Midnight Express
No more no less?
Forgot my stop
But then I found
Don’t fall asleep
Because you have to keep
Your eyes open all around
If the greedy
Are just the needy
Who could never hear the sound
Then shut your eyes
And listen for
The colors from the ground

The same I heard from everyone
Don’t fly too close to the amber sun
Melted wings are never free
But I know where I need to be
A train of thought and life too fast
When I feel my jump wouldn’t make a splash
Tied me down and kept me in
Safety from a gripping sin
Fulfillment and a comfort house
From the others who would drag me out
See me tried
Crucified
Terrified and so denied
But not just yet
Still I can be
But never what you are to me
Could not convey
Nor words portray
Those wings were an angel’s
Who chose to stay
So flying, yes
A borrowed mess
And feeling how you’ve left me blessed
Counting my days
Made each worth living
You mean the world
I love you

Fire. Replacements.
Issues? Productivity.
Decision in order, severe
Raising questions
Consumer, retailer, associates
Market based.
Will not reveal
Range for their role
Earn, risk, deflating, left behind
Probably thinking they don’t have a future there
Do these questions offend you?
Hourly workers, open positions.
We have and continue to control what’s next
Stiff competition, corporate struggle
Watchdogs fail
Demoralized

Memories and stop signs
This is a moving train
They took it away
Who are you?
And me?
Get out of my head
You know just as well as I do
We don’t belong here
No maps, no ceremonies
We’re replaceable
Headlines and lights out
Starving
Stop asking
They’re going to send you back now
I saw them
Clawing, fighting, scratching
Locked in white now
We’re safe here
Just concentrate
Stabilized, he’s breathing
Where am I?
She’s getting worried now
They could be anywhere
They could be anywhere

That pressure in the chamber
Last reflection of tension
Return to find it
I know we stole something
Scared, counting
Like magnets
They waited together
Spread the disease
Light the message
We don’t have very long
Would you stop me?
Dig a hole, exposed
Tell the story child
She’ll forget, he’s coming
Snow, it was snowing
Bad days
Help me leave it behind
Inscribed, crumble
We all fall down
Chronicled by who
Let’s see where it takes us
Time to wake up
Don’t be angry
I could do this all night

I never got what I should find
In essays and equations
Secretly, we’d always hoped
There’d be another way
We burned our books
As we decided
We’d learn right in our garden
And so we worked against the sun
Building our fortress of better days
Knowing every seed we planted
Could someday teach us Everything

I'm wide awake
The TV tells me why I place no bets
The forecast tells me the storm is here
But it doesn't pose a threat
So I listen while I watch outside
Not surprised
My TV lied
The wind was strong enough to rip the morals out of men

The people ran for shelter
And the rain kept coming harder
This storm we found upon ourselves
Turned rebels into martyrs
They tried to somehow wait it out
They hoped it would subside
We saw the storm from miles away
And all we did was hide
I'm wide awake
The storm is worse and somehow I'm not surprised
The forecast seems to have noticed, too,
I hear they changed their minds
The day we decided it wasn't worth fighting
Something in us died
Someone said questions can't be answered
Well someone also lied
As the people began to worry, they asked God what should they do
And somehow all I cared about was wondering who he prayed to

In our world,
Dogs will learn to love their cages
And forget they were ever free
In our vacuum
Pigs of war and God
Will fall at equal speed

It's Strange to think
How things will change
Tomorrow doesn't smell
Like yesterday
And things I love
Will start to fade
While others will follow
To the grave
And seasons will change
The things I crave
I fear will never be the same
What I believe
You may find strange
Yet the answers might linger
With some for days
And my life will leave
The surface grazed
As I often failed
And so remains
Years and years
Of years unscathed
And who will teach
My son to behave?
Time went and came
And I its slave
The mystery
I felt in waves
Learned less in a lifetime
Than in a day
It's strange to think
How things will change
So go on, now,
Be on your way
And forget not
To always pray
For life is still waiting
Let your path go Astray
There's still so much to see