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garbage

i stand in the corner and watch you undress
the lies of omission have left such a mess.
back down the hallway when you were king
you shot up the windows but you missed everything
and i can't clean it up, no, i can't clean it up
when i could hear her it was just like she said
"there is time for the living and deeds for the dead"
and i can't clean it up, no, i can't clean it up….

alien day

morning's still asleep and the stars won't
sing just because i want them to.
and the prairie is sad and blue,
underneath this anorexic moon.
but the dogs run anyway and the snow can't hide a thing
in the tunnels where tiny hearts race a fiction of escape.
i am one small voice in one mute field
but this is what i have and i raise it to the heavens.
but the bombs fly anyway. all your gods won't fix a thing
in the tunnels where tiny hearts race a fiction of escape.
but you left anyway. all your words don't say a thing.
there are tunnels where
tiny hearts race.

speechless

the stars are stuttering, a sickle moon prepares to
harvest every participle in the sky.
(speechless)
the words that get away, dragging a chalk-tail on
the blackboard disappear into the atmosphere.
speechless.
(it can take care of itself)
my lip's geometry, my algebraic tongue is tied
to the whipping post of proofs and theories.
(speechless)
i pray for logic, i pray for rai, puddles of letters
gather in the thirsty hollows of my neck
speechless.
(it can take care of itself)
i eat them one by one. they taste like
dustyroomssaltyskincrimsonplums.
(all that I'll ever need, speechless, inside)

stone

took this stone out of my heart and gave it to the willing river.
the stars were making lots of noise and gossip filled the
crowded heavens. there's no place for all this yearning when
no time is made to grieve. on this failing rock that's burning –
the sound of money in the trees.

not the same

you have the same eyes, you have the same arms
hung on the same frame, but you look different somehow.
this is the same house hidden in the oaks and pines, and over
the hill, the prairie still sighs. I thought i heard you pull in the driveway
but you were driving farther away.

you have the same mouth – it used to kiss me, it used to smile.
you said you'd be here when I got home
but you haven't been here for awhile
O -- the love we make
O -- the mess that's left behind when you get tired
i swept your hair up from the bathroom floor, threw up in the
sink and left you on the street with her. I watched you turn away
from me in the rear view mirror, but you are getting smaller all the time.

the beating

i open up my mouth, listen to me –
you tell me i don't belong but here i am.
i can walk away from you but you can't make me go away.
here, this is what i made, take it from me please,
it is all i have to give to you today.
you tell me it's not enough, well, i have had enough of you.
if sticks and stones can break my bones
then your words could kill me
I'm going deaf and dumb hear no evil tell no lie
stick my finger in the barrel of your tongue.
all your power made you blind, no more pearls before the swine.

red dust

out in your country - i'm not there
but you send me colors in frames, i line them up on the stairs.
people are dancing. you wear your new shoes.
the sleepy town turned the speakers up loud to drown out the news.
heaven. I'm in heaven where you left me watching you
in a boat on the mekong. the water is brown.
you jumped in with your clothes on and floated with the clouds.
"there's no need to paint the town red", you said, "it's always done."
red dust in the evening on everything and everyone.
heaven. i'm in heaven where you left me when you left me....

farther along (trad.)

tempted and tried we're oft made to wonder why it should be thus all the day long while there are others living about us never molested though in the wrong. farther along we'll know all about it. farther along we'll understand why. cheer up my brother live in the sunshine. we'll understand it all by and by. when death has come and taken our loved ones we feel a hole so lonely and drear. then do we wonder why others prosper living so wicked year after year. often i wonder why i must journey over a road so rugged and steep while there are others living in comfort here with the lost i labor and weep. farther along we'll know all about it. farther along we'll understand why. cheer up my sister, live in the sunshine. we'll understand it all by and by.

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I Don't Know [3.8 mb]
Alien Day [4.7 mb]
Red Dust [8.0 mb]

Blind Faith [2.3 mb]
Cherry [2.6 mb]

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