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I used to read her like a book
Now she’s closed to me
I used to only need one look
Now she’s a mystery
Like an ancient epigraph
on a mystic scroll
Words that used to make her laugh
Seems we’ve lost control
I dream she’ll someday change her mind
She’s melting slowly over time
I take a basket to the park
Plan a lunch for two
But it’s only my blue spark
Lights the avenue
For she is nowhere to be seen
On my color chart
In between the blues and greens
Of my shattered heart
I dream she’ll someday change her mind
She’s melting slowly over time
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Bears:
See the ones see the ones see the little ones
With just the mother and father protecting them
Unknowingly invading our territory
If we fight we can surely take them on
We will surround them kill off the elders
Take their bodies and cubs to feed our families
Winter Wolf (attacking):
Come closer and you all will be crucified
One by one you will die with my fangs inside
Gnashing out your throats with bloody glory
Retreat now and I guess I shall spare you all
Just some wounds on your skin that make you feel small
Run and hide Run and hide but don’t fuck with me!
Bears:
This little devil before us has some fight in him
I fear he means harm while protecting them
Run away run away leave them be for now
We have our wives and our kids that depend on us
We’ve let this little baby cub get the best of us
We will retreat back and leave you all to pass on by
Dad and Family respond:
Oh my God Oh my son!
Do you see what he has done?
Protecting our family he’s proved himself to us
Come Mother, Come wolf clubs
Lets’ help him lick his wounds
My odd little baby, now proud to call my own
Now proud to call my own
You’re strong and you’re loyal, you’re rightly one of us
Come here my winter wolf, I was wrong to cut you off
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The sound a sunset makes
Setting on today
The feel of an ocean wave
Wishing it would stay
The pain of a breaking heart
The ache of promises heard
The signs of the life we impart
Wisdom found in words
And I thought we still had tomorrow
To hold on to today
I wonder how it must feel now
To watch it all slip away
Learning to love
Loving to live
Is easier than it is hard
And harder to forgive
Wanting to know
Knowing to see
Seeing to pray
Praying to be set free
And I thought we were left with sorrow
To keep the joy at bay
I wonder why it always turns out to be
More of the same
Wishing to stay
The feel of an ocean's wake
Cause living today
It's the sound a sunset makes
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The Happiness App
There’s hope in everyone
There’s hope in everyone
I hope I’m one
I melt inside a dream
I melt inside a dream
Inside a stream
I open up
my Happiness App
my Happiness App
I cry a million tears
I cry a million tears
A million years
I smile but
am sad
I smile but I am sad
When I feel bad
I open up
my Happiness App
my Happiness App
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I’ve written it cryptically
I’ve written it plain
I’ve written it optimistically
But nothing has changed
I’ve written it happy, written it sad
Written it lonely, written it mad
And just when I think I’ve written it
Every way I can
I go and pick up the pen
And write it all over again (cause)
It’s so much easier to hide
My feelings in between the lines
Wearing my best disguise
Writing the song
that I’ve written a million times
I bury my intentions deep
Under my chords and melodies
Wonder if you can see
I’ve been writing the song
That I’ve written a million times
I’ve written you gracious
I’ve written you mean
I’ve made you the hero and the villain
And the gray that we’re all living in between
In metaphors and catchy phrases
Vocal runs, I run away from
All the words I still don’t have the nerve to say
I go and pick up the pen
And write it all over again
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Me and my band of four
Wandering were
Under a gibbous moon
Dressed in feathers and furs
Then I heard a melody
Drifting through the trees
It pulled me with a gentle hand
Away from my company
Then I tripped on a toadstool
Collapsing to the ground below
That’s when the lady from the mountain
Came down to say hello
She wore the mask of a magpie
She had dragonfly wings
I was searching for the words to ask
What does it all mean?
Then she placed a slender finger
Reproachful on my lips
And laughing at me lightly
She began to sway her hips
She sang:
Don’t talk to strangers, don’t talk at all
You’re not in danger, so let yourself fall
Love’s not a language, it’s a mountain stream
So drink from the water and let yourself dream
I awoke up on the forest floor
The sun was midway ‘cross the sky
The pines were whispering politely
And shielding the light from my eyes
I was weary in my body
But I had clarity of mind
My spirit was soaring
As if I’d drunk a skin of wine
And I sang
Don’t talk to strangers, don’t talk at all
I’m not in danger, I’ll let myself fall
Love’s not a language, it’s a mountain stream
So I’ll drink from the water and let myself dream
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Kiss My Sky Blue
The blend of some amorphous streak
Finding that the wheel keeps spinning
It's inspirin'- opened up my eyes
Until I... and then over the handlebars you go, now
Oberline's a close, close miss; it is
Kisses, warm kisses
Kiss my sky blue
Me personally- I lost the script
But a hand on my back said "Nice try- you may skip to the front of the class
Pad yourself"...and then over the handlebars you go, now
Oberline's a close, close miss; it is
Kisses, warm kisses
Kiss my sky blue
Oberline- kiss my sky blue
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Ticking clocks, the Jabberwocks raise hell for Richelieu
Naked time, gone inside, empty shelves, they’re missing you
They’re missing you
Heretics, derelict, floating on a sea of glass
Siren song, something’s wrong, Hell is coming moving fast
It’s moving fast
Said the Gnostic to the man
There’s a prison in your hand
It’s been there since time began
The demiurge, his head in sand
Made from dust, the blooded rust creeps slowly from your vein
Make believe, so naive, on the floor like gentle rain
From your vein
Said the Gnostic to the man
There’s a prison in your hand
It’s been there since time began
The demiurge, his head in sand
Yaldabaoth
Demiurge
Our father
Lost
No bother
Misguided
Ignited
The fire
The spiral
Monsters there, in the square, dancing to a gypsy tune
It’s so weird, it disappeared, and I’m here still in my room
In my room
Said the Gnostic to the man
There’s a prison in your hand
It’s been there since time began
The demiurge, a head in sand
Morning sun, one and done
Sweating bullets in the street
Paradigm, lost in time
Lost yourself in your conceit
Your conceit
Yaldabaoth
Yaldabaoth
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v1:
Watching from the wings
Hearing flowers sing
Let the magic flow
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Grace, the smell of rain
Porcupines in trains
We may never know
ch:
And all the while it's nothing but the dreams of your own mind
Go back to sleep so nothing changes
Before you wake I think that you should know you're out of time
Or maybe it's just all the same here
v2:
Falling from the skies
Teardrops inside eyes
Do you understand?
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Freshly fallen snow
Angels from below
Platypus or man?
ch:
And all the while it's nothing but the dreams of your own mind
Go back to sleep so nothing changes
Before you wake I think that you should know you're out of time
Or maybe it's just all the same here
v3:
Do you feel it getting quiet?
Do you sense a gentle riot?
Or is it it pretend?
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Not always what you think
But mostly on the brink
Shall we begin?
ch:
And all the while it's nothing but the dreams of your own mind
Go back to sleep so nothing changes
Before you wake I think that you should know you're out of time
Or maybe it's just all the same here
-- go back to sleep so nothing changes --
v1.5:
Watching from the wings
Hearing flowers sing
Let the magic flow
Let the magic flow
Let the magic flow
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released January 17, 2022
