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Balloons
you remember ... all the colorful, helium balloons when your cousin inhaled and like loony toons we all laughed away when you dropped your cake on the living room floor mama said, there's germs toss it out! you ate it anyway 'cause you were superman ... and superman can never die ************************ now all the bright lights flashing on the vital sign monitors helium filled balloons now pumping in your arteries time bomb ticks away all the doctors and the nurses dancing 'round the I.V. pole defibs and crash carts everything is in control for one more day 'cause you are superman ... and superman always flies away! **********
Blue Turned to Red
spring sprang fall fell ... another wasted summer staring down the wishing well tick tock such a lonely clock hanging from the wall trying not to fall as the sands of time run of rhyme they've filled his glass with turpentine! bang bang have you heard them yet? when his rainbow fell blue turned to red **********
Out of Reach
two fragrant lovely flowers they cause him such unrest happily laughing in their garden on the far side of the fence he tries and tries to reach them but he is simply overstretched such distant fragrant flowers yet he loves them both the best **********
Inevitable
i sit here as the darkness falls in sad simplicity a runaway clock ticks upon the wall but my heartbeat sets me free frequencies gone off in slight dissonance as sometimes life can be with diminished chords in an endless progression ... it awaits us all! it awaits us all! **********
Playlist
they found him simply lying there computer shuffling tunes quite the extensive play list ... his biography of happiness and ruin of youth and beyond beyond and before compressed and digitized! while all his pets wandered hungrily sensing something wrong may ghosts of love and ghosts of pain visit upon your soul again for a cynic's joy now finally found embracing life's very end **********
A Lunar Tune
i awoke in the night thought i heard something cryin' there was nothin' around there was no one beside me then a sad little fella with a wet tear still dryin' stared out from my pillow and sang me a song! oh boy you better change soon i'm tired of hearing your sad woeful tunes hey boy you better change course 'cause the place where you're headed people howl at the moon! i was sitting alone thought i heard something sighin' a calendar hung where the moonlight was shinin' then suddenly a breeze and the pages went flyin' from out of the darkness that familiar song! oh boy you better change soon i'm tired of hearing your sad woeful tunes poor boy a candle's been lit 'cause the place where you're headed the jackets don't fit! **********
Old Man
there's an old man deep inside of me just dying to get free there's an old man deep inside of me he just won't let me be and when i sleep he wakes me up ever spoiling all my dreams of childhood days and memories, lord please send him away from me! **********
Quark
i want to be free like a photon of light speed out 'cross the universe and catch all the sights but i'm trapped in confinement a quark in a cage up and down i'm quite charming top to bottom i'm strange my best friends are mesons and i love them a lot but i pine for the time when the universe was hot like a baryon, i shall carry on and wait for that day when the universe collapses and we're all one and the same **********
Stanley
oh, Stanley oh, Stanley how i miss my friend poor Stanley when mom and dad stepped out at night Stanley was the one who'd stop on by oh, Stanley oh, Stanley how i miss my friend poor Stanley we'd play board games and checkers too till he found out other things to do oh, Stanley oh, Stanley how i miss my friend poor Stanley when i saw them take him that day he turned his head then looked away oh, Stanley oh, Stanley how i miss my friend sad Stanley **********
Hold Me
hold me, hold me take me into your arms life has bought and sold me although it meant no harm sitting in the darkness one feels so all alone waiting for the sun to arise but the darkness just keeps growin' hold me, hold me take me into your heart love has sought and sold me although she meant no harm sitting in the darkness one feels so all alone waiting for the sun to arise a final taste of warmth hold me, hold me take me into your arms sadly no one told me that truth can cause such harm sitting in the darkness one feels so all alone waiting for the sun to arise but the sun ain't coming home **********
My Love
my love, my love dances around on her tiptoes my love, my love dances around on her tiptoes waiting for her friends to come out once again a smile upon her face she remembers back when ... my love, my love dances around on her tiptoes my love, my love dances around on her tiptoes swaying in the sun it is time once again a greeting from her lips then farewell to her friends my love, my love dances around on her tiptoes my love, my love patiently waits for the sun's glow **********
Late nite Dreams
i went for a walk it was after dark headed out west towards MacArthur Park i really didn't have very much to wear so i pranced about with my bottom bare then someone laughed (someone laughed, someone laughed) ha ha ha, ha ha i felt em-barassed so i started to run the boys were bouncing it wasn't much fun they swang to the left when i swang to the right saw a Dunkin' Donuts stopped in for a bite then someone laughed (someone laughed, someone laughed) ha ha ha, ha ha i grabbed my change then i hit the cement saw a bar down the street named the creme de menthe i stopped inside to have a look around all the patrons were staring not a woman was found then someone laughed (someone laughed, someone laughed) ha ha ha, ha ha i tailed it out and back on the street policemen stopped me got any id? i bent right over as to tie my shoe is this id good enough for you? then someone laughed (someone laughed, someone laughed) ha ha ha, ha ha but i ... ... was only dreaming ... so say goodnight! **********
Denial
do i even really care about you any more? do i even really care about you any more? you can shake me you can break me refuse a final sip drown me in salt water still i will not give a lick toss me round in vinegar and fatten my poor lips do i even really care about you any more? do i even really care about you any more? you can chide me you can grind me make me fodder for the mills berate me and disgrace me but i will not be stilled ... do i even really care about you any more? do i even really care about you any more? **********
Tragedy
tragedy, there's so much tragedy and when i look into your eyes ... there's only tragedy so very long ago back when the world was young when lawns had weeds and tv screens were black and white the world so right ... we'd laugh and play on summer's day (and if we cried it soon would fade) till sunset kissed the milky way to tuck us in ... soft soft pillow dreams tragedy, there's so much tragedy and when i look into your eyes ... there's only tragedy so very long ago in a world of make believe we drank our milk and brushed our teeth our smiles were built by honey bees ... we'd laugh and play on summer's day until the tears just would not fade while streetlamps stole the milky way oh such a sin … soft soft pillow screams tragedy, there's so much tragedy and when i look into your eyes ... there's only tragedy **********
Time Out
temporary beauty temporarily fun temporary duty temporarily gone backwards, forward square and round standing on our heads read the final chapter love i'm temporarily dead! **********
Stumblin'
stumblin', stumblin', stumblin' and i don't know where i'm headed ... because i'm stumblin' i think i'll take a freight train south and then i think i'll shut my mouth i'm stumblin' stumblin', stumblin', stumblin' and i don't know where i'm headed ... because i'm stumblin' and when the skies have turned to grey i always have to run away i'm stumblin' stumblin', stumblin', stumblin' and i don't know where i'm headed ... because i'm stumblin' some time's i wonder if i'm still alive lost it all for an eight by five ... **********
Gazing At The Moon
gazing at the moon and it's all because of you and the life we once shared together gazing at the moon and it's all because of you just like the dreams we once shared together as the sun comes up (sun goes up) as the sun goes down (sun goes down) while the earth it spins (earth it spins) when the moon comes 'round gazing at the moon and it's all because of you and the lies we once shared ... yes, the lies we once shared together! **********
Food Chain i tossed her into a laundry bag then headed for the river it made me think, as she began to sink what last she served for dinner ... " 'tis gluten free with no trans fats organically grown" then i hit her with the cat! i tossed her into a laundry bag then headed for the river the fish they circled, round and round such a scrumptious healthy dinner ... **********
Love, Cats and Pain the cats are lying in a lonely old room ... upon a vacant bed the cats are lying it's doom or gloom ... just waiting to be fed and as i change the litter box the litter becomes twice-fold ... generation upon generation yes, i guess i'm growing old ah,those women always leaving as i go into decline! i used to drink champagne a lot now it's 20/20 wine! and as i change the litter box the litter becomes fourfold exponential pain and suffering and the pain is on a roll |
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Corn
oh, so pristine my sweet Christine such a lovely young flowery lady ... although untouched yet not unblushing let me whisper sweet niblets in your ears **********
Tribulation
'tis a dark day for a tuesday if i must say so myself i cannot smell the baker's wares there's cobwebs on the shelf all freshness dates have since expired and the news is not the best but my faith keeps growing stronger as i hope we pass the test **********
The Shattering Stillness
venus rises slowly sadly above the sands where seagulls cry from sea spray salty tears of madness voices whisper inside his head sea turtles perform an endless journey ensuing world tragedy reflects from their eyes then suddenly the moment when it all comes crashing the shattering stillness of death in the night **********
Valentine
oh, my sweet valentine ... may i speak out quite absurdly? my sweetest valentine ... would you save me a creamy cherry? for i find myself alone again upon the streets of remember when a promise to my own sweet self it shall never happen again! ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ oh, my sweet valentine ... with hearts pressed against the wall my sweetest valentine ... as i hear the bodies fall gunned down again it never ends such a haunting haunting tale a promise to my own sweet self it shall never happen again! **********
Netherlands
looking down upon the darkness of his nether land world he once touched the sky found his hands had been burned dashed out both his eyes on a sliver of moon blood mixing with teardrops filled puddles of doom! oh, he's tasted the bitter wine and smelled the black rose as she approaches him gently he sits there alone ever longing for embracement to garner his soul planting death on his two lips she tiptoes back home! **********
One Lump or Two?
gathered 'round a warm fire as the weather turns cold hands stretched out with strangers and other lost souls don't need any gift cards fancy ties or a Wii just lend me a pillow where i can hide in a dream as the fire grows weaker there's a chill in my sole so i pray to dear Santa fill all our stockings with coal **********
Countdown
beans and boiled eggs with whiskey for supper another fine day another throw upper ... i pray to the heavens i pray to the trees i pray to myself oh, lord let me be staring out a window the curtains have fallen a crack in the glass the blackbirds are calling ... where grass one day lay only weeds taken hold the calendar's in reruns the world's grown so old beans and boiled eggs with whiskey for supper another fine day another throw upper ... old memories once hanging on living room walls now faded and dusty no memories at all with praise to the heavens! with praise to the trees! with praise to himself! oh, lord let him be! **********
Devoured
oh, amazon woman from your dark fertile jungle oh, please hunt me down pray i need your hot love then crack me wide open take in all my juices then toss me away like a coconut shell! **********
Sunspots
i awoke in the morning found the evening was gone just a pain in my head along with a song once again came up empty things always gone wrong those coronas and sunspots have flared up again those coronas and sunspots have flared up again! i awoke in an alley with an itch in my beard what day of the week? not exactly quite sure my lips were both bloodied my limbs were quite numb those coronas and sunspots have flared up again those coronas and sunspots have flared up again! i borrowed an old suit i found a new job clean shaven, spit shined no longer a slob went out for a lunch break then never came back those coronas and sunspots have flared up again those coronas and sunspots have flared up again! **********
Sleep Tight
sleep tight my love sleep tight for me till the flowers one day bloom again when the sunshine heats the breeze sleep tight my love sleep tight for me as we wait to share a June again my heart beats out this tune till then sleep tight my love sleep tight for me **********
Healthcare
such a good cat oh lord, excuse me please such a good cat so sorry 'bout the fleas that winter's day when i took you in no kitty-care plan just rum and gin such a good cat oh lord, excuse me please such a good cat i'm crying on my knees that winter's day when i took you in such an unfair way to pay for my sins **********
sandy is gone sandy has gone ... away! i didn't even get to kiss her how i miss my little sister poor sandy is gone sandy has gone ... away! as the world went flying by me she was the one who stood beside me poor sandy has gone dear sandy has gone ... away! conceived when tubes begat transistors who could know how much i'd miss her? now sandy has gone sandy has gone ... away! two, four, six, eight half past seven when angels came now gone forever ... **********
Dance On
perhaps it's time to weigh yourself to slay yourself to save yourself ... all that you need lay on the shelf don't betray yourself, again dance 'pon rippling waters dance 'neath twinkling stars dance on sons and daughters dance wherever you are perchance it's time to see yourself to be yourself to free yourself ... there is no need to beat yourself to defeat yourself, again dance 'pon rippling waters dance 'neath twinkling stars dance on sons and daughters dance wherever you are perhaps it's time to breathe your last to leave the cast to future past ... but do not fear nor shed a tear for the dance shall carry on! dance 'pon rippling waters dance 'neath twinkling stars dance on sons and daughters dance wherever you are **********
Wormy Rapture
starin' out the window the rain it slowly falls not a hint or drop of sunshine still i hear the robins call trapped inside this darkness is something i've never seen just an empty, lifeless carcass devoid of any dreams it's a worm bonanza ... such a worm bonanza ... it's a worm bonanza ... come watch the crawlies crawl! (come watch the crawlies crawl!) ***** starin' out the window the clouds now dissipate water rainbow, sunshine they've opened up the gates stuck inside these four walls like a pharaoh in his tomb waters soon to be departed exploding from the womb it's a worm bonanza ... such a worm bonanza ... it's a worm bonanza ... come watch the crawlies crawl! (come watch the crawlies crawl!) ***** staring out the window the grass so green and dry the only water falling is the water from my eyes although the robin's singing there's a raven in the trees and it gets my head to thinking does she caw for you or me? it's a worm bonanza ... such a worm bonanza ... to reach the final stanza ... come watch the crawlies crawl! ... **********
Touche
sorry for being such a bothersome fool but i love it so much when i bother you! whether after church or after school the bells keep ringing and it's oh so cool as i feel my heart fluttering ... (oh what joy you bring) as i hear my lips stuttering ... (understand what i mean?) sorry for being such a bothersome fool but i love it so much when i bother you! **********
Apple Red
apple red, apple red twas the color of her face when i told her, as i told her that i loved her! apple red, apple red something eating at the core i need a taste once more of young heartbeats but it's a long long way tween spring and cold december things shall never be the way we once recalled apple red, apple red twas the color of my face when i told her, as i told her that i loved her! **********
Recycled
Be Stllled My Potato
now I'm feeling aloof at about 80 proof I want to look at the sky but the sun is so bright! a dead bird in the grass a swollen snake up my ass but my elbow's still strong so I keep chugging along as I wonder ... what ever happened to the good old days! as I wonder ... how it all got lost in the haze! now I'm shedding a tear there's no solitude here getting lost in my thoughts as the curtains draw near and I wonder ... what ever happened to the good old days! be the child feed the child wear a smile 'cause nothing can last forever flowers in the breeze making us sneeze life's such a tease for nothing can last forever even the bluest of bluest skies will surely end one day our finest of thoughts and philosophies recycled in their graves be the child feed the child wear a smile 'cause nothing can last forever |
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Waltz
she waltzes towards the window in a sad three quarter time just waiting for her lover with a vodka and a lime both kids are off to grandma's and she's dressed up like a maid embarrassing the neighbors won't you please pull down the shades! red lips and lace a flushing face her hopes begin to sag above the knees still aimed to please she's halfway in the bag she waltzes towards the window but her lover's running late she's running out of vodka and she's running out of time **********
One Night
lay with me tonight lovely lilting young lady play with me tonight for my heart has grown cold like rock salt on ice thaw me out little lady turn me back into water then evaporate away! **********
Express Line
oh sweet little siren i know not your name you have knocked me off course and muddled my brain when you brushed up beside me it drove me insane! and i think that you knew it twas part of your game shorts hanging so low i could see north Brazil out shopping with mama you are my blue pill as you're bending, pretending to look for a snack you have made me an addict i am hooked on your crack messages on derrieres tattoos on tail bones are a bit of a burden for a man that's full grown wishing he were fishing in those old randy days he pays for his six pack and then shuffles away **********
Oscar
i wish i were a hot dog man so very long ago i wouldn’t care whatever brand hot dogs soothe the soul pushing a cart along the street want mustard with that son? poppy seeds stuck in your smile when all the world was young i wish i were a hot dog man so very long ago **********
Pall Mall
i was headed for god's heaven took a detour towards hell the book i once studied gathers dust on the shelf to hell with the prophets ... let me smoke my pall malls! and other things and faerie wings i did my thing i made the scene pretty lady in my arms i so love your sweet scent there's cinnamon in your eyes and your lips taste like mint when we woke up that morning we both heard church bells and other things and faerie wings and wedding rings oh where's my pall malls! **********
A Moment To Savor
the calm before a storm a moment to savor afloat in the warmth a moment to savor thrown into a world where we climb up a peak just to stumble and fall till it's all out of reach a moment to savor the dust and the mold a moment to savor bones crumble and fold with digital misfirings the neurons implode in the altogether again from what i've been told a moment to savor **********
Dilapidated
this morning i woke up and i felt ... dilapidated like a boise spud stuck in the mud i feel life's overrated gonna catch that train head home again turn round the bend i'll miss you friends this morning i woke up and i feel like ... baked potato! **********
Wings Long Since Torn
long dormant mountains of memories so old peek out from the cobwebs and closeted doors shoe boxes of sadness high heels with no home sweet butterfly in a music box her wings long since torn the dusty sad jewelry no wrist to surround nor earlobe nor pretty neck so tasty and warm an abandoned old teddy lies such a burden to bear rumpled up with old photographs and a lock of her hair bright scarves and warm coats such a waste all around they long to be useful as he stirs up the mound a crinkled brown paperback a Paddy's Day hat with memories of better days of her and the cats the long truck pulls up yet he must look away farewell boxed up memories as he holds tears at bay truck filled up and bearing gifts for those with no name while teddy holds the butterfly once again music plays **********
Cynical Scrooge
thanksgiving day icicles hang down from the eaves a sign what's in store for the next christmas eve? will it be rainy or snowy or globally warm? BAH! HUMBUG! 'cause it really doesn't matter santa long has passed away when i look into the starry skies i no longer hear his sleigh for the children happy laughing while you carolers sing His song hurry up and make it snappy boys! i can't AFFORD to wait too long DING DONG DING DONG! DING DONG DING DONG! **********
An Empty Room
startled! he has awoken now in an empty naked room dusty light comes shining down his worldview askew ancient crumbly tumbly walls in powder pasty blue brick and plaster, urine and mold cobwebs filled with doom stranger dressed in shades of brown questions posed, a runaround where am i? been twice score years look for yourself, the end is near peering out there was no sun just a purple haze, a world undone broken columns like jagged teeth painful remnants for all to see he turned around to run in fear twas no escape now all so clear the staircase blocked by demons’ hands! but his faith kept on ... struggling swimming slowly sinking free at last! free at last! **********
Peppermint Butterfly
there’s a darkness ever calling me and it calls me every day lord i need some overhauling please before they haul me to my grave *** long ago in days of innocence i could hear the children play now rum 'n gin replace the peppermints another dragon i must slay *** clouds of regret are hanging over me and they're getting mighty gray just like dangling swords of damocles i fear someday i'll have to pay *** there’s a darkness ever calling me and it calls me every day back to dreams and fields of butterflies place sweet poppies on my grave **********
Real Imposter
will the real imposter please stand up ... to tell us the truth is to tell us a lot been filling our heads with nothing but rot will the real imposter please stand up can the real imposter lend us a hand? with teeth pearly white and a smile so grand a fist up the arse and a head in the sand can the real imposter lend us a hand? all real imposters are barons of greed they ravage the fields and scatter their seeds corrupt us and rape us make us part of the scene like goose liver bloated till we burst at the seams! will the real imposter stand up and stop handing out dreams that best be forgot making us think we're something we're not will the real imposter please stand up will the real imposter please stand up ... to sell us the truth is to sell us the lot entangling our heads in a Gordian knot will the real imposter please stand up **********
Lost Or Found
what once was held in common slowly turned to disbelief the rosy skies within your eyes no longer can be seen it's such a shame ... oh! such a shame it's such a shame ... oh! such a shame but there's no one to blame it's only evolution it's such a shame ... oh! such a shame it's such a shame ... oh! such a shame but there's no one to blame it's only evolution where once we dwelled immaculate conceived in veiled disguise with forecasts, dreams inaccurate when thoughts were crucified it's such a shame ... oh! such a shame it's such a shame ... oh! such a shame but there's no one to blame it's only evolution it's such a shame ... oh! such a shame it's such a shame ... oh! such a shame but there's no one to blame it's only evolution walking upon hot desert sands there's a burning in my heart nature's scenes, and nature's schemes are the real works of art it's such a shame ... oh! such a shame it's such a shame ... oh! such a shame but there's no one to blame it's only evolution it's such a shame ... oh! such a shame it's such a shame ... oh! such a shame but there's no one to blame it's only evolution this love i feel so deep within that courses through my veins i ask myself once more again can someone please explain? it's such a shame ... oh! such a shame it's such a shame ... oh! such a shame but there's no one to blame it's only evolution it's such a shame ... oh! such a shame it's such a shame ... oh! such a shame but there's no one to blame it's only evolution **********
Don't Fret
this could be the end for me my old guitar's only got three strings as time unwinds, life changes tune then snap again, now there's only two don't fret my love (don't fret my love) don't fret my love ... i'm still in love with you this could be the end for me my old guitar's only got two strings a lonely a and a lonely g can't afford discord, just harmony don't fret my love (don't fret my love) don't fret my love ... i'm still in love with you this could be the end for me my old guitar's run dry it seems i'm tired of playing these one string leads take my advice get a keyboard please! don't fret my love (don't fret my love) you bet my love ... i'm still in love with you **********
Nature Queen
look at all the flowers ... gaze upon the trees i could dream for hours my lovely nature queen but if you've never known her we've no notes to compare so i cannot share my sorrow when she's no longer here life so very fragile as i watch it slowly crack shattering tomorrow there's no more looking back look at all the towers ... gaze down at the streets i could cry for hours my lovely nature queen ********** Torn yes, sometimes love can be so cruel as it tears you apart and leaves you a fool but in my dreams i never hesitate ... to try it again and then i awake am i fooling myself for the window has gone does love only remain in some silly old song? yes, sometimes love can be so cruel as it tears you apart and leaves you a fool |