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Tommy Johnson Dec 2013
Life charges at you
So hold still and embrace it
When it makes contact
It is what it is

Look at it sideways
Look straight on
Don’t be scared, look from another glass
It’s all perception

All alone in the quiet den
The winter’s kiss caresses my face
One of the lucky ones
For this moment I’m blessed

How did it get this bad?
I hope I do not make my home in those feelings
Trapped in an emotional enigma

I recall sitting there
With the angels smiling at me
The candles we’re all lit
And I felt safe, I felt sane

Because it was grand
I was told it was magic
There was no question
It was still the beginning
Tommy Johnson Dec 2013
I’ll see you very soon
I’ll see you in time
Concentrate on breathing
I can see you’re tired

Bets are off tonight girl
Let the armatures try
Evoking your emotions
In your predetermined life

You’ll see me very soon
You’ll see me in time
Your visions way to crowded
By the advertisements lies

So what’s left?
They say you can’t
Ever decide
All alone with your slowly fading light

We’ll see each other soon
We’ll be there in time
I can’t help you break free
I’m not your messiah

Hear me
I love you I can’t watch you die
Burning on in your unsatisfying life
Endless fight
Daddy’s lies
Tommy Johnson Dec 2013
In our bright winter’s morning, I drive up the road
Wipers brushing off the leftover flakes
The heat melting the snowy excess
In a flashback I remember the warm sand between my toes
And the ocean’s fist making contact with mine
The waves cracking from the collision of our blows
I smile but I am sulking on the inside
Yet hopefulness grips my train of thought
Two more seasons and I’ll be back just like that
I’ll be back on the beach, happy
And hopefully
She’ll be there too
Tommy Johnson Dec 2013
Every coin has two sides
What do I want I can’t decide?
I’ll catch it on the flipside
Or maybe I’ll just take some time

What do I desire?
What is it that I fear?

Let the rain wash my mind
So it’ll be easy to find
The answers that lay inside
Yeah I think it’ll take some time

What do I desire?
What is it that I fear?
What do I aspire
Solutions drawing near

Fear to take a chance
The fear to be happy
I’ll let the coin land
And then I will see

What do I desire?
What is it that I fear?
What do I aspire
Solutions drawing near
Tommy Johnson Dec 2013
Covert vitality of Armageddon restricted by rebirth
Unsavory ****** politicians
Calling the number with nothing to say “You came here to see something else!”
"Tell the truth"
As the stage collapses, you must continue to play the ***** to this oral copulation
The American past time of violence
Memories of Kent State
The self degradation of this generation
Manson has enlightened me
Hear the breath of the noncompetitive child
It’s not as it seems
It does not need saying, go now
Are you still there?
No one here leaves unscathed
Mental convulsions
Can't burn out if you were never lit up
Never forget
Remember what?
Croon on you soggy soul, oh ghost king
Organize a mass killing, giving something for them to believe in
Gay rights
Night lights
They're afraid of the dark
Frightened of change
Eat thy broken corn
Ignore thy ladies scorn
Commemorate my existence
Contemplate my extinction
Killing celebrities
Counting calories
A drunken foul swoop
My girl was swooning for him, a car crash ended that
If I was to die would you come to my wake?
Or just sigh then turn away?
Once you put it all in your no longer innocent
Miscalculations of religious speculations
Always bring me back here long neck bottle of smoldering steam
My selfish needs have brought me back here
My unkind deeds and my fear
Now I bow before you offering my spirit
Save me from being cast out to this world unknown
Tommy Johnson Dec 2013
Now morning comes with her brilliant glow
Today, we shall go back to the time I was orphaned
I’m finally prepared to come to terms with my origins

One afternoon he found himself in an abandoned car
With an unfamiliar beast snoring in the backseat
Blood dripped from its yellow hide
Every home repeats a cycle
Endless circle
The is cage locked until show time
Now rest, rest
Carpet stains, cracks in the windows
Sweep the dust under the carpets
Many affairs stick on these sheets
Virginities lost in the comforter

Starving untamed animals prowling the sidewalks, breathing heavy
A monster chained to the lies of the town
The tragic fate of his father
Decaying on the winter’s avenue
He ran out of the city

       -Tommy Johnson

He headed north across state lines
Leaving destruction and annihilation behind
No second thoughts in his mind

Hurry out the door run
See
Temptation’s on her way
I cannot survive this, every time she moves in closer
I allow my wall to come down
Feel the cold fear on the back of my neck
The howl of the coyote in the distance

The coyote was jet black
Frizzed and hungry
And I was too frightened to even look
The blankets were steaming locks
And my love was underneath me
So beautiful my love
Her eclipsing black eyes
Her soft, sweet tasting lips

We are all here
The values and morals we all held dear are now gone

What’s your pleasure, what’s your pain?
Are you clever, are you sane
You don’t know and now it seems
That your soul cannot be tamed
The taste of fame, this is new
Now you thrive, now you lose
Now you fear the rule of two
Just play your role and make it through

Stare deep in the universal mind
The answers to ancient riddles you shall find
The sun burns endlessly on the city
Above and beyond its limits
And the green pastures beside the calmly flowing rivers
Underneath the silent other worldly shadows of
Weary mountain men, on the cliff just over there
Wild dogs congregating
Hieroglyphics, fallout shelters, new advancements in self awareness
Hold on
The dead still linger here
Don’t pause or make one false move
My suitcase and briefcase are on the floor
We’re heading for the door
And we’re leaving now
And I guess you’re coming with me

She can’t lift the curse
I am not the one
There are a certain few who can
Trust
No one


Fighting for their lives
Crowd is screaming "die"
Savages and thieves
Bringing victims to their knees
The innocent come but never leave
Some one

Come with me
Just trust me
Some one

We hid from the swarm of nonsense and swill
The rich hide in their mansions in fear
The dead are rotting and no one cares
And we’re just lucky to be left alive

Come to me
Trust in me
Some one

His time was cut short because he crossed the line
We should have seen it, he said he was fine
The three spoke steering wheel he was behind
Enraged and drunk out of his mind

Come with me
Just with me
Some one

There are people who live their lives without faith
Now a priest is on trial and charged with ****
By some one who thought he was somebody they had known
Then and there the answer was shown

Talk with me
Look at me
Some one

Run
Drown
Die
I will make you mine
Mine

It was the blackened coyote
It's chaotic tranquility

We came home from
Laconia and Meredith
El Passo disillusioned
We hurried home
Past the lakes and the roads
We returned home with
Our tales so tall
For ten years I tried
To live on the island of Elba
The mind games I played there
Now I have returned
To the place of freedom, bravery and wisdom
Mother, father of the west
Infant moonlight
Which of you shall partake in this commemoration?
Tommy Johnson Dec 2013
Cocktail slamming
She grabbed him and reached for the sun
And returned after a while
Seeming like she had to tell me
Said she was the one who loves me
Now my nerves are all riled
And I just don’t know

Mismatch socks yeah, I know you
Won’t pay your late fee
As long as the snake charmers around
Temptation will **** ya
Fetish paraphelia
You wanna be gagged and bound
In the most intoxicating wine we will drown

Rain clouds come and heal this drought
Table for two
Room with a view
Thunder’s heavenly sound

Go down
To the other side of town
I know a few
That might be able to
Help us out

Insane romance
No more chances, you can afford
Another drink although you say you could
It really goes to show
Even though you’ve sworn
You’re not on board
And your judgments not so good
Let’s just wait a little while

I’m not proud
Of how this all turned out
Who could have knew?
And look through
And seen what she was all about

They count
The treasures they have found
Conclusions drew
Captain and crew
Discovering the world is round
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