On my knees in the rain,
looking up,
blinking back drops of rain.

All around me people laugh,
they look down,
at me they point and they laugh.

The tower, like a scar against the sky,
stabbing into clouds,
with one eye looks from its place in the sky.

The tower's unblinking eye is just a lighted window.
There's a girl up there.
She knows I'm down here, but she doesn't come to the window.

I kneel at the foot of the tower. I scream, and I beg the girl to come to me.
The people point and laugh;
They know that I will never move, and that she won't ever come down for me.

Fold it, like paper,
into whatever.
Unfold it later,
and fold it again.

Today it's a bird,
tomorrow a box,
a flower next week,
whatever you want.

Fold it like paper,
as long as you swear,
that you'll never tear,
my origami heart.

I see a sea
of ebony,
with aspen trees,
upon the shore.

The waves crash down,
and all around
are evening sounds,
upon the shore.

I'm on the sand,
and at my hand
a castle stands,
upon the shore.

And here I'll lie,
no more to cry,
alone to die,
upon the shore.

When god made you,
he made me too,
and all things true,
upon the shore.

All the shards of a broken shallow cup.
They cut your hands,
they make you bleed.
Blood drips from your unclenched hands,
mixing with a sea of tears.

I come along and help you up,
then knock you back down to your knees,
and you will never understand.

The sharks can smell the blood I bleed,
those vultures know I'm here,
the vampires feel the life in me,
the cannibals are near.

Vapor trails,
the only proof
that you were ever here.

Gone away,
you've gone away,
and now I have regrets.

Goodbye now,
my one true love,
we both knew you would leave.

Someday soon
I'd like to think
that I'll be leaving too.

But for now
I'm looking up
at vapor trails you left.

Down we fell, down from the sky.
Remember how we used to fly?
Around the seas and moats of stars.
Now we're trapped within our cars.

And now we look up at the sky.
And still we ache, each day, to fly.
Through telescopes we watch the stars,
Surrounded by the sounds of cars.

Please let me back into the sky.
I know now that I'm meant to fly.
Once more, let me traverse the stars.
Escape this world, and all its cars.

Take from me this fragile cup,
and then for me, please smash it up.
And
take from me these shattered dreams,
because the night's not what it seems.
And
while you're crying, in the hall,
I'll take hammers to these walls.
And
while you're treading through the glass,
I'll remember time gone past.
And
find for me a coat and tie.
I'll sing for you a lullaby.
And
I will sing you off to sleep,
then I'll go swimming in the deep.
And
try for me, to just forget
the first time that we ever met.
For
now I'm gone, I won't back,
and now for me you'll dress in black.

Lean up against the wall and cry.
I like to watch you as you cry.
I'm part of something when you cry.
That might be why I make you cry.

Collapse into your bed and dream.
I like to think that you still dream.
It comforts me to hear you dream.
Am I the reason that you dream?

Throw back your soaking hair and breathe.
I like to hold you when you breathe.
I sigh, relieved, each time you breathe.
Because you give me cause to breathe.

Alone in my cove, on my side,
I think thoughts of you, on your side.
The world seems so big,
when I don't take part,
but you, you always take part.

Alone with my thoughts on my side,
I think of the world on your side.
And how it would be,
if I would take part,
but me, I never take part.

Alone in my hole, on my side,
while you take in life on your side.
The life on my side,
is life I impart,
of your world, I need no part.

Desiring you, on my side,
I know you're content on your side.
I would be content,
to give you my heart,
but you have a wandering heart.

Angels are just corpses with borrowed eagle wings,
they bring us into life with the discord that they sing.

I walk along a star-scape with my heart out on my sleeve,
and all the little dreams I have are lies to be believed.

The dark is getting closer now, but I'm still wide awake
and being bent as far as this is causing me to break.

So many I have hidden from, but from you I can't hide;
you've seen me at my very worst so you know when I've lied.

So take me from this star-scape, take my heart from off my sleeve,
show me what the truth is. Give me something to believe.

Step out into the cold where no one goes,
where the night air speaks no words of hurt or hate.

The fog of your breath distills in moonlight,
and somewhere a dog barks at the sound of cars.

A wraith-like plastic bag drifts down the street,
a specter, like you, that wanders all alone.

You walk the lonely familiar sidewalks,
hopelessly attempting to forget yourself.

The silent stars above look so becalmed,
though tormented by the slow turmoil of space.

You tread along a crack in the cement,
just like it's a cord that bears you through the air.

In the end the cold reaches into you,
and freezes your wandering will to go on.

Though the cold, the moon, and the stars remain,
you happily crawl back to the place you left.

Mountains and valleys and planes of the mind,
the world in the raw, the home of mankind.

The sea looks so deep from a peak in the sky,
and so full of stars, reflected at night.

Horizons converge and the sky becomes land,
and I climbed the whole world in an effort to stand.

One with the valleys, the mountains, the sea,
and each one a part of the world that is me.