I’m wasted on
Mistrusted remedies misplaced among a messy world
Amidst the misappropriated masterpieces
Lost within our land
We were made for mighty minds
Need to metamorphosize
Find time
Stop the blind fantasizing
Come to die
Otherwise,
We future butterflies
Are consequently caterpillars
Falling from the trees
Can’t fly yet
Although we deny it
We are earthbound
Unfound but by the resounding sound of the hounds of time
And they will find us as we hide beneath our fear
Of death
Or we could face it
Face them, face death
This breath could be the last of the old way
The old order
At the border and the shore
Of life we know
Lets set sail
And stop pretending

I know it’s coming
There’s a mending

A trusted remedy
I beg you please
Don’t expect it from me

But if there’s a spirit in your flesh
Take the road and let it groan
For your home
Then listen

See there’s a meaning to the madness
It distracts us
From the atlas
In our souls
Neatly folded
Put on hold
The search for gold
Till we have time
Maybe till we’re older
Baby maybe till we’re bolder
Stay awake and let’s be soldiers
Storm the gates although they smolder
Though they’re heavier than boulders
Time to take back
What was stolen
Before time

I wish I knew how to
Freeze myself
In a cryochamber
So I could wake up
In fifty years or so
When no one will
Remember me
Or what I've done

I learn to dance with the wind.
I learn to scream out loud.
I learn to write down my illusions;
And I learn listen with my heart.

But why is it so hard
To be the one who lives the life
In chaos?
And why is it so hard to live the life
In utter solitude?

I am in confusion on what to live.
But then again i realize,i live them both
Which makes it even harder.
I am not prepared.

I am not prepared
For the world's rising waves.
The waves, that will sooner crash
Unto my sleepless soul.

I'll wake up soaked with my own dreams,
Or should I say,nightmares masked by my daydreams.
I walk the shore of obscurity,
And I fly the depths of my world.

I'll drown myself in a cheap bottle of wine,
And I'll fall asleep on the sight of glimmering reflection of water.
I'll loose myself in the sound of music
And leave trails of obvious insanity.

This insanity  is my remedy.
Aside from the cruel world I live.
I dive into to water without second thoughts
I am chaotically peaceful.

All day I watch the horrors of modern life come screaming in on four wheels with lights flashing
    “Code Blue, ER, Room 6!”
    “Code Blue, ER, Room 6!”
I drive home exhausted
Spacing out to familiar tunes as the wind blows my hair away from my face
Letting the emotional baggage of the work day slip out the window into the night air
    But still
That tenseness in the shoulders remains.

Then I walk in the door
And two pairs of eyes
    Both the same shade of rusty brown
And two smiles
One toothless
The other filled with perfect shining white teeth
    Both glowing with love
Greet me.

This is who I do it for.

I kiss one chubby little cheek
    I kiss one set of waiting lips
And my shoulders relax.

"Baby, baby why can't you sit still?
Who killed that bird out on you window sill?
Are you the reason that he broke his back?
Did I see you laugh about that?
If I come on like a dream?
Would you let me show you what I mean?
If you let me come on inside?
Will you let it glide?

Can I have some remedy?
Remedy for me please.
Cause if I had some remedy
I'd take enough to please me.

Baby, baby why did you dye your hair?
Why you always keeping with your mother's dare?
Baby why's who's who, who know you too?
Did the other children scold on you?
If I come on like a dream?
Would you let me show you what I mean?
If you let me come on inside?
Will you let it slide?"

Black Crowes

My remedy,

My penance,

My salvation,

Rests on your smile.

Is it right
Maybe not
This ache to write
Is it all for naught
Merely a false rite
But it ties the knot
In my plight
One shot
At your delight