saying it for no reason
i love you anyway
i move to cause division
but hope just wont go away

dont bet on me
im only a let down
loves statutes tattooed
cant sweat that ink out

repeating for no reason
i love you anyway
still holding broken bits of hope
all these miles away

my soul is setteling
im trying to work my demons out
lotus blooms out of season
cant sweat that ink out

you know theyll ask the reason
why not give your love away?
tender is the season
i wonder then just what you'll say

no penitance

theres no penitance, past or present tense
stomach much tenser than a coil of snakes
poised to blame the first mistake
on anyone innocent enough to wonder by
but theres error in these ways
a glitch from the bottom to the top.
theres an opponent in my way
and im just learnning how to stare him square
doesnt matter if you try
his voice a trick, as it is mine
medicated meditations take me
practice opening my third eye

Sparrows Fall

Running on so little sleep

Falling in love with all the ruts ahead of me

Stumbling into shelves and beams

No one call a doctor to offer a remedy

I’m so dizzy I just can’t see

I keep it this way to escape reality

In this way I am free…

As free as a bird in the air

In the constant concrete clench of gravity

Pulling, gnawing with its precious teeth

This is the way the world is and forever will  be

No matter how high I dare

No matter how my doubt may shriek

My determination can’t suffer confusion

Though suffer the child it may be…

So I'll break through tomorrow 

with a sense of urgency

I'll take down my pain, ego and greed

Wake up on the sunny side of someday

a new and better me

The Night Is Long

Torch the buildings down

The rubble of our old conventions

Useless now it seems

Molding in the shadow of its own superstitions

Born to the flesh, but souls of stone

Roll the river bed, til theyre sharp no more

Lovers reflect, seak and find their own

Together then, to the distant shore

A Man, he suffer so he may know peace

Woman, she cry for when he leaves

Zero we came from and zero return

To the muck, the mire, the sandy shore

A burn in the flesh, and sharp as stone

Rolling in the bed, the night is a home

Lovers request, to seak and find their own

Together then, for the night is long

Wolf Story

Seperated by a fate unintended

Ventured home with events unexpected

The broken door, the screams from where we once rested

I grabbed my rifle from above the mantle

Charging up the stairs, my prayers went unanswered

When I entered the room, you were screaming in the corner

A dark loathsome beast hovered over you

I brought the rifle to my eye without a thought

I took aim at its heart and shot

The rifle made me deaf and for an instant everything was frozen

Then the beast turned on me,

Saw the rifle and jumped out the window

The loathsome creature was only injured

I ran to you and saw the horror

You had been badly bitten

And the change was already upon you

The face I loved, I lips I kissed

Sneared and snarled, spit and hissed

Pulled back to show teeth sharp and long

The fury in your screams already growing strong

I cried softly as you tried to tear my throat

Holding you softly, not letting you go

Then at last I could no longer hold you back

Shoving you in the corner hard

It made you collapse

I brought the rifle up to my weeping eye

And begged god to forgive me one last time

For a second I saw you hesitate

A moment where you almost looked the same

Then it was gone and you were in full swing of the change

Closing my eyes I let the barrel blast

Without opening my eyes, I tuned the room and left

Now im damned and damned til death
I see only the beast, as it is all I have left
I seek it, and death, from place to place

The beast’s damned offspring, I wander and slay

The loathsome cousins of my beloved wife

So that I may sleep again, alone some night 

For The Glory

You will see

And you will be seen

You will go and spread your golden wings

And they will all come

To worship at your glory
Fickle interest will wane

Then they will each leave

All tired of your story

You know we will declare it

As we worry away our lives

And we sing our songs so loudly

Just to keep the cold outside

We burn the fire brightly

To keep away our demise

Oceans break over mountains

Making only shores in the morning
Scattered white bits on the beaches

Scavenging the shells for a reason

To go along

To move, to finish this song

To mill the wood and words

To put the world to work

Gorgeous green eyed  morning

To worry away this solid rock

To write these words all wrong

If only to finish this story

To grieve for whats long gone

Pain is in the nature of loves glory

To forget is all too easy

I paid all my conscience debt

Now I just wanna walk away from it

I made up my bed

And all the stains that came with it

Ive been framed in a life

That fits all wrong

The shakin in the walls made the picture fall

Broken wood and busted glass

Remind me whats inside my chest

Recently I think I found

A reason to move on and out

 It came when I saw

What made me wanna put out my eyes

You and that strange other guy

But I left without a sentence

Made my way back home and began to pack

Cuz it seems in this grande scheme

To forget is all too easy
I think that its time to go

(To the coast that I know

I love I love where I begun

And ill move through there, real slow

Spots scatter and dance

Lasting through the fire

Living in her brilliance

Fevers burn desire,

Embers embrace a kiss.

Further to admire

Guide inside the bliss.

Flash point speaks the highlight

Grasping at the dreaming fireflys

Miracles seem so plausible

Everythings blue in this light

Footing lost in sand

Lost in water

Lost in waves

Moments lost even farther..

I guess way too much

Enough to pave a grave for us

Unused to thinking on my own

Without a soul

To take care of

Even though theres no atoning

For all the wrong I did

But even a saint can be wicked…

Drive the car away

The distance makes the picture stretch

Its pretty the way that photos burn

To see the flames kiss the sketch

Leave it in ashes in an urn

It Is Time

Happiness blooms in the room

In big happy grey smoke plumes

Rising in the air, everyones feeling ire

Take the high road, and all the good of life

Theres too much peace to say no

The high road, it’s the river of life

Lay back and let it flow

The river is gonna carry us

How far will it go?

It will do as it will

Lay back and let the river flow

Worried about the how come

The why and what for?
Missing out on now.

Watching the time pass
As it pass for sure

Through the light in the trees.

Something new around  every bend

Resting on the shore

Casually escaping me

Is This Our Progress?

The stupid fact

That youre moving on

Isn’t any easier

Because I moved so far

Away

California and Washington stars are the same

Go to the bar and try and act far

Too naturally

It seems so far away

remembering how far we came

is this what becomes of our progress?

Rusting in the sea air

Leaving lasting impressions

Lasting impressions of what once was there

Is this my solace?

Running through my head

Remembering how far we came