Thursday, December 28, 2006

Behind the Covers

Just cause there are bridges
In life to be crossed
Doesn't mean
You're not better staying where you are

Just cause you don't need
Anyone's advise
Doesn't mean
That they're either wrong or right

The earth turns
To keep you going round
You have to stand
So they can knock you down
Fight hard
But not all battles can be won
They told you lies
So they could keep you young

Just cause the heart
Knows what it wants
Doesn't mean
You're better moving on

Just cause they're all
Leaping off the edge
Doesn't mean
It's right to stay there on the bridge

Chorus

Just cause all these bridges
Can be burned
Doesn't mean
You're done with lessons learned

Friday, November 10, 2006

Fantasy is Dying

Of course, Of course
Set the stars to fall
Take the earth by her reigns
Flood to Hell all her halls
We won't ever be again

Called me up late last night
Dr. is everything alright?
He said to me
Sorry to say
But the fantasy is dying
Burnt away

So when she looks
When she says stay
I can't except her words
Are they real, or is it fake
I know, we'll never be again

Run away with me now
Close my eyes as you fade tonight...
All I ever wanted
Is inside of your eyes in mine
The fantasy is dying again

Friday, October 27, 2006

Dealate

I believe
I believe
I'll be leaving
When you see the stars starting to shine
When the moon shines with reflected glory
Over the decaying day
I'll be gone

It may just cost
Everything
Tear away from this plane
Divested interest
It may just be
Growing against the grain

Away
Away
Find a way
To shed the skin of this former life
To shred all the evidence of losses
I will find a way
I'll be gone

Thursday, October 26, 2006

Galvani

And so you feel
That you failed
In all your life you tried
You never were
Anything more
Actually you were less
And it's almost a relief
Now
To bid your cares goodbye
But
I...

You awaken the scientist in me

You're better off
It was your fault
Right?
Or else your wife's
Right?
You never became
Your full potentiality
Well they'll have you hung
Yes, but
My nephew will see to
Will help you see too
The truth in full
Locked away in you

You awaken the scientist in me
Crawling underneath the skin
Webs of electricity
You awaken in me...
Like a bad dream

You set in motion
And I
Set in motion
The evidence we both need
You lived your life
But never felt alive
Well you'll see
What you awaken in me

You awaken the scientist in me
Electrodes in my head
Spike electricity
You awaken in me...
Like a bad dream



Thursday, September 07, 2006

Mattoid

Quiet kids for serial killers
And Bullies make good preachers
Inside every arsonist
Lies a better teacher

Sister Margaret Morgan teaches
Thou shalt, wilt thou, kneeling
The hardest thing she never learned
Was how to keep believing

In my place
Put me in my place
Put me in my place
Where we belong

Idealists are hostages
To their train of thought
The ghosts of celebrities
Now can all be bought

In my place
Put me in my place

Saturday, July 15, 2006

Comes the Dawn

Comes the blood rush to my head...
And I still hear
Voices calling out
Near the trees I make my bed
In the dark
I lay me down

Just a shadow past midnight
For a second
Catch my breath
Feel the running down of time
Trying hard
Just to sense

Run my hands through the tall grass
Fields of time sewn in tares
To where you always said you'd haunt
But it seems you aren't there

Now where am I to go?
Staying here
In this field
Will I become the ghost?
By your thoughts
I come to kneel

Run my hands through the tall grass
Fields of time sewn in tares
To where you always said you'd haunt
But it seems you aren't there

Friday, July 14, 2006

Number's Up

I don't wanna die live alone
Be exist without a tone
Feel the weight of Heaven
Rest upon my naked chest
I don't want this Hell
Or remain an empty shell
Be a happy hypocrite
With words I can't repent

All the faces that I see seem to be overlooking me
Daring me to take that step and further my oblivion
Hold me close
Hold me now don't look away
Were we where we mind?

I don't want to strengthen break
Stand up for the standings sake
Have my heart handed
Back before it's even spent
I don't want the stars
Or kingdoms wide and far
Just to sing myself to sleep
and slip off to never dream

All the faces that I see seem to be overlooking me
Daring me to take that step and further my oblivion
Run away with me
Run away and let's stay gone
Just don't look away
Just don't look away
Were we where we mind?

Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Firefly

Firefly,
Don't let your light
Blow out
Don't let your sky
fall down
Don't let your light...

Everyone's got their own
Little everyone
And all around I feel
Feel alone tonight
When the air fills your lungs
Long enough to catch it's breath
And storm out again
When you take that first step
Realize,
You're out on your own tonight

Don't let the light
Blow out
Don't let the sky
Fall down
Don't let your light...
Firefly

All the places I could go
Seem out of place
And in the back of my mind
I feel alone tonight
When your heart skips a beat
Because of something it has seen
Could this be love?
Go on and take that first step
Realize,
You're still on your own tonight

Don't let your light
Blow out
Don't let your sky
Fall down
Don't let your light...
Firely

Well it's you
and me
Just you and me
Together here
You and me
Just you and me
Firefly

Not Left Behind

Easy does it now
With steady hands
Where you set it
How you handle her
Gentle, careful now
There's nothing left
But respect to all
That we lay rest

And even if you never come around here
Past today
In simple lines
All we've loved
Not left behind

Speak the words
But say them carefully
How you send her now
To just our dreams
And don't talk to me
As if you knew her well
Reciting idioms
For Heaven and Hell

My heart is breaking
Like the flowers
Making waves upon her chest
All we've seen
All we've loved
Laid to rest

Monday, May 01, 2006

Through An Eye Darkly

She closed the door
She seems a million miles away
Just standing there
She's only nine years old
But her eyes read seventeen
I guess she's seen too much
I guess she's lost herself
Today

I met her in a Mirror
Seemed so curious to see
Standing there
Just looking back at me

I met her in a Mirror...

I saw him bow his head
In anger or from grief
On his knees
He speaks with candle flame
As blood runs down his cheek
I guess he should've known
I guess he lost himself
Today

I met him in a Mirror
Seemed so curious to see
Kneeling there
Just looking back at me

I met him in a Mirror...

All now
Where you go,
Mary dear?
Gone to find my soul
Oh no
Where you go,
Mary dear?
Gone to wear my home

I dropped my eyes low
Felt the thunder fill the walls
As I stood there
I tried to wish away
The worst of my bad dreams
I guess I think too much
I guess I lost myself
Today

They saw me in a Mirror
So curious to see
Looking back at me

I saw me in a Mirror...

Friday, March 24, 2006

More Than You've Known

I don't write
But I write for you
This cozy little dismal narative
Colidescope of burnt out truths
I don't write
But I'll see you soon

I don't sing
Like I did before
For the choir's unattentively
Wrapped in old Metaphors
I don't sing
But I'll sing once more

Locked inside her hours
Painted faces like clocks
Standing there shaken
Cast upon the rocks
Silenced by visions
What cannot be, is set
The only reality I'm facing
Hasn't even happened yet

Wednesday, February 22, 2006

All that's left

If, all else fails
We still have the
Last moments
Gleamed from a corrupted youth
Like silver drips on a spiders web
All that's left
Is not left up to us

When, things ran dry
The peace was held
For awhile
Inside the hope you had
For another chance tomorrow
But all that's left
Is now gone

Leaving again
Come back with me
And we'll be
One more time, we
Will stand as one
In time

So simple a thing
Playing all fall
Down we go
Till we rip apart at
What seemingly kept us close
And all that's left

Isn't right

Sunday, January 29, 2006

Know this...


In the minds
And on the tongues
A thousand lines
And verses hung
Of simple words
And those made wrong
Of bitter silence
Growing long

Trippin'
Trippin' day to day
Run along,
Run along and play
Yeah, go and play
Sometimes it's the things you don't say