In Roses

Lacking conversation
Our words fall on the pavement
I’m no fool I can taste it
There is venom in your placement
So what’s left of our engagement
I’m a serpent I can’t fake it
And I kiss my words goodnight
With lover like attachment

And you say, “Is this love?”
And I say, “No it’s a drug”
But I’ve got this junkie blood
It’s unpredictable the patterns that my heartbeats tug

And I send sweet goodbyes in roses
And I kiss you goodnight in roses
And I tell my white lies in roses
And I send sweet goodbyes in roses

Got a mind like a basement with bat cave arrangements
Seeking new blood for poetic placement
Predacious engagements with no explanations
But this is real and I can’t resist it

And you ask, “Well is it love?”
And I say, “No it’s a drug”
But I’ve got this junkie blood
It’s unpredictable the patterns that my heartbeats tug

Love

It’s been spoken and spoken
Again and again and again
We’ve written it down and written it down
And sent it back and forth to each other
She says she's had enough
And you can never really have it
He wants it to be perfect and he’ll
Search the whole world to find it


And as we speak it’s being written in a letter
Just as she said it when they first got together
And as we speak it’s being written in a letter
Just as she said it when they first got together
Love, it’s a little thing they call love
Love, it’s a little thing they call love


Some of us have it and some of us want it
There’s a place in my heart that won’t seem to mend
And there’s a place in my brain that won’t forget about it
And my wires misfire when I try to send it
Isn’t it sweet when they say it to each other
It could solve a troubled world if we’d use it together
It could solve a troubled world if we’d use it together, together, together…

Galactic Love

A full moon in the sky reflecting in your eyes
Together we watched as the clouds floated by
Moving so slowly it seemed like forever
But nothing lasts that long and soon they were gone


And trying as I'll do
Always to love you
It just doesn’t seem
That your love is so true


With stars as our blanket we almost can forget
All of those things that we haven’t said yet
As constant as the skies change my mind did rearrange
You asked me if things could ever be the same


And trying as I’ll do
Always to love you
It just doesn’t seem
That your love is so true


And trying as I’ll do
Always to love you
It just doesn’t seem
That your love is so true

Easy Livin'

And it’s easy to say
that you’re feeling ok
When you’re working all day
And it’s easy to say
that you’re pulling your weight
Putting money away
And it’s easy to say
that you’re feeling ok
When you’re working all day
And it’s easy to say
that you’re pulling your weight
Putting money away

And you care about your job
And you care about your dog
And you care about your god
And you care about your wife
And you care about your kids
And your care about your television

Oh, Oh and its easy living
Just can’t stop this easy living

Oh, Oh and its easy living
Just can’t stop this easy living

All day long talking on your phone
The latest gossip straight from home
What was that, who is she
This crazy life I can’t believe

No Direction

We all have problems
And I understand that
There’s no easy road
And well, I didn’t expect that
But I’m always nervous
And I can’t stop thinking
Can’t seem to focus
When everything’s changing

Got to get my feet on the ground
My head out of the clouds
Got to get my feet on the ground
Got to figure this one out
Got no direction
No direction

I think there’s something
In my brain
Cause the things that I say
They just come out that way
And i've got this little habit
Of checking the time
Watching it slip away's
A little hobby of mine
And i've got this little habit
Of checking the time
Watching it slip away's
A little hobby of mine

Scissors

New noise, old sound
Dead bodies lying all around
New story, old war
We had warned them they just didn’t care

They ran with scissors in the streets
And now they’re dying all around my feet
It’s a disaster, such a catastrophe
If you’d of been there, you would of run away

Cold concrete, cold steel
The city’s the only place I can feel
Dark alley, done deal
I could have stopped them but I felt too ill

They ran with scissors in the streets
And now they’re dying all around my feet
It’s a disaster, such a catastrophe
Why did they do it, they wouldn’t listen to me

Soon after the suicide, government officials
Wrote down the names of who died
They took the message, they sent it out
So many mothers trying to figure out

Graveyard Shift

They grow in the filth
And the grime of the redlight
Seeping contagious
They move under moonlight
Dark hallucinations
Conjured at midnight
They move in and out
Of the glow of the streetlight
Fogging up windows
And filling up basements
They’re growing in numbers
And when we try to escape them
When we try to escape them

It’s cause we can’t resist
It’s in the way they hiss
We see the whites of their eyes
As they start to twist
We do the graveyard shift

It’s cause we can’t resist
It’s in the way they hiss
We see the whites of their eyes
As they start to twist
We do the graveyard shift

From the stains on the walls
To the mud in the gutter
They’re coming from nothing
And they’re finding each other
Howling and screeching
And scraping on doorsteps
Creeping and crawling
And leaving their footsteps

Fix

Leaning ‘gainst a lamppost
You thought you saw the Holy Ghost
Well I suppose you took the wrong dose
And now your stomach
Well it’s feeling kind of gross
And it didn’t used to be like this
I didn’t used to need this fix
And its not that I want it now
But get my kicks in another way
I don’t know how

And I never knew that
we could have been so wrong
Not when time’s lasting us this long

You’re lying sick in the gutter
You always swore you wouldn’t go there
You left a trace of your blood there
I guess I thought you’d be more ashamed
And you always used to make it home
But now your outside all alone
You wish now you’d taken some advice
But it felt so good that you didn’t think twice

And I never knew that
We could have been so wrong
Not when time’s lasting us this long

We took a second together
Debated stopping would we ever
A bad decision was never
But you can pretend if you’d rather

Nile Style

It seems that lately a strange feeling's
Been controlling my mind
And I’m afraid I’ve given in this time
Because myself in the woods I did find
Far away from home and at a very late time
I was standing at the mouth of a cave
Strange and cold and dark as a grave

And I walked right in
As if there before I’d been
Walking through the dimming light
Till a voice gave me quite a fright
And a pair of fiery eyes
Gave me quite a surprise

And the voice said
Oh if you’ll stay with me
Everything is yours that you can see
Gold and silver, precious stones
A marble statue all your own
Eternal youth and endless time
The stars are yours if you’ll be mine

Oh how my eyes turned green
With the marvels I had seen
Jaded by the silver sheen
And the way the sapphire gleamed
And I could have everything
All I had to do was take his ring

Oh I wanted everything
Oh I wanted everything
Oh I wanted everything
And all I had to do was take his ring

Space Race

We believe in signs
Above concrete and metal lines
We are patient as the stars align
We are conscious of their strange design

And in each note and in each line
we pour our souls to redefine
To reinvent and rewire our minds
To find some truth in confused times