"I had to ride a bicycle home when it was really kicking in and it was really tough to make it home because I felt drunk and doezy, and felt like i was biking through a fun house, then listened to a few tracks by AWOLnation and felt like I was the star of some epic trippy music video."

Sunlight beaming down
On my small town
But my mind is at it once again.
This feeling aint new
Just thought these days were through
Hello there darkness, my friend.
There's nothing you can say
So please just stay away
Before I burn your bridge as well.
Keep me in a cage
When I have this rage
You don't want to catch this Hell.

To whoever can hear, Oh what am I doing.
This home holds the broken, no bites but still chewing.
Oh captain, there captain, caribbean treasure.
Is the eventual pain worth tonights pleasure?
I gaze all around, yet no direction looks brighter.
Could be in a daze but that ***** stole my lighter.
Its only my world inside my mind.
The door with the cure im sure i wont find.

He wears a fake seal
Knows nothing is real
Got fed with the salt
And made a dark deal
The devil in his chair
Breathed him new air
Promised of a goddess
A lock of her hair
The king gave the tools
A list of the rules
Sat back and watched
The slaughter of fools
Let free fall the blood
A city in flood
Plant them in the earth
But dig only mud
Til mass ends the show
Still with more to go
Does hell reward sin
I soon shall know

Ah well
The easy life
That i never wanted
Leave me
You had it all worked out I see
Well is there anyway
That we can skip this part
Because one time
Well I knew someone
And she just wanted to cry for me
Well its alright
I guess I'm down for that
It might be worth it
All the same

Well she came from up above
Must have heard the earthly calls
Every day she falls in love
And every night she falls

And the clouds rain down
Alexandra

Shes got much more to give
Than anyone can know
Shes got a place to live
But shes always on the go

Alexandra
The clouds rain
Alexandra

I could spot you when I walked in
You must have just came from the garden
Can you ever trust a man again?
I see dark clouds a closing in

Alexandra
Let her rain on you
Alexandra
Let her cleanse you too

I saw her in the moonlight
I was fast asleep
She stunned me with a sharp bite
She sunk her teeth so deep

I must've known that i was dreaming
Cause i didnt pull away
The others did run screaming
But i was here to stay

Alexandra
She knows just what to do
Alexandra
She's got me and she has you

Alexandra
I heard it as the wind blew
Alexandra
She's got me and she has you

Knocked to the sand with a wave of fate
I reach now for the hand but I am too late
Would you be the one to bring back the bait?
For hours upon hours i yearn for that date

Although it is only life
I'm still shaken by the dearth
Of all the weary wayfarers
Who've been forced to walk the earth

In the ritual of mad
Until their body's have been drained
Searching for something else
That cannot be obtained

Look at me, I'm on my knees again
I had hoped that you would be the end
of all my
of all my...

For a second there I thought you reappeared.

It rains a lot this time of year.

We both go together when one falls down.

I talk out loud like you're still around.

And i believe some people make themselves bad just to make the rest of the world seem better by comparison

I feel I'm such a peasant
Who will just live then be forgetten
A pawn among the chessboard
A tiny speckle in the present
A cookie cutter bud of cotton

Lazily the thunder purs
Wealthy women draped in furs
The trumpet smooth and sky black
A heavy rain washes time back

She allowed the sun to kiss her ankles
But her face remained a privilage of the air
As her features illuminated in the sunlight
And the opulent gold shown through her hair

In the aftermath it was clear that her calculations had been correct
The forgiving wind massaged her skin and gave her the peace to reflect

Late nights of you I'm bound to yearn.
Still my heart I give you to waste.
Though your fair flesh was sweet to learn.
The aching end a bitter taste.
Can this world not show me any more?
Oh ever is my wound to heal?
So what do I keep breathing for?
Real emotion's such a drag to feel.

You may escape me tomorrow
but I've got you now

When our tyrant sun awakens from its dubious slumber as it does each day with impecable reliability, i may once again find myself in solitude.
   And as i lay still and naked on my big brass bed. My room as the only exsistence with any meaning to me. I will wear that same smile once broke and never repaired. For I shall have you framed forever.
   In a lonesome gallery I have your potrait of memoriam. Your innocent pedestrian voice on blissfully hydrated lips, hiding your sultry pleasured toungue and eyes that are a shade of blue too cold to describe.
I am too frightened to consider what could've made eyes like that, yet I could stare for a thousand years.
   And I plan to do just that, for a thousand days like tomorrow when I need a glimpse of a reminder of what artistry there is in this world. I know when you wake in the morning your eyes may shut on this life. But you have opened mine for infinity in this moment.

Bird on my front porch.
It's been there way too long.
Why is it not flying?
There must be something wrong.
Livng on this huge earth.
There is so much to see.
Why is it not exploring?
But then again why isn't me.

I see an ocean in your eyes
I could sail til the end of time
Stare into your deepest blue
Where dreams have wept and love's untrue

On this empty night
I feel us share this heartbeat
You're many seas away
No distances can keep you away

Begging on my knees
The skies to show a purpose
No clouds just clarity
Someday it'll all be perfect

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Dolefully trudge to my chamber this night.
Carrying burden of this inimical plight.
Scrawling as a means to drop this weight light.
But alas, who will read these words that I write?

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Heaven in a dark place.
Jokers with no face.
Not a moment free yet not a thing to do.
The theif paints his cell walls.
With crushed plants and it falls.
Ivory clouds speckle the sky of blue.
Deep in the brain stem.
A bulb burning light dim.
Wallows the roots of everything once feared.
Blind marchers guiding.
Hunters found hiding.
Messy brigade leaves the ruins cleared.
Time will move on and on and on and on and on you too soon.
By the time your eyes adjust to the sun you'll be seeing the moon.
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Dolefully trudge to my chamber this night.
Carrying burden of this inimical plight.
Scrawling as a means to drop this weight light.
But alas, who will read these words that I write?

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Heaven in a dark place.
Jokers with no face.
Not a moment free yet not a thing to do.
The theif paints his cell wall.
With crushed plants and they fall.
Ivory clouds speckle the sky of blue.
Deep in the brain stem.
A bulb burning light dim.
Wallows the roots of everything once feared.
Blind marchers guiding.
Hunters found hiding.
Messy brigade leaves the ruins cleared.
Time will move on and on and on and on and on you too soon.
By the time eyes adjust to the sun you'll be seeing the moon.

****** violent dreams.
Victim's lovely screams.
Ah Ah.
Crimson flowing streams.
****** violent dreams.
Oh Oh.
The mad man wakes up sweaty he is here again, here again.
It looks as though his sick addictions dear again, dear again.
Half asleep he walks down to his basement, basement.
Grabs his tools to work on a new patient, patient.
Storms into the city too excited, excited.
Somehow the evil in him's reignited, ignited.
****** violent dreams.
Ha Ha.

Ya know we work instead of party.
Nothing that means a shorter life.
Yeah we work instead of party.
Cause longer is better, right?
Yeah then we sleep until the morning.
Then we get back to our lives.
We sleep until the morning.
Beause dreamland ain't real, right?

When you wake a Sunday morning
Don't want to get out of bed
You sleep a few more hours
Just to postpone the dread.
You hear the carnival in the distance
But ignore what you had said
For you can't look in the mirror
Without shaking your head.

There's a way to get there, though the cloud,
is threatening and the thunder loud
One road will take you to the scene,
where dreams come true and grass is green.
There are many paths from which to choose.
One will win, while most will lose.
How do I make such great decisions?
I wish I had clairvoyant visions.

Everyone's leaving earth
There's no room for dreams here
Grounded by the gravity of being man
Would you climb aboard?
And orbit with outcasts
For following the path
Was never in their plan

With flags unfurled
Eyes closed and minds open
They comet the skies, theyre a lucid clan
Would you take the lead?
Then learn to follow
The stars beckoning for you like nothing can

Living little less than the right way
I've turned all my friends to stone
Weary legs carry me
To the river
Wash off everything I've known

I've seen dead flowers on the way
And crowds of people all alone
No charity tempts me
To deliver
Now stinginess I don't condone

And I don't want to roam
Too far from my home
Don't want to leave it all away
The world seems small
When you have it all
Oh I wish that I could stay

When I arrived the river had frozen still
Ole Neptune saw no other way
If I could only find a little time
To ****
I'd be out here all the day

And I don't understand
Why I'm branded where I stand
Don't think you know how it might feel
It doesn't take
Much for a heart this cold to break
Without a hope ever to heal

And when you hear these words
Next life my friend
I don't know where I'll be then
If there's one thing
This world has shown
We borrow everything we own

Oh to reap what I have sewn
Oh to reap what I have sewn
Oh to reap what I have sewn
Oh to reap what I have sewn

I
Can see
That You
are waiting for my
Time to come
But I
Am lost inside

If I
Can be
That lost
from the inside
How am I
Alive?
You try
to read my mind

The city had dark clouds above
And the streets were plain
Everyone is either making love
Or else expecting rain

Daylily blooms, the sun has given
Life for today, tomorrow she will die
I looked around and saw such livin'
But I couldn't for the life of me figure out why

I sure do miss that open highway
And the feeling life was still about to begin
I pray that time sends you back my way
Roll the window down, feel the moonlight on my skin

Please
Come back with me
Oh please
Come back with me
To where
We used to be
Oh please
Come back with me

Went on my knees to find the answer
But found the question had escaped my mind
I never did have any chance sir
Things worth searching for are things we can't find

Shaking as I speak
Hoping it won't cast me out alone
Rosey in my cheek
Hoping it won't cast me out alone

It is raining in my sea tonight
All of the drops turning to foam
I smile at the distant light
For it's my love calling me back home

Daylily's gone
Daylily's gone
Daylily's gone
Daylily's gone

They're selling postcards of the hanging
They're painting the passports brown
The beauty parlor is filled with sailors
The circus is in town
Here comes the blind commissioner
They've got him in a trance
One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker
The other is in his pants
And the riot squad they're restless
They need somewhere to go
As Lady and I look out tonight
From Desolation Row.

Cinderella, she seems so easy
"It takes one to know one," she smiles
And puts her hands in her back pockets
Bette Davis style
And in comes Romeo, he's moaning,
"You belong to Me I Believe."
And someone says, "You're in the wrong place, my friend
You'd better leave."
And the only sound that's left
After the ambulances go
Is Cinderella sweeping up
On Desolation Row.

Ophelia, she's 'neath the window
For her I feel so afraid
On her twenty-second birthday
She already is an old maid
To her, death is quite romantic
She wears an iron vest
Her profession's her religion
Her sin is her lifelessness
And though her eyes are fixed upon
Noah's great rainbow
She spends her time peeking
Into Desolation Row.

There once was a man named Dave
Who dug up a prostitutes grave
She spelled like ****
Was missing a ***
But look at the money he saved

Yeah well nothing felt right.
Oh but we were'nt looking for love.
Just another body tonight.
We dont care what he thinks above.
So you ask me what i like.
I beg you tell me a ***** lie.
As you ride me like a bike.
I'm just another nameless guy.
But I'll give you my rage.
I know you'll enjoy this pain.
This will be just another page.
Of the lies we feed to our brain.
But we are not writing now.
We're just doing the motions ya.
The best way to lives how?
Numb and drunk to emotions ha!
As we drain all our health,
Oh we don't look in the eyes.
Because we may see something else,
How bout we just tell more ***** lies?

Ive often dreamt me
Like the man on TV
Singing Riders on the Storm.
Or the man in the ring
Dancing and punching
Make you wish youd never been born
And im not certain how,
but the time has come now
I look the mirror in the eye and ask why.
Living life for a strangers eyes.

I could just live for me.
But nobody would see.
Ah but who really cares!?
It may sound unkind
But leave all behind,
And trek alone through the woods in the bare.
Alone to the woods in the bare.
An actor out alone need'nt care

I've not awaken
Could this be real
There's no mistaken
The way I feel

Elina
I think I've seen ya in a dream oh my
Before the world seemed to go awry
When I was a child
With visions running wild
I made a world where only skies could be blue
That's where I first saw you

Wild night of lust
Now only in my mind
I knew I couldn't trust
This treacherous heart of mine

She soaks my bed with gasoline
You'd think I would've noticed
Her mind's made up, the love is gone
I feel like someone's trying to give me a sign
That even if I thought it would last
The moment would pass
My bones would break
My heart would give
Oh it hurts to live

Sweet freedom rains from heavens away
Listen for the kingdom has wisdom today

Spring on my seed
This world wont rule you forever
Worries, you shant need
Those who fret can't be clever

We all live for the chance at love
But scheming up in the blue
Sending notes by way of dove
Swooping down to show me you

Fairest body, and hair does flow
A magic smile and eyes that know

If for some reason you want me again.
Look for me on the sole of your shoes.
You are the worst always to win.
I am the best always to lose.

Flash with your eyes to remember me
Baby forever we
Take this moment and let it freeze
Days and nights, now we'll never leave
Lets lose our souls and set free
Lets lose our clothes and roam deep
Into the wooded green
Into the forrest sea
Baby forever we
Baby you and me

Magic men on the wheel
Don't you see the time has come
Rushing winds
Holding coats
Running sand
Stopping boats
Magic men on the wheel
What do you choose for a final meal

Standing on the corner
Future in my case
Waiting to hear the bumping
Of your fresh chevy bass

Yes your a modern woman
I'm an ancient man
And i still can't figure out why
You ever took my hand

I've died a million lifetimes
Filled the seas of blue
Regretting all the ***** things
I had done to you

I recall an angel crying
Aside the sunlit lake
The heartache in your eyes
Could make Chuck Norris break

Time has passed and steadied
We went our own ways
But without you I have no meaning
In my sorry days

We had days with frozen smiles
I wish that was still true
I'll spend the rest of my life trying
To make it up to you

The beats are growing louder
My life is pulling in
I take a deep breath and walk on up
"Hello there again."

The letter was addressed: From Agnes With Love
It arrived from above, in the beak of a dove
My heart it had seemed to stop in its place
But it started to race, when I saw your face
The years had shown through your beauty in lines
A few more then the time, when I called you mine.
The photo brought memories of pain and of bliss
On the back was your kiss, and the word "remanice"
Was it a cruel taunt, or did you crave me?
I thought as I walked nervously, to your cottage to see.

Procrastination is like *******.
It feels good until you remember that you're ******* yourself.

Once the feelings start
Theyre hard to control
I gave her my heart
But she took my soul

Funny how we fear to try things new.
When once upon a time, that was all we knew.

In that dream I'm as old as the mountains
Still is starlight reflected in fountains

Children grown on the edge of the ocean
Kept like jewelry kept with devotion
In that dream moving slow through the morning

You would come to me then without answers
Lick my wounds and remove my demands for now

Eucalyptus and orange trees are blooming
In that dream there's no darkness alluded
In that dream moving slow through the morning time

In that dream I could hardly contain it
All my life I will wait to attain it
There, there, there

I know someday the smoke will all burn off
All these voices I'll someday have turned off

I will see you someday when I've woken
I'll be so happy just to have spoken
I'll have so much to tell you about it

In that dream I could hardly contain it
All my life I will wait to attain it
There, there, there

Wide-eyed walker, don't betray me
I will wake one day, don't delay me
Wide-eyed leaver, always going

Hello Hello
To You from I
But who are you
And who am I?
What blinds do block
my fish eye
Digging for water
Up in the sky
I have no more urge to love until I ****
I have no choice but to believe in free will
You're laying on a comet
Awaiting certain doom
I spill my word *****
Have you any room?

I said Hello to Poetry.
It didn't say nothing.
It didn't say nothing.
I guess the words must come from me.
Isn't that something.
Isn't that something.

I wish i could fall deep
Into a slumbered sleep
But i guess i must reap
What I've sewn
I'd sleep all day and night
Until everything is alright
Because awake i must fight
Being alone

I remember when I was a little baby
Sitting alone on the pillow casing
Upset already I could feel the aging
The urge to return was debilitating