Heather's a heathen in heaven.
She got there by a man with a fire-arm.
He burnt a hole in her quick, the diameter thick,
All because she fell for his charm.

Lionel was a ***** in love.
He decided to confess it one day.
He rang the doorbell, expecting nothing but hell,
Then fell to his death in decay.

Alice abused amphetamines.
She fell asleep on the Earth's axis.
Down a hole she fell, where she cast a spell,
And came out with a thousand fascists.

Vincent was a ****** in Vienna.
He got lonely one day and blew up.
He assaulted a girl, with big pretty red curls,
After putting a pill in her cup.

Sammy was a serial sadist.
He frowned and he wore a big hat.
So, just to be fair, he went to the chair,
And suffered for no seconds flat.

Lincoln loved living his life.
He did many good deeds and was proud.
Then came a strange sight, brought him to his plight-
A doppelganger strung by a cloud.

Anarchy was alive in America.
It hated those who wore the white glove.
So one day it split, bombed the pyramids, to wit,
All in the precious name of love.

Father, son, and holy ghost
Galaxies out there are also down here
Where fire and brimstone meet the ocean
Rocking rolling dancing purge
Sacred cleansing primal urge
And as we lose an angle breaks
We stand alone and here we start
Connect the signal brain and heart
The closest and most far apart
Keep going till you reach the edge
Find a way to bridge the gap
Shift the hourglass
And pray for wings

Tiny silver ***** are strewn across the floor
They roll this way and that, and somehow they meet
Only listen now if you're abhorred
By those with hearts frozen in concrete

You're a snowflake
You're a riverbed, baby
Degraded, serrated
A membrane that's in pursuit
Of nothing trivial
You've got energy
You've got your own order
Nevermind the hoarders
Of organization
You're a tornado
You're lightning, baby
Striking, frightening
A light that can't die
From something miniscule
Stay like an icicle
Frozen in the cave of a volcano

Tiny silver ***** are strewn across the floor
They roll this way and that, and somehow they meet
Only listen now if you're abhorred
By those with hearts frozen in concrete

You say you're a hustler
And you got it made
And you made your bed
But you refuse to lie in it
Street's the education
I say look up all the ways
Your nation made you a slave
You threw away the tie-dyes
And picked up a gun
But it's one and the same
It's one and the same
You're playing politician
Minus the wife
As the in-crowd polishes
Their gold incisors
And it's not the same
You're one and the same

They print paper
We make copies
Lumps in their soup
Lumps in our blood
The Great Divide
Label me doomed
Tickle me tired
With your barbed tail
But she's got room
To powder her nose
And he loves the steam
While the devil
Adds ten pounds
The sweet **** of the middle
The coddled and befuddled
Spawn
Padded walls
Will lead you to
A shallow grave-
Three feet under
Yearning for a box
While they dance in circles
Generations of
Insulin an Insulation
Widen the gap
Here comes the bomb
Numb is not a temporary state
But it sure is a comfortable place
We're all on the lam
Don't ask for more
Ask to return
To the source
They print paper
We make copies

Rough hands
Soft eyes
Be naive
Be wise
Kneel down
Stand up
Be warrior
Be tough
New years
A lie
No such
Thing as time
So hard
To be nice
Every day to
Not think twice
In a world of
Pity and fear
Garments soiled
With tears
Lukewarm
Is not
Good
Enough
Repent
Repent
Repent
Repent

Muted streetlight hovers on a glistening sidewalk
I walk in the street holding my own hand
Every day my life’s like straddling the yellow line
Between speeding cars in both directions
I never could find a palm the right temperature
I never could direct the traffic in my mind
I never could do quite anything as well as you, so
My self-worth rented a room in your head
And it plans to stay there
The hotel is snowed in
It plans to stay there
Somewhere I’m walking in wildflowers
Sharing the sun with everything I sense
But here I’m stuck, suspended indoor rust
Growing like mold on everything I touch
I never could find a complacent day
I never could direct my feet to ignore their stares
I never could be quite anything that you could, so
My self-worth rented a room in your heart
And it plans to stay there
The hotel is snowed in
It plans to stay there
And here, there are no future plans
She said, don’t you go making future plans
Their torture lingers in my solar plexus
The time has come to pray
Yeah, while they play with me

Make a mistake in someone’s home
They’ll fill you with insecticides
Till your insides start to glow
And through your walls, they’ll come at night

Soon delirium works full time
As your brain penetrates the paint
It’s like seeing through a fly’s eyes
You linger between two realms till you faint
(Again & Again…)

What a convenient cold dish, this revenge
I’m stuck inside this Kafka parody, till the end
Up ahead the silhouettes read my damaged mind
They **** out all the prophecies through a hole in my spine

The most malicious never show themselves
They’ll poke, **** and ride you to a place beyond hell
In a vessel made up of your nerve-damaged nightmares
Price to pay as the gift, sacrificial snare

Cleaning your clock at the Watchtower

She doesn't aim to ****
She rather puncture, amputate, deform
She's never done spinning her web
Even when you're paralyzed

She magnifies her lies
And calls it transformation
Convincing others you're a burden
Who needs to be put out of her misery

She doesn't believe in raising the dead
But she's an expert in lowering the living
The sudden best friend who keeps her enemies closer-
(An angel with no motives is a demon in disguise)

She's dancing and singing in my opera of horror
She's happy to play the part
She's waiting for my lavish palace of wonder
To turn into a grotesque carnival of mirrors

As underneath those China eyes and pirate smile
Hides a latrodectus blackbird-
Leaving her venom and ******* your essence
So she can fly

So don't be fooled by the lack of red-
She keeps the hourglass in her head
She's in the business of changing names
Passing to you the hysterics of Jane
(Claire, I can't find you in there)

Thriving on your denial
Creative only in deception
She'll put your footprints on a devil's pact
And call it her reception

True as any fallen black wing
She only shows herself in shadows
The little, rogue, blood-thirsty fiend
Loves to get her hands ***** in private

But while she drinks from the cup of others' sorrows
Thinking she has lightning in a bottle
She may forget that one of these tomorrows
Her beloved beast will turn on her

Living in her kingdom of jewels
She would've gotten away unscathed
Pity, the infrastructure wasn't infused
With wisdom-
The charmer of limbs will fall

(Silly girl,
Robots aren't sacred)

The beasts of land came to be
One named A and one named B
They saw a palm tree
And waded through the waters
To reap the fruit of thee
But they almost drowned
Afraid of their own weakness
And to make their way back
They cut down a tree
Made a boat to stay afloat
And now their skin is turned
Basked in the heat of the burn
And she's got a lime in the coconut
Or so it says

Your opposite is evil
He has needs
He'll ***** you
Like only a brother can
Take your land, your woman
Your worth
He'll become your obsession
If you let him
While the flower-girl kneels
And prays for a man
It says you're not meant to drift
But your mind often does
Your brother is not your twin

Forget blood
Forget worries
The goldmine of
Yours and Mine
Has not been found yet
Keep searching for a
Sister…

Tumor bloom
Tumor grew
Tumor who
Rumors flew
Tumor removed
Tumor who
We still can’t figure out what is wrong with you
And you can’t raise your hand in a test tube
Bloated yellow belly on hands of blue
Investigate through shaky fingers, how dare you
It’s only our job to watch you
Watch you fade away, cry at your funeral
An through sobs of joy, claim we were there for you
Are you still with Us?
Are you still with Us?
Well here’s another object we can put a piece of your soul in
Chock full of nothing at the bottom of the ocean
-----
Well, I only stuck around to hear the details from your mouth
Perhaps to share some with you, but you never asked, you assumed
Just like I did when he told me he did it with a smug, smug grin
Just like I did when I returned to my body with plastic near every inch
Guilty by the first, but I swear I wasn’t there for the rest
Take a dose by ten, wash it down with tainted gin, let’s see how well you land
I wanna see how well your body lands
And all this I’ve gathered through a hell made up of your eyes
Didn’t have the luxury of tape to ease my long-gone mind
There were some things to repress, long before this
I’ve pried open every vault, to find this wasn’t one of them
No, this wasn’t one of them
And your spies, my friends, were your spies
Who are you this time
And my friends, were your spies
So I divulged the icing with a glazed smile
Yeah I divulged nothing, but I tried
I tried
Closing my eyes I see your future objects
An one day you’ll be under the curtain
Yes, one day you’ll be under the curtain
Observed, abducted, catatonic, fried
This world hates absolution
When I’m gone
Maybe a ghost can jog my memory
That was too much for you to do
----
Tumor bloom
Tumor grew
Rumors flew
Tumor removed
Tumor who?
Tumor who?

As the moon peeks out from beyond the clouds
I'm proud to say I might live another day
Stress has aged me beyond my years
A lethal equation summed up by fears and tears
I can't make them love me
So I paint on a smile
Fake it till you make it for awhile
They're all mesmerized by the city lights
But I think I'll just look towards the sky
Cause in my dreams you sent me messages from the deep
You asked love or money,
What would I prefer
But I chose you and your vibrant moods to
Bring me back to life and to remember
There were two champagne glasses there that night
Are you my destiny in the next go round?
Are you unhappy underground?
The football games, the empty space, the elegant waste, the promises you made
Cause mansions don't make someone rich
And the ***** of it all is that we never met
But I won't forget you-
A cradle in a bad mood. a comforter of all those you see right through
So come back to me
I'll pay you back times three
The quarterback in dreams
We will discover God and ask what he means about redemption

The anatomy of a hand
Is closer to a belief
One is me
Two is us
And sometimes
Two is a mindless gesture
Peace or horns,
Love or scorn,
Take your pick
Three is trinity
Three is just
Until it comes in bad luck
In those with a pulse
Cause one will always betray
Like a school-child abandoned in the playground
And four is quite the score
If you know the true nature
Of the Hanged Man
And five is a silly thing
It's only our limbs
And stars and such
No rush
And six knows all the tricks
Until it's reversed
And seven is heaven
But also holds wounds
Yet then again, it can be friend
Pushing you closer to beloved ten
As ten is perfection
Until you reach twelve
Count on your fingers
I dare you delve
Into the anatomy of a hand
A thumb is a woman in thin air
Index is male-talk for beware
Beware the pinky finger
An evil little thing
A ring is a finger not meant for a ring
It all lies in the middle
******* as planned
Yet in your anger you're blessing above
Blessing what cannot be named
But don't tame your hands
It's all part of the plan

You community
You society
You bloodthirsty fiends
Stay the **** away from me
It gets tiring
Trying to catch every
Measure of deceit
I don't need your good deeds
So get the **** away from me
It's one thing corrupting water
But fire's another thing
Entirely
Cyber-bullies and mind-freaks
Stay the **** away from me
Rita's not lovely
She's giving you tickets everyday
And you don't own a car
It's like being
Drunk at the dentist
Sober in a corporate office
Dating a ventriloquist
But much more strange
Much more dangerous
You can't have love without the lust
Better off with clouds
Busting at the seams

Looks like we're headed for mean season
I gave you rhyme when you needed reason
And it's a shame our ways have shifted
Passive clown, unknown grifter

Burning bridges ain't as fun as it looks
Head of bricks and a heart that cooks
Spin the top, board the pirate ship
Lobotomy's botched and so are my lips

He said, "You're riding for a terrible fall"
But stone cold statues always stand tall
How many roads till you find the right path
Everybody dies, do the math

Looks like we're headed for strange reasons
To a place that never has seasons
And it's a shame our heads have shifted
Mature clown, widowed mistress

Toes are bronzed
Once they danced
Twirling tips
Winked romance
At one time
Dipped in gold
Prolonged use
Colors old
Now they feel
Stuck like stone
Barren seeds
Pebbles thrown
So they fell
Black swan curse
Ungraciously
For better, worst
The statue broke
Unwanted face
Could not stand tall
Without a base

To be
Or not
Is get
-ting caught
In webs
Of thought
An I'm
At such
A loss
It seems
That some
-One else
Is boss
Yet proof
Is not
In the
Right sauce
It lies
With those
Who say
They're not
A hard
-ened heart
Or a
Cold part
And yet
To save
Their soul
From harm
They don't
Turn down
My thoughts
Which weave
Like yarn
Yet break
Like thread
Nor do
They de
-ny my
Strange but
Strong ties
To all
Things fra
-gile and
Too wild
For I
Am not
From where
They are
But they
See this
As met
-aphor
When it's
Quite ve
-ry lit
-eral
The last
Or the
Ori
-ginal
So let
Me just
Leave you
With this
You came
From your
Mother-
I came
From a
Place called
A word
That is
Not in-
Vented
Yet.

You know nothing
I know less
Seems the whole world spins on
An uneducated guess
Connected dots replace
Moon’s curiousness
An upon a shooting star
I wished for death

Flickering rotation
Signals all is strangely fixed
Like a warrant on my life
For obscured charges
They love to say they care
As they play in hyacinths
Upon the ashen horse I pray
More time for forgiveness

Sugar, don't you put that white suit on
Just slither over here into my arms
Honey, don't show up in mother's pearls
Don't ever shed your skin
My reptile girl

Words in my brain
Money on my mind
And you're over there
Fumbling with a zipper and a
Ten-foot-long cigarette-ash

Honey, don't you put that white suit on
Just slither over here into my arms
Sugar, don't show up in mother's pearls
Don't ever shed your skin
My ***** little creature

I bought you a locket
To put in your pill-box pocket
And you're over there
Touching your neck with a
Glazed look in your eyes

Honey, don't show up in mother's pearls
Just come over here, don't ever unfurl
Sugar, don't you put that white suit on
My rainy day woman number one
Don't ever shed your skin

We're all ok
With the wind on our backs
But misdirected anger needs a home
And it needs it fast
(Silver string turning grey)
A backpacker walking
Ain't no walker with a knapsack
No more snappy fingers
******* another's soul
Call it your own
(Silver string turning grey)
The network of loneliness
A bunch of faded glories
Doing time
For the pain of another
We beg for contact
And we know we'll never find it
But it's out there
We beg for mercy
When we've already found it
Within ourselves
(Silver string turning grey)
Cynics are dreamers
Watching the shiny happy people
Float on by
In cement shoes

Girl's got it bad
She's got a case of hard luck
Been fighting all her life
Been fighting for Their love
And another loose tire
And another loud crash
Just another collision
An excuse for the cash

Girl's got it good
She's got a case of fine luck
Been drinking all the night
Been drinking for Their love
And another loud laugh
And another loose tongue
Just another defamer
Putting down her best chums

Girl's got it bad
She's got a case of hard luck
Been fighting all her life
So hard to give a ****
And another loose *****
And another crossed wire
Just another tamed shrew
Just another good liar

Honey baby,
Can't you see you only quote the good book
When death is in the air
Honey baby,
Can't you see your misfortunes are payback
For all your guile deeds
Poor baby,
Can't you see you'll catch a break when you start
To get yourself wise
Sweet baby,
I can't wait around till you condescend
To look me in the eye

I have a house on a chain
It used to dangle from my wrist
It was lost and someone found it
But then it didn't fit

I strung it from a wire
Tied it loosely round my neck
But the sunlight bleached it
Still, I wanted to keep it

Pulled it closer to my heart
Collared love and neck-bone lace
Till the string was pulled too tight
I was choked but didn't die

The house took my spirit away
But my breath remained
Then came the dreams of fire
And I knew the house was cursed

Should have kept the superstitions
Said my acts of contrition
Followed all the warning bells
And realized that this house was hell

Now the matter seeps in heavy
Sandman has replaced the sun
I beg the stars, eternal rest
And, which form of death is best?

She put a bullet in my head
Still she hated my ghost
So she filled her guitar with dynamite
Then strapped it to my host
Thinking no one would come
To pick up my pieces
And she was right
Until I had an impulse to sing
I sung her song against her with glee
And in her cold heart
She knew she was a lover
But she was no dancer

So she turned our battle
Into the biggest school-charade
"Barons of suburbia
Cast your votes
Who likes who better?"
Till I was laughed off the stage
Started to sink to her level
Even without a body
I started to sink to her level
Just another pale face
With unfinished business

It's the poison she serves
It spreads thin like butter
On all you once thought beloved
Till it rises like black sea-foam on the bog
And as I go through my
Daily evaporations
I often wonder where she'd be
Without all her little helpers
Her elves and her salesmen
And even those who pull her strings
Did dear daddy pull her strings
Till live and let live
Became live and let not?

She on the inside of out
I on the outside of in
You think they'd be one and the same
But they're not
She was begotten
But she was forgotten
So she turned to the only trade left
Operating on deceit
******* to the beat
Of second-hand news
She can't create
So she manipulates
Turning the decay of others
Into an art form for her eyes

But she could never hold a candle
In my darkness
And I'll never tremble at her words
They're adjectives, not verbs
And she may set my robes to shame
With the flame of her armor
But she'll never sit under the shade
Of the tree that doesn't rot
Cause I may die a little death each day
But you can't **** the same thing twice
One victory is all you need, says she
But will I see her in another life?

In a blinded alley
In a tornado’s eye
Otherwise known as
Eternal blindness
So they build you up
Build you up, good
A near-perfect potion
A headstrong, rooted wood
Enter their domain
On a stretcher of wills-
Questionable, collective thrills
Throw pennies in their fountain
Till piggy bank’s in debt
Still there seems one thought
They haven’t collected yet
So they build you up
Outnumbered, how dare you try
To stay tough
Enmeshed in accidents your head
Is not aware of
Still your heart pangs with guilt
From an unknown source
Future hospital bills
Or maybe it’s their stares, glares
And cheap hellos
Their confession of only keeping you around
To see you crawl on all elbows
An all the twilight abductions
Poke, **** and nod your head
Cause it’s all really happening
But you’ve no way in hell to prove it
Didn’t know telepathy could be so
Unsterile, so unclean
As seed is stolen from your bloated belly
Your drowning genes
Your mutilated mind
Your soon extinct scene
They didn’t know you already
Held back the moon in a dream
What excruciating payback
For an unremembered accident
Brought on by your words of now
Echoing your thoughts of then
Plaguing me
Cursing me for the later

Fish, reptile, human embryo
Take your pick of what we are
The romance of god
The sterility of science-
A match not made in heaven
He made something out of nothing-
Sun, the light-bearer
But also blow-your-mind light
And plural heavens
As he hovered upon the face of the deep
And caused immense vibrations
You’re either here by mistake
Or here with a purpose
You’re either higher than monkeys
Or lower than angels

Cut the rock moon out with scissors
But you can’t trace the shape of the gas sun…
Katabatic winds
Predatory cold
It’s only been days
And already winter’s old
Clashing clouds
Dire straits
The world’s in such a fever
It can’t see straight
Cut the rock moon out with scissors
But you can’t trace the shape of the gas sun…
Feel God’s breath upon your back as he blows you towards death
Blows you to death
The world’s in such a fever
It can’t see straight

My situation is funky
But not on the groovy side
I have the power to **** you
Or open up your third eye

I grow in ****
I thrive in it
I'm no newborn
Been around since Genesis

They used my shape for warfare
But symbolism landed with a thud
They consumed me with flowers in their hair
Cause even the lotus grows in mud

I am incomprehensible
I am ancient
I'm not on the fence, I'm no vegetable
I'm not yours for the taking

Eve said I should only exist in autumn
Before the harsh winds blow from winter's call
Adam said humans don't know **** about me
But without me, they wouldn't exist at all

Does this ring any bells?
Does this sound any alarms?
(I am the disease and I am the cure
I'm the duality between your arms)

She had eyes the color of planet earth
And I’m sinking as I climb
Can’t give this feeling a name
When your dead, dumb and blind
And the television-
I swear it’s trying to tell me something
And the world outside-
I swear it’s dying to see me weeping
I’m not ready but I’m ready
I’m ready but I’m not ready
I’m ready but I’m not worthy
I’m not worthy and I’m not ready
Illuminated but still in the dark
I’m fighting off demons in my dreams
Dangerous it is to dream by day
But that is my reality
They keep pushing me
They keep chasing me
They keep following me around
Following me around
They’ve got their high beams on
I look to the stars
And I’m ready to go upstairs
But they’re trying to run me down
And then, again, I’m not ready
Not ready to die this way

The delights are many
But sweetness is scarce
Sedation is plenty
The rest is a farce
The leaves are bat-wings
The berries are stale
The log- hollow, rotted-
A breath could impale
And yet it stands so
A beautiful beacon
To those that broke homes
And small towns did weaken
Away they flock to the lonely hills
Where each ad is the piper’s tune
Of silent wishes unfulfilled an
Angels weep three times before noon

And you hate me
And always will
I know there're laughing
But it feels more like
A thousand daggers when
You know the gist
And not the details

Whatever happened to being yourself
Or your own worst enemy
I'm sorry if I get it wrong
These eyes are no longer my own
The world is no L word anymore
It's just not big enough

By everything, unhinged-
Money and dead leaves
Spider-webs and shattered glass
Light-bulbs and nooses
Hangers and trees
Scarecrows and Jesus
Atlantis America
Animal AI
Shoelaces and hangman-
It's all I see
In a sliver of the multitudes of me
While duality's making a killing
And the devil plays with more DNA
And I wonder how long endurance
Can outlive truth

Take control
Spin me up and away
But don't spin a web
Don't play with my head
Please don't conform
With your ears and your eyes
Use a little more brain, a little more spine
Then again, all my heroes
Have gone to milk cartons
Or simply have gone away
And while I speak my mind
The hypocrites scream diatribe
But words are all I have
And I'm just a crazy pariah
So what do they care
My world is coming to an end
And I'm not supposed to tell them
What nobody knows

The tome is heavy
The message is light
But I no longer have the luxury
Of distraction
I need purging
But they just want to get clean

There's too much I can't forget
And tons more I can't remember
And the whole world seems to know the latter-
Slashed and diced
Brain on a platter
If there's really room in the end
Maybe I shouldn't worry
But is there room for truth?
I don't want to solve the universe
I want to solve my forgone youth
And I rather hang with the crucified and poor
They don't have time for videotape and black magic-
All that's tragic
No guilt
No innocence
Just trying to survive the next ten minutes

Pregnant mind
Keeps rewinding
Going backwards in time to the
Opposite of life
So forgive me the delve, the dare
And maybe the wrong
These questions and methods replace
Bullets I don't own
And the chamber is always full

Diamond planets on layaway
Stellar corpses thrown away
Purple ribbons of DNA
And silver spoons in mouth

It may look white, but it's blue and red
A race of oranges on a narrow thread
While satellites mess with our heads
The sun dyes our hair

They're selling space to the googolplex kids
With golden grahams of fake eyelids
While android hands place their bids
Ignoring their embedded denial

Fifth dimension sure looks green
Entropy has gone obscene
My solar twin must be quite mean
But there's not much we can do

If you're blue
You're bleeding through
If you're blue
I'm bleeding too

Red, gold and green
Wears the Rastaman in woe
Waiting for the traffic light
To turn green and say “Go”

There are no ends to these extremes
This must be purgatory
Ghosts follow you
They treat you as the hollow you
The minute you fade away they burn you
What an art to learn
How they easily adapt to those they say they hate
Drinking the kool-aid with a straw smile
So **** lucky to fall in line-
Never losing sense of time
What a thick batch of rapture
Don’t know who to fear
Don’t know what to love
There are no ends to these extremes

You see
But what do you see?
Who is me?
Just a computer brain
They thrive on duality
To be or not to be
And I can't trace their patterns
Even with my telescopic eye
Perhaps they've got a program
For that type of illness too
But they don't tell you
How to use it against them
No, they prefer to herd you in
Like pre-slaughtered cattle
Shaking their death rattles
In every step you take
In every moment lies a place
You'll see once again
It's not deja vu
It's just them peering in inside of you
But you're no machine
You're not a circus beam
They can walk upon cause
They have crossed all the lines already
They have all took the time
Just a matter of minutes
Passed on information from the elders
That don't exist
They burnt all the books
So how can we know
If it's really about how it looks
Or how it feels
How can we tear apart
The inevitable lies and starts
There is no beginning
There is no end
Look outside your window
Nothing has changed
Except three little birds
And two little trees
And one little piece
Of stolen geometry
Don't meet your maker
Meet the architect
He's the boss
He foresees the costs
Of everything that
You once cherished
And that you lost
You can claim you have it all
But you most likely belong
In a store window
Heaven and hell
Outer-space or underground
You decide

We're all armed & dangerous
In this land
Cause one arm holds the power
As the other goes numb
And part of you disappears
While someone whispers that you're winning
But what you've won seems nothing
Compared to the fresh peaches and plums
You picked as a child

I'm a used up *****
Who's running out of band-aids
Name any emotion under the sun
But I've bet you've never been burned like me
So you do your strut always two steps ahead
Thinking I don't smell the poison sitting on your tongue
Like I'm ******* oblivious to bitterness
Welcome to the world of the sold and bought
So if you got something to say
Unleash that beast, be brave
Cause I bet a million bucks
That your heart's a *****
That's been waiting to show its true colors all along
Hey honey, you should thank me for the place you get to put your rage
And Job's Coffin looks down on the both of us
But go believing everything you haven't witnessed firsthand
And put a price tag on your dreams

Cut the ribbons
Unwind and unravel
Into a sculpture
Suited for time travel
Intrepid souls
Dare not follow you
There’s no one left
You’re cut in two
And when they want
A tour of the kingdom
She’ll say yes
Despite their rejection
But while she’s still here
She has a broken wing
If no one will mend it
Then how can she sing
Kneeling ****** at the altar
She requests nothing trivial
She only begs for mercy-
An answer is pivotal

Persecuted by the world
By nature and by fellow man
All cause it won’t overcome
That fear which it can’t understand-
The agony of being different
The dull pains of being weird
The Neverending appetite
To fit in with the group’s veneer-
But now I’m here
Too late to turn back
So unbutton my eyes, give me a true tongue
And try not to cut me some slack-
Ride out the storm
Turn some blue into black
Learn arts of satisfaction
Even if it’s all an act
While I envy all the animals
Who get by on so little-
A bird fumbles in the trash
And flies away contently

Planet Dust
Fairy Dust
Saw Dust
Star Dust

Particle Dust
Traveling Dust
Smashing Dust
Collective Dust

Stir up the Dust
Snort up the Dust
Sweep up the Dust
Sleep in the Dust

Crosses in the sky
With belief, emphasized
Create a force field of light
That wards off invaders
And curious crusaders
All their silver ships
Crashing and burning to bits
Right next to our southern cactus
Crosses in the sky
Now that all faith has died
Create nothing but an off-blue sky
That welcomes all others
With tendrils, who hover
Now, intentions are smudged
Will they ask us to budge
Or turn us into sludge
We kept them out before
But we still took pride in war
Now we’ve woken up
But our eyes are still shut
Brain got bigger but it
Beat our hearts to a pulp
The missing element
Of a radar that’s bent
Still, a burning cross
Is better than none at all
We can watch it while the grey ones
Swim among the telephone poles
With nothing inside we’re filled up
Like a gumball machine of lies
Brain got bigger but it
Beat our hearts to a pulp

Man in neck brace
Needs a shoulder
He can't stand up
He can't stop crying

Man owns a cage
Asks for a quarter
"Dance you puppet
I own your daughter"

No ****** Killer
Just Bad Company
Sociopaths
Don't need no filler

Steal your brain-child
Pillage your roots
Barefoot poser
He sure has boots

Dancing fool
Masquerader
Bidding for wolves
Is not crazy wisdom
(You ******* traitor)

Tree split right down the middle
Between grey-black storm clouds
And a yellow lush meadow
Blame it on the lightning
But you should know better
Blame it on the fact that
The roots needed to get wetter
But we all know the division
Was caused by the incision
Of curiosity in paradise
And a clock with a nasty vice

*I set the two earth candles on the mantle without a care
Then placed Saturn in between with a Japanese flair
Unintentional, but I was setting myself a trap
We're all puppets basking in the orange-glow aftermath

This is the theatre of bubblegum dread
A daily dose of drama for your head
Mythic proportions, gloomy with steam
It made the top ten in your dreams
Avant-garde and ancient still
Calm but violent is his will
Here’s a dose for your blood and spine
Subtract those who ain’t alive
Apocalyptic, judging sneer
Fields of green by yellow smeared
Pure expressions of existence and joy
But school is out, no more films or ploys
Surrender to the unwaking moments
Soul of a clown, basked in loneliness
Psychological heart trip-up
Be careful or you might get stuck
Storms roll by when you’re with your cosmic mate
A chess game for the ******, a wave to fate
Drowned the lizard in a make-believe Rhine
It only cost you about three dimes

The war finally ended
Now I’m competing with silence
Went out with electricity
And fell into the shady parts of a dream
I remember, dreaming by day
Under the sun my will of instinct gave way
To a place in the garden where I was sound and safe
The hungry gorge of my heart
Swallowed by the abyss
It bought a ticket to a ride
As a monster sleeping under a tree
His sweet delights belong in heaven
But endless nights come as 70x7
Don’t let him become extinct
It’ll be quite awhile before he sees the pink again
Adventuring erratically through the stars
Should not be a crime
Should not be a lesson to those who can’t travel far
So crucify the insincere
Dissolve the tribe
Let them hear the truth
Reigning off the rooftops of your mind
Your interpretations are nothing
But umbrellas of power
I rather sit in my own sun-shower
And watch them paint over their third eye
With television and false contritions
Liberating landscapes of dreams
Till no one can find their wings

It goes in, it goes out
The cause and the cure
The faith and the doubt
It goes out, it goes in
Cyclical nature
Miracle and sin

Checked into hotel Cali
They say it all comes down to balance
But I know they're casting spells so
Next time I'll have no allowance

But I've seen the magic, in the unfolding
Unyielding power of something divine
Nobody's perfect, I'm the furthest thing from it
I've been this way for all of my lives

Will I reach the next number
Will I graduate
Should I give in
Or wave goodbye to fate

It's closing in now
They're closing in now
Is this the whole story
This can't be my story...

There’s a war raging on outside my back door
There’re wars running wild across the seas
But the one war that really aches my core
Is the one going on inside of me

It’s a war between the bitter and the sweet
The heart and the head
The feet and the knees
It’s a war between the wants and the needs
The ocean and the sky
The blood and the bleed

There’s a war raging on outside my back door
There’re wars running wild across the seas
But the one war that really aches my core
Is the one going on inside of me

What mirrors of sickness breed
In the tug o’ war between the sleep and the dreams
Cruelty of the bed, mercy of the sheets
Pain of a body with the soul of a beast

I can tell you're ripe
Killing me with kind
So don't mind if I just unwind
While you **** a smile-
But baby, I'm not disarmed
You make quite the cocktail
And I paint quite the picture
You don't quiet down in spite of me
And I don't pretend that it doesn't hurt to breathe
This is the way things must be
My own demented version of healthy
Your one-dimensional reality
And the silence makes three
So go ahead, do what you need to
Look up, forth, back, down but never through
I'll just slouch and smoke till I get the joke
And count the times you never blinked
Closer to my skin you were
Till things took another turn
Now I'm prying my eyes
And crying your thoughts
From heart to spine
Fingertip to elbow
Gives a whole new meaning to
You had me at hello

Snap goes the jacket
Snip goes the tongue
****, put a sock in it
You're stamped, you're done
The hole in your fashion
Lets the dark genie in
See the naturally magical lights
Ignore the projector below
I aspired to spiral until I grew tired
But somebody's fangs ****** the right from the wild
So now I disguise all my gut feelings in the soup
Cause a riddle for Mary's a magnet for you

Church bells ring as a train chugs along
I can't hear planes much
But every time I look up
I see one
And the birds stick to trees
Or a brief wispy breeze
The only ones higher are too busy
Looking down, circling
And all the clutter and clatter
Makes me want to batter some heads in
These objects look foreign, forged from a rolling pin
And they're just pretty guts and grey matter
I don't have the money to become an astronaut
So how can I know for sure that space exists
And if the final frontier is the mind
How far have we to go
After all I can tie my shoes with one or two bows
An every holy man seems to have
A wall street connection
And when Jesus says ****
You know he means business
And my tax dollars just went off
And killed a little kid
If the world ended
When we all stopped dancing
That must mean we're zombies
Especially the prom queen

I just wanted you to show up
You just wanted a show
You just wanted me to grow up
I just wanted to grow
Except this time you see
Desire hanging from the tree
And this time I see
Fear twirled around my knees
And you always remember
The ones who succeed
And I always recall
The ones falling free
Guess you’re lounging by the hub
And I’m swinging on the rim
You need to be immersed in it all
I need to learn to swim
You surround yourself with glamour
While I play in thunderstorms
You attack my ugly wounds
But your beauty sure has thorns
Now I just want a show
And you just want to grow up
For I am you and you are me,
Wedded to each other’s calamity,
Until this big world blows up