Sight’s no carpenter’s hammer
No quick dry concrete
It’s flimsy and topples in the breeze
Just because you feel it
Doesn’t mean it’s real
Feb 7, 2013
Feb 7, 2013 at 3:53 AM UTC
Outside, rustling feet and screaming
Kings of hills and peaking children
Hunting playmates like big game and now you’re it
Where’d you go? Don’t you know?
Time flies by like clouds passing in the sky
So hold on tight
Life’s a dream, realistic as it seems
Life is but a dream, suspended in disbelief
Like the first hand you hold and first kiss in the blind fold
But the veil has been lifted and with life we are gifted
I believed it then, so it’ll be like it’s always been
But where’d you go? Don’t you know?
Time flies by like cars driving by
One by one until there is none
So hold on, life’s just a dream, as realistic as it seems
Life is but a dream
Feb 7, 2013
Feb 7, 2013 at 3:52 AM UTC
Distance is a devil, paved with ash and beat up promises
That pours too frequently from tears to misguided melodies and minors
I remember all those nights at the foot of my bed
Strumming those chords and you sang so sweet,
Line after line, word after word
Honey it’s like living on the breeze and it carried me
Right into the back seat, oh how we’d scream our favorite words
After all they understood us, as if like books and they read us
Line after line, word for word
Now I don’t know where I am, somewhere stuck in-between
So I put your record on and as it spins and your voice spills out
You know I do too, I just get more confused
I thought you were singing those for me, little promises for me to believe
And now they’re all for the breeze
Line after line, word after word
Feb 7, 2013
Feb 7, 2013 at 3:50 AM UTC
She says, you can breathe if you want to
Lay down if you have to
Fall asleep only if you need to
But once you come around
We might not be around
You’ll be left feeling upside down
In a house that’s empty
Just waiting for anything to move
Get going put the needle to the groove
Kid you’ve got something to prove
You don’t want to be left out of the loop
You better get it going soon
Get it soon, get it soon
Well back up in your bedroom
There’s a book she lent you
You wonder if she knows you still have it
You wonder why she ever had it
Science fiction fable
Dolled up like a card table
Now fiction’s all you believe in
I’m just waiting to cash my chips in
But it’s less than I spent to buy in
Now I’m just left waiting
For lady lucks hand to come in
Knock on my door, come right in
Come right in, come right in
Now I, I breathe cause I have to
Lay down ‘cause I want to
And sleep ‘cause it’s you can do
When you know she's leaving you soon
Coffee and conversations
You used to pull the hair from my eyes
They were dry and now they're wet
And cryings all I'm left with
But where will I be
When my joy she leaves
Oh, please don't go
Well, please don’t leave me here
I want to hold you close
You used to clothe my heart
And now I’m just falling apart
Falling apart, I'm just falling apart
May 22, 2012
May 22, 2012 at 5:33 PM UTC
A feeling, an ocean and a dream to describe:
It’s another mid afternoon morning and the sunlight billows through the windows and pierces my eyes; they fight for consciousness and after some struggle with my two-ton eyelids, I managed to pick myself up and stagger off to the shower. Twenty minutes later, cleaned and clothed, I make my way downstairs to see what faces still linger in the house from the night before. With each step from under my feet comes a cold shrill scream; the nails, with a century of twisting and turning wiggled themselves free. With the slightest exchange of pressure, the nails give way and plunge back into the body of the stair from which they had escaped.
It’s quiet downstairs. There’s not a sound; no voices of laughter echoing from the floors and off of the ceilings, not a sound of friends or strangers’ feet as they scramble to rustle up their clothes and belongings from the night prior. I had grown accustomed to hearing this in the morning and in all honestly, I’ve grown quite fond of the array of faces that had made camp here for the night. Usually this means front row seats to a race track where they all spin and run into one another to get started on their endless lists of routines and obligations. For the lucky few who get to vacation rather than push papers on the weekend, this meant a new companion and hopefully a day of company. Unfortunately, today the house is hallow, so empty it could make someone dream.
After pacing the house for a bit, the stillness starts to settle in; the leaking faucet growing unbearably ever more predominate with a slow crescendo of slurred reminders, drip no one’s home, drip you’re alone, drip what are you going to do? Drip, drip and the deafening silence like a parasite is crawling its way up and under my skin. My feet and hands get restless so I grab my acoustic guitar and head for the door.
On the porch, I take refuge on the cool concrete and light a cigarette; as the cherry churns the paper burns slowly, mimicking the melody of minors strummed ever so softly. My mind starts to wander, slipping into its self, lofting away like the ribbon of smoke from the cigarette. How funny it is that the greatest of men and minds have achieved the unbelievable; they unraveled the wheel, the moon met man from a tin can, empires leveled by the push of a button and as a tired heart’s tick softens, a surgeon’s scalpel cuts open and easily replaces it. With all the trophies brightly polished placed on the mantle of man there is not a space for the trophy that is truly worth parading; a cure for emotions. Irony, like a well aged whiskey, drunken my humor and ferments my appreciation. As a disease loneliness infests like a tumor, endlessly growing. The thoughts that once retreated so easily at the first hint of war are now back, glowing with vengeance tailored with armies; and they’ve got me cornered, it begins.
I start sinking, farther and farther down, unable to swim in this brackish abyss; any attempt to kick my legs, swing my arms has become a day dream, perhaps its only momentary paralysis caused from my leap of faith from my raft of hope that in my mind I had been previously enjoying the warm weather and smooth sailing; until the vessel caught a flame and was swallowed by the ocean of despair.
The light that once danced all alone up on the surface has retreated from fear. My lungs now burning as they cling to my last breath, they swell with anger, splitting at the seams from the pressure of the ocean’s hand gasping my poor lungs, tension alone compressing my entire chest I can feel the sharp pains as they are growing nearer and nearer to exploding, I clench my already squinted eyes from the burn of ocean’s salt. In some last attempt for survival with my eyes firmly tightened, just as the water starts to creep its way down my throat into my lungs I can feel the water begin to thicken.
No longer sinking into the great void of salted rift tides but resting gently on a mattress of sand. With my back exposed, the sun quickly heats my sopping wet T-shirt, my bones fill once again with life. Have I, by some lottery of luck, washed up on the beach? Scrapping the sand from my eyes in pursuit to unravel this mystery, the sand has magnetized itself to pruned skin and drenched clothing. I clear my eyes to the best of my ability, I can still feel the sand gritting in the folds of my eye lids and after a few fresh breaths of air which fill my sore lungs with relief, I roll over to sit up and dig my feet deep into the sand. I look out shielding my eyes from the blinding sun with my hand. I look to the left and then the right and quickly darting back and forth from each position, there is no ocean in view. What was my inevitable aquatic ending has now vanished; no longer sinking but standing. I am alone in what has become an ocean of sand; a desert of wandering and mystery.
With the blistering sun and vultures circling over head as constant reminder that this is in fact real; I began to stumble about for shelter. After what seemed like hours of hurdles the moon flies high while the sun sleeps in the southern sky, I find myself under a cliff of overhanging rocks; sitting down the rocks are warm and almost caressing. This bit of refuge reminds me of my mother; as a child I remember straying from her in a department store. Unknowing then that she had not been tailing me like a blood hound, until I turned around and as far as I knew she had vanished from the earth. After sprinting and retracing my steps like map I see her, the site of her from across the store fills me with joy, still sprinting I run to her, eyes like a fountain they poured into her arms as she held me there in her arms; they were warm and safe.
A faint smile crawls its way onto my face and the same tears of relief rain from my eyes and floods the ground; the sand now flooded starts to move vigorously from side to another. Out of the mist of their rumbling out gets pushed a blade of grass, and then another and another one by one pull their way out of the sand to the surface; as the flowers start to blossom the slumbered sun awakes to a lush field of flowers filled with life. Within the field I move freely about, running in circles of familiar joy; the large sunflowers sway in the breeze of my arms as I run past them. The garden is beautiful with explosions of color all around held by peddles of flowers, and a small pond in the very center; a garden this perfect had to have been birthed by a gardener with the most beautiful of hands; Hands much like my grandfather.
Kneeling down beside the pond I splash some water with my hands on to my face to clear the filth from my pores. A gleam catches my eye from the mirror of the water, and I’m staring myself in the eyes. The pond isn’t reflecting what’s circled around me, but it’s reflecting me as a child, a bit older than the child crying for his mother; my face in the reflection, so precious and young just beaming full of life.
As if the pond were a movie screen the memory that had started to fade with age in my memory is playing crystal clear. I can see that little boy surrounded by familiar trees and flowers with the fields running farther than my eyes can see. That little boy is laying on the equally little wooden bridge that stretches over the little pond, my father laying beside him on the bridge with their heads and hands poking playfully over the edge of the bridge. Through the eyes of that little boy I can see a stick in hand trying to catch the nonexistent fish just as his father had showed him. My father looks down at me with a smile flooding his face as he says to me, “you know, Chad; I’m very lucky to have you, you’re all I could have ever asked for in this world. You’re a beautiful boy, a perfect son and I love you very much”. I remember watching a tear roll down the side of his face and watching it fall and disrupt the surface of the pond. Back on the other side of the glass; as his tear hits the pond the ripple breaks up the memory and just like the garden, the pond with the little bridge, my father and his sweet child; they all disappeared just as they had throughout my life. This time things felt different, not the cold touch of my bitter friend loneliness, but seeing that memory polished, shining new brings peace to my heavy heart.
A sharp sting burns my lips, the cigarette now burnt to the filter rips me back into body leaving the army, that ocean, the desert and the garden all behind. From footsteps behind me “I hoped I’d find you here”; I turn around and there she is, standing silhouetted by the sun, my angel. Charcoaled hair and island sky eyes, she had come to rescue me. “Hey you, I was hoping we could spend the day together; are you alright? You look like you’ve seen a ghost!” I smile and nod my head. “Aright then come on.” and with that no longer in the vantage point window watching, but through a door and living.
Apr 17, 2012
Apr 17, 2012 at 1:23 AM UTC
What is this we’re looking at?
Can we put it in a frame?
The fact that everything is our fault,
Is too much to bear
So we’ll pin it all on luck.
And you said; well, someone’s taking all the blame now,
But it won’t be me!
How do you expect me to get to sleep?
If I can’t keep my conscience clean.
Well if you’ve seen enough that’s haunting, love.
Just try and keep those eyes open wide, from
The dreams that are keeping you up at night
You know the one that makes you shake.
But if those eyes get hungry,
Oh and you know that they will.
Well news is on its way cause
The paper gets printed every morning,
And it will be waiting at your door
But before you go and read it, love
You should keep your nose from the page
Cause all that ink is poison and when it dries
It leaves the bite behind
And I don’t care what some column says
The stars don’t hold no future
Cause if they knew everything
They would know they were already dead.
So stop wishing on them, darlin’
They don’t know that they’re liars
and they’ll still sparkle at every wish that you make
But I know it’s hard to handle, love
When you learn that the truth was all lies
But there are some things so blatantly clear
That you cannot hide your ears from forever
And someday soon, they will hear
Well it might make me a monster, love
But I’ll stand in the sun
And I’ll put everything that I’ve done
Resting at my feet
And with my hands and my mouth I’ll scream you this song
Oh, just to grab your attention
And while I’m glowing over
What I’ve done
Then maybe you’ll see then
I’m not the only one
And that maybe we’re all monsters in our own way
I know, I know love it’s so disappointing
To say it out loud
Well my monster my love
At night we’ll hide under all the covers
And in the day light we’ll hide
deep in the closets
Cause that’s were we’re all living anyway
Mar 1, 2012
Mar 1, 2012 at 7:14 PM UTC
Morning's at my door
so I boarded up the windows
to hide in the dark light
and wait for the moon light
morning, I know she's there
I can feel it in the clean air
light a cigarette for an idea you can't protect
regret
for not kissing morning at her awake
as a stranger attend the wake
just watching her gasp for her last breath
as that sunsets
in my mind, thoughts unkind
mountains of mourning
meet in the valleys
and dance in the warm light
a desert of wondering
an ocean of drowning
the calendar has built a wall of insanity
not striving for popularity
a birthday and funeral for everyday
and somehow that's okay
Oct 31, 2011
Oct 31, 2011 at 2:00 AM UTC
I'm setting my alarm-clock
Earlier today
I've got class in the morning
Know, I can't late
If I am that Professor
He’ll say
Kid go away
Oh and by the way
You know what they say
Without a degree, you’re a nothing
So I guess when I get my degree
That means you have to listen to me
Yeah, Cause' I've got a degree
There’s so many things that we could all be
I don't know what suit fits me
Maybe I’ll get an art degree
So when I’m poor I can still see some beauty
Or maybe I’ll get one of those fancy business degrees
And I’ll learn to cut some throats and I won’t feel a thing
Because that’s business
And that's fair
And all my family
They all expects some bright and shining future
But I don’t know
If they've looked out their windows
Cause if you do, you know it’s pretty grim
You can see the trash in the street and sometimes that people
But it's okay, you can turn your head away
And laugh while you say, oh yeah, that's fair
And somehow that funny to them
But I can’t see humor anymore
Now that I’m in my house
My roommates turn to ghosts
I can see right through them
I can see everything their trying to be
No, I don't think that's funny
Nicks been up for hours
No, he's not sleeping
He’s all hopped up
On coffee and anything that comes with a warning
He says he’s got to finish this piece
Because now he’s got competition
I guess we all have competition now
How was I so blind to see?
While running into the ground
Somewhere he found a little bit of truth
I'd love to share it with you
That inspiration comes from pure desperation
And I can see it too
I don’t know about you
But I can feel it too
But I can't speak for you
No, I won't open my mouth for you
Oct 31, 2011
Oct 31, 2011 at 1:09 AM UTC
Stand up
Better say your prayers
Better pack your gun
Cause I'm bringing heat
like the sun
I'm going to sit you down
in your six feet seat
I hope you can see
your not worth the dirt
I'm going to bury you in
Everything you think you've seen
well that's your fault
Go a head and drink another glass
of your ****
But don't you know that the faces in the smoke
they are not real?
No, they aren't after you
You've become the fool
You've become their fool
but your not worth the dirt
you're already buried in
Stand up
Better say your prayers
Better pack your gun
Cause I'm firing down
like the sun
I'm going to sit you down
in your six feet seat
I hope it's comfortable
your not worth the dirt
I'm going to bury you in
Everything you think you've seen
well that's your fault
Go a head and drink another glass
of your ****
But don't you know that the faces in the smoke
they are not real?
No, they are not real
Hows that make you feel?
Hows that make you feel?
That your not worth the dirt
you're buried in
Oct 31, 2011
Oct 31, 2011 at 12:54 AM UTC
Seamlessly savage
In a race to be victims
Drown out the morning
And sleep while the moon's light
Drink down your sadness
Until your eyes fill with darkness
And you’re blind to see
Your miseries projected on a TV screen
Now you shake all alone by the bathroom sink
Hoping no to be seen
While the mirrors fantasize themselves
And they reflect what I expect to be honesty
Well honestly they want to see you on your knees
Drown in disparity
Cause they get off to what you've lost
No they don't care what is fair
Cause' they love, when pains in the air
So they can breathe it in
And repeat it again
Try and beat it
To fall short again
You’re seamlessly savage
In a race to be victims
Drown out the mourning
And sleep in the moon light
My sweet
Sep 29, 2011
Sep 29, 2011 at 4:16 AM UTC