins
And I know we might not understand each other
But in this crowded place, I'm ok
As long as I'm next to you
It doesn't matter if the night ends red or blue
Cause we both know it's just the peel of the orange
And we both know there might not be a tomorrow
So you can go on your quest
And I'll make my final request
For both of us to possess
Another friendly caress from a stranger
Nevermind the danger, the whole world's a mess
But in this crowded place, I'm ok
As long as I'm next to you
It doesn't matter if the night ends with sand or glue
Cause we both know it's just the peel of time
Our heads hold the reason, our hearts hold the rhyme

Temporary satisfaction
Split my soul into factions
My love for him is a fraction
Compared to this guilt reaction
And now hatred spreads
Like the fear here in this bed
Now a demon grows instead
Of the peace held in my head
Tangled to the tree
Powerless and “free”
Tangled to the tree
With a million souls to feed

Just do it
The world will be a better place
To be strong is to be weak
Tomorrow is just a phase
They hate your guts
And they hate your outsides
So easy to attack
When the cause seems justified
Oh, no
The outsider stands
With his heart and his eyes in his hand
They talk in code
They call you a boy
When bodies change
Souls become unemployed
Well, speak that word again
And I might just fall off the face of the earth again
You're positively 4th street
And when the doors meet, I see
Charlie Manson eating strawberry ice cream
And when will the colors bleed
Oh, yeah
The outsider stands
With his heart and his eyes in his hand
Bad vibrations coming from
Every corner of a compass
Didn't know life was a contest
Don't want to be an object
Don't want to compete on the world stage
But as always, all I've got is this page
And a dead dream- there's a hole in the clouds-
I see it floating

Sacrificed for national healing
Head on a plate
Checkup from the neck-up
Mother, Mother,
They're washing my brain again
Implanting discs where wings should be
Put a gun in my right hand
Left me with a pill
Their quick and ***** ****
Cleans you out so slowly
What a wrong sensation
For their righteous slay
Gained a middle name
And no more summer rain
Will hit my roof again
Fell for their cruel nature
Sprung from lack of nurture
People never notice anything
And I'm caught in the rye
Live in the moment
Do what you please
One might destroy you
But a worse disease
Is strapping the harness
And losing the keys

I'm fainting
As the spirits **** me dry
An essence not had in so long
An essence must be a heartbeat, then
All possessions are rusted
All clothes are ragged
And still they paint me as queen *****
Ungrateful, unrepentant
Twisted little witch
Daughter of a place
Both cursed and blessed
Where lovers want to **** me
For they despise me
And yet they still call themselves lovers
Who just love a mess
He was scared to death when he flew
But the wind was constant there
And he didn't fly alone
He took me captive and made me sing
My song gave him a home
And the hill becomes a plain
That the mountain people
Love to trample on
They won't quit till the mountain and she
Becomes one

I've been harpooned by your love
Sent to outer space with your smile
You've got more stamina than any planet
You've got more life than these pair of doves
I just set free
And I set them free for you
Cause they shouldn't call it falling
When I'm flying in love
Anti-gravity with you
Is better than a drug
You break the law
Without being wicked
And so,
I become your backbone
When you have no spine
I become your lifeline
When you need more time
And still if you choose to die
I'll help you die a beautiful death
My wire-walker
I'd fall for you, any day in any way
Ropes are bound tight
But I believe in you
No matter how much they try
To sway us
I'll never betray us

If you took a picture of me
And really looked closely
You'd see the demon on my back
Pushing down so heavily
He's always in the shadows
But when I try to bring him to light
He freezes like a frightened gargoyle
And I keep trying to reach that portal
Where the magic rabbit with one eye
Takes me by my hand
And guides me through all my disasters and accidents
With him I can crush bronze
Close a school
Expose the truth
Be ruthless
Instead of this wet, sensitive mess

Coffee in a teacup
Hard-boiled egg
Remote control
Squeaky chair leg
And a butterfly pillbox filled with red white and blues

Watch the uninspired TV
And become a pathetic ghost
Excuse me while I implode

I wrote a check to Mother Nature
But it bounced
Strip the city of me
You’ll find nothing to envy

And when I die in my dreams
My eyes become the milky way
My body is a tree
With my mind and heart branching out towards heaven

A darkened sun
A lightless moon
And not enough wishes
To claim the stars that fall
A shakey heaven
A blackened earth
But not enough lies
To eradicate His words
A sacrificial trip
Through the wormhole and back
And not enough witnesses
To testify the savior
A million Fausts
Stretched out on the highway
And not enough devils
To do their ***** work

***** bare feet
Doll parts
Flares and big bang crunches
Skeletons in our closet
But we're two among the living
Two among the dead
With you
I can't hear their motives
***** snow *****
A night
Harlot star is in a coma
Now

No time to be shallow living in the land of
Polka dots and permanent shadows
No time to be hallowed
Apparently I’m built too hollow
As they fasten wings to just about anything
But my tomorrows
One moment with a funny look
And I’m locked to forever
On the couch
The gaping hole inside settles
In the dark it fills with time
It’s always swallowing clocks
Strip it all away, the hole remains
Strip it all away, the hole remains
Filter sifting, sorely drifting

Angelic minds deflowered
By the ice cream in hell
Now master becomes servant
With sandwich board and bell
No one wants damaged goods
They’ll put you under a spell
Of shame, flames, and runaway trains
And secrets not to tell

Fall back into the rhythm, love
Fall upwards to the sky
Forget the sword and rose, love
Your heart will get you by
Fall forward into sin, love
Rise downwards to the earth
Forget the author of these words
Your death triumphs your birth

Devil plays whisper down the lane
Jump, drown, crawl or don’t remain
Meanwhile back in my own brain
I’m eating grass and drinking the ocean

Devil makes everyone the same
Reciting verse from books of Cain
Meanwhile back in my own brain
I’m flying without wings in motion

Devil’s play is always work
Recruiting souls who love to hurt
Meanwhile the last me becomes first
A subtle, strong and strange old notion

Devil’s roots are in the dirt
Making all our dreams inert
Meanwhile my heavy heart it burns
A side effect of earthly potions

Devil has gardens full of weeds
Where one plus one equals three
Meanwhile I’m down on my knees
Suffering the world for my devotion

There’s this black cloud that follows me
Wherever I go
It drains all of my energy
It likes to do it slow
It’s been so long since I’ve seen an outcome
When all I want is the last straw to come
So I can be completely undone
Neil said someone would come to rescue
Thom said to wait
If we all breathe the same air
Why so many worldly tastes
There’s no splendor in the grass round here
It’s only lies
I stand without a cloak and dagger
But they all have a disguise
It’s been so long since I’ve seen an outcome
When all I want is to be undone
Waiting for that last straw to come

I don’t belong here
This artificial paradise
It drugs and kills me slowly
People bring out the worst
Fear lives in my blood
The sweetest fruits are rotted and empty
Tradition reigns but roll away the stone, I say
Give the secrets to the low and poor
Feel the world rumble beneath the sun
Let us test each other
My heart burns, not with desire but a scorching hope
That lost memories will find a home
In the gaps in between all our veils and the unseen
My heart thumps at a sign of sincerity
Sensitive and numb, that’s me
Words crush but I rather feel those blows
Then hear your whispers of rumors, slow
Do you see the caves crawling up my mind
Can’t you see I’m just like you
But on borrowed time
Do you see the webs clouding up my head
Can’t you see I’m just like you
But a little more dead

Torn out of heaven by my friends
To see a boy about a girl
Falling asleep to a backwards sun
Are the rulers of the world

So gather two of every animal
Holy Ghost you should clutch
We’ve been christened with fire
So hell wouldn’t hurt as much

And the dreams we forget
Tend to hold the keys
To a place found in death
That overshadows memory

So gather two of every animal
Holy Ghost you should clutch
We’ve been christened with fire
So hell wouldn’t hurt as much

He was born on a day when the sun didn't rise
And the birds laid eggs that didn't hatch
Little did he know, it was all a disguise
Till he awoke in a strange pumpkin patch

There he found creatures, they all were afloat
Like jelly beans flown into space
They were different in color, like Joseph's coat
But all were extinct from the race

One day he found a dragon tree
And in it dragon's blood
He went to tell his friends, with glee
Until it landed with a thud

Free of love and void of hope,
He hated where he was
No one had the courage to cope
And only answered, "Just because"

One day he met a soul like his
And asked, "Why were we sent to this place?"
His twin answered, "The secret is this-
But close your eyes- just incase"

The boy shut his eyes, and waited in vain-
What he saw shook his insides
He saw himself a mortal, slain
In the place he currently resides

From then on, he thought, "What if?..."
"What if I was born on a day when the sun did rise?"
Eventually, he awoke from his dream
And realized he never opened his eyes

I watch the moon die and resurrect like a god
I count the ripples in the bark, the trees outlive us all
If only each person could be his or her own myth
Avoiding nets of gravity, a universal tryst

Only one can wander, two must go somewhere
Sleep for twenty years, six of a dream affair
Forget all the systems, live just to create
Propagation is a lie, we each have our own fate

All the answers we’ll never have
Locked inside our hearts
All the answers we’ll never have…

People want to walk on crystal clouds
I give them gravity
People want to cross the gate
Moses parted the Red Sea
People want to live forever
I bring them death and disease
People want to be invisible
I give them eyes to see

People want to be united
I part them with the oceans
People want an elixir
But Jesus had no potions
People want to find meaning
I bring them no notions
People want to create
I give them emotions

People want logic
I bring them the absurd
People want music
Angels bring them songs unheard
People want to know the universe
I just give them planet earth
People want to be free
They just have to say the word

My heart's been recycled
My heart's been put in the trash
My heart's been used and abused
My heart's been traded for cash

My veins have been poked and pricked
My veins are green and blue
My veins form a weird omen shape
Like a death-eater's tattoo

I used to have quick reflex
Could catch flying objects
Now all I can do is text
Under technology's hex

I used to be normal
Till someone took a picture
Now defined by the mystery down under
Defined by a strange tincture

My skin has been burned and scarred
By accidents, aging and stress
My skin covers up my skeleton
But it crawls every time I get undressed

My brain has something wrong with it
My brain is the cura and the curse
My brain's been scanned, fried, almost lobotomized
My right-brain is the drunk co-pilot, my left brain's in my purse

I used to be wild and vain
Now I'm sensitive and insane
In this trade-off what remains?
Flesh wounds for angels' slain

To be with the prince of the air
You need muscle, bone and feathers
Wings of freedom, limbs of grace-
A sky realm once called heaven
But to get a little higher up
Into outer space and beyond
You need a foolproof space helmet
To wave the astronaut’s wand
But to get to the third realm of heaven
Is a bit more difficult and slow
But might be easy for a few-
All you need is a halo

I'm quite the fickle traveler
But I like to take it easy
Don't give me air
Give me treetops and towers
And I'll trickle between
The dead and the living
Till I sense your salty skin
So give me a break
Your hearts and your heads
Are not this fool's mistake
Cause unlike your race
Of desires on high
And telephone lines
And indoor beaches
I just want to touch down
Touch ground
Dig in with my fork
A simple lobotomy
That keeps you unscorched
And still they want to catch me
A substitute for fire's torch
So I'll make true your myths
Of ominous hues
And day after day
Give you bolts from the blue

You may hold dominion over me
And if you strike me once, I’ll lend the other cheek
My gaze meets the winged insects halfway
While my brain waits to tell me how to behave
As raindrops race across the window
I fall into a cocoon of sleep
My dreams are wrapped with umbilical ribbons
And heaven still shines bright in the deep

The tree of life
Should be my third eye
Instead it’s a clock
And every time
I close my eyes
My dreams run amok

From first to last,
Put a veil over the middle class

And as I advance
In God’s circle dance
I’m aware I’m about to go under

Holding hands
While they make their plans
To remove Him from the middle

No footprints
No blinking
A child and an old man
Bringing bodies of poverty
To wealth of the spirit-
If only we could understand

They deal in bodies
It’s a roll of the dice
But at the end of it all
The womb is paradise

Spit the food into my mouth so I can swallow
Leave a billow of smoke rings for my pillow
Let me hibernate under the unforgiving sun
Let me be a simple person in my next incarnation

As we light our cigarettes, let's make a pact
To be the duet that no one can forget
You can promise me fairy-tales, butterflies and moonbeams
I can promise you to be no one else but me

Eat the mosquito's eggs so I can swim in the pond
Leave me alone when I have headphones on
Let me pollinate my mind whenever I want
Let me be a secret, open book- like the chosen one

As we toast to the big empty sky
To be a surprise of only the good kind
You can promise to love me even when I'm a train-wreck
I can write you songs that give a pleasant tingling to your neck

They say you ought to fight fire with fire
They say you ought to be a good man
They say you ought to be strong and simple
They say you ought to do what you can
So I ride in stripes of green and white leaves
I ride in stripes of golden brown sands
I see in shades of red and blue lights
I see in shades of ***** amends
They cover their mouths with thin scarves and drag
The speak in weird tongues; we speak with a flag
They hide weapons well, while we reveal none
Unless you consider, at our side, a gun
And a tank, combat boots, a vest and grenades-
Our own little pretty artillery arcade
So we shot a few kids, a few wives, a few cattle
That's the price you pay in a battle
It's a part of our bodies, we do as we're told
It's them or us, no fuss, no time to be bold
So we "breathe easy," hold tight, take aim and fire
We try to forget our at-home desires
We remember our fathers, and those who died well
We remember our wives, and loves we didn't tell
We remember our home, and all we've worked for
We remember our country and all those in war.
It's part of our minds
"Be all you can be."
Shut up, stand down
Get on your knees
Always fight the good fight
Fight fire with fire
Leave all troubles at home
And don't cut the red wire

The pack is gone
Both my crutch and my friends
The stove is not as hot
As this grudge on my head
So I’ll retrace the string
Back to its liquid source
Curl up in bed to wither
Of regret and remorse
Or I could go anywhere
Pull my records to my chest
Use my curls as a pillow
And drink myself to death

The ocean is red
The sky is red
The earth is red
We are red
Our souls are burnt, scorched
Like everything under the sun
But He, She, It is blue
How can we get closer?
Everything inside of us is all around us,
From the depths of the oceans to the heights of outer space
Our blood stains the asteroids before they hit,
And the rocks become the Dirt we stand on
The birds wear a disguise as they echo in song
Maybe this disguise is a symbol
Even the birds leave their free but empty skies,
Tumbling back to earth,
As we pray on our knees to a symbol
Maybe this symbol is grace
And human language is raw nature
When nature and grace collide,
Can this destruction bring forth creation?
Is our world the child of grace and nature,
Swaying always slightly towards damage over peace?
We are the new dinosaurs,
Eating plants and eating meat
In our deepest caverns we dream of frozen waterfalls,
Waiting for our true selves to bubble to the surface
Then the volcano erupts- and we’re back to the caves,
Playing with our singular shadows in the dark
Can’t we explode into the light?
Our energy instead goes to the hole,
The hole we dig from the moment we slide out
The cells, the craters, the planets- the holes
The ocean is blue
The sky is blue
The earth is blue
We are blue
But He, She, It is red
How can we get closer?

Soul mates
Are stolen crates of wishes
Forget love letters
Forget drug & *** woos
All we want is a friend
Funny how friend is now taboo
Pick a pocket full of daisies for no one
No one wants a pocket of something that dies
Yet we all die
We all perish
So why does it matter what we give
As long as we give freely
Instead we take cheaply lavish
And shove it in our pockets
Of bed-posts, of lamp-shades
Of never-seen river-glades
Where we bury the bodies
Of souls we never knew
Never took the time to
Never had the mind to sense
All these warning bells and chimes
Could never recompense
For time spent
For words lent
So cheaply
We've grown so cheaply
Accept a videotape
Watch the actions
Ignore the lips not moving
Watch the actions
Ignore the edits
Watch the actions
Miss the key plot
Sleep through it
Too busy dozing off
You've missed it
We could've had it all
If only we had time
But we missed it
Me one moment off
You a lifetime

The gods beckon you to join the party
But revelry waits in dark corners
The Gardener of Eden is displeased
And now you’re flying without wings
The naked and cunning never feel
Pressure from above
For the rest it’s almost unlivable
Psychic earthquakes blur the love
Will there be sympathy for the serpent
When the future dies?
As Lilith rises in rebellion
Far from normal in his eyes
It feels like liquid diamonds
But it’s Hotel California
A 50-50 shot
A flip of the coin

Music is the foliage of the soul
Imperfect and irreplaceable
Two different unconnected people
Linked in time to one strange vessel
The ants watch the stars
Cause the stars need attention
To shine a little bit brighter
Make night a little bit lighter
Sigh your last breath
Breathe your first sigh
Space is not the final frontier
Soon these lows will become highs

Day terrors and inside jokes
They’re the ones that love you the most
They cast the net
You learn to forget
Wonder if it’s the same coast to coast
It’s a grave situation
Enslaved in a smile
Honesty can’t be seen for miles
So what do you do
The past never feels new
The future feels fruitless
Your soul’s black and blue

But it has to get better
Cause even hate rusts
The dust in the hourglass
Never moves fast enough
And if you were a teacher
You could teach pain
All the heartbreak in the world
In every single drop of rain

He put his foot down
But I wasn't turned on
I looked him in the eye, both feet on the ground
But he stood strong
Not trying to toss him over
Like the wind
I guess I'm trying to win him over
With swimming lessons
And Hollywood wouldn't take him
But it did in its own way
Now he's off running with the bulls
But I was never the matador anyway
Still, doesn't he know
That I reach for the bottle
Cause it shows too much
And he's leaving full throttle
I guess I lied before
Never could plant my feet down
He watered me until I grew
Now he's leaving town
Jesus, erase this strange gravity
That makes me foam from the mouth
And howl like a dog
In the fog of his shadow
Doesn't he know,
I get ****** up
Because I am
****** up
But what color is showing, now
Cause orange is all I see
As I'm on my knees
But Saturn won't stop the bleedin'
It's the cause and the cure
But I'm a sore Buddha
And he thinks she's cuter
So put me out of my misery
Cause with you I felt free
And when it comes down to it
All the drugs and the ***
Didn't make me feel a thing
That was real
What's the deal
With this unspoken fear
I can't even cry
But I wanna scream all night
But I know you'll push me away
Like the other day
So please, let me be your last DJ
I'll put on a song
That'll make you hum along
And maybe you'll remember me that way
Not as the sprout that never
Became the bean
Not as the lout
Who never grew wings
Not as the south as it looks
From a vampire book
Not as the house
That fell on her stockings
It's not the sound of you walking away
It's the sound of you knocking
In my mind, all of the time
Can't stop the cling and clatter
As the rain pitter-patters on my
Window pane
You were my superman
But I was never your....
I guess I'm asking for rescue
You hold the cards
But never read my cues
And if this were a movie
We'd be hitched already
But I won't think her a *****
If with her you go steady
Just promise me
You won't creep back in my life
After I've set fire
To all of the memories
But don't you worry
I'll build a fortress around
All the love and the sounds
That pulled you close to me
Everything happens for a reason
What a sour season
But just in time for the moon to devour
Both of us in our final hours
So take me serious next time
Say goodnight, not goodbye

When you’re young
It’s to kingdom come
And one plus one
Equals lots of fun
But counting the years
On trembling fingers
Gets you nothing but a
Loaded gun
And a thought that says
“You’re alone here honey
But somebody up there digs you still”
As rain falls on the windowsill
You realize that the flowers
Will bloom again, they have that power
But unlike them you won’t come back
Strung out on dreams of suicide
And poems about rivers that find the tide-
If only they could find the time

You put me into a state of emergency
Announcing the funeral of my youth
In my bed the pillow’s hard and stiff
My mind is alive and aloof
With thoughts both dangerous and real
Reading minds is not surreal
But a scary task to conquer
I can tell from her screams this is serious
I keep that naïve melody to put me to sleep
But it does no good- the wails still creep
Into my bones, which ache like a lost diamond in the deep
Then a man who pretended to be Jesus read my mind
And I came undone- who are these people under God’s sky
Strangers they all were but not strange enough for me
In that area I reign queen
So I think about the passing time
And if I can’t be myself I’m better off dead
How dare you attempt to get inside my head
The caverns are too dark and deep
They alone put me to sleep
I’m weary, waiting for the day when I can say
“This must be the place.”

My eyes walk the tightrope
In the shadows of a dancing flame
This feeling is fresh and fleeting
I know nothing will ever be the same
It's the pure and ***** black clean
It's climbing up a dying starbeam
It's the difference between a wish and a dream

(Back against the wall
Awaiting the crucifixion
Feeling the thunder and tasting the bolts
Listening to Band of Horses' diction)

Faces
Nameless
The regulars come and go
Telling their stories slow
Drinking away their woes
That come and go
Stimulating conversation
On a brain that’s buzzed
Wipes away the rust
Foot-tapping on a floor of dust
With a pen, a napkin, and a glass
Time doesn’t move too fast
If only the thoughts could last
Seeing the future for the past
Familiar but not friendly
The bartender thinks
As he pours another drink
In a room that sinks
Faces
Nameless
The regulars come and go
Telling their stories slow
Drinking away their woes
That come and go

Dark River,
On you I used to skate away
In you I used to fade away
Maybe that's why I ran away

Did you marry
Is she an artist
A fortress of stardust
Is she a music woman
A laundress
Is she a worldly adventurer
A card-shark
She must contain more than
The average alarm
To get into your arms

Dark River,
I miss you

They say the more you know the more you suffer
How does this apply to the invisible man
The rebels had their day, funding all their movements
How does this apply to what we don’t understand

They have us writing with an inkless pen
As they offer us slave women draped in violet
But all we want is a dark, dark room
To be alone in all our violence

If only we pursued our happiness-
But the world would fall apart
The strongest arm stretches the bow
The stars left behind just depart

Stand up on your toes if you want to see the future
Grasp all the knowledge from the forbidden tree
Talk about Beethoven as you interrupt their prayers
Seek up that monster who only sleeps to dream

The line for the ladder is longer than the world
But skip the elevator, just take the stairs
Try to do what seems impossible
Fixing what’s broken beyond repair

The meter is ticking, so thank your lucky stars
Don’t fantasize about glory, just ride the twirling tide
Respect all the animals, they’re perfect in themselves
**** man the hunter, ‘less he hunts his own kind

A part of me, set in stone
But cast away, reasons unknown
A piece of clay, molded to slow
A tree with firm roots, not allowed to grow
With blood comes knowing
But lack of understanding
With grace comes showing
But lack of a purpose
I see no pain, but a settle to score
I see no wool, but the wolf's at the door
I want no conflict, just live and let live
I need no lies, just the right to forgive
Have I let down, with my worries and woes?
Or have I pleased, with my constant lows?
In revealing, there's always light
But not when you're blinded by the dead pleas of night
It isn't something I would wish for just anyone
It isn't something I can control
While others aim to strike at what's coming
I yearn to grasp what's already known
You can't expect a fool to change overnight
But you can't expect a soldier to stand and watch their plight
If you could only get inside my head
You'd see I'm just like you, just a little more dead
Do you wish I was gone? Will that fill the void?
No more blank stares, green eyes, questions of why?
Would you rapture all I had, just to feed your crop?
Or would you sow my memory in a place that never rots?
People change, or so they say
But I can never feel like me, when a day's a year away
I'm sorry for the burden, I should have left a time ago
But when seeds are sowed, heaviness bears so, that time doesn't forgive