Around The Bend

I’m wishing you a-well Mind at peace within your cellCovers up, I cast you off I’ll be watching as you breatheI lie still, you move I send you off around the bend I hold your head deep in my armsMy fingertips they close your eyesOff you dream, my little childThere’s […]


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Present Tense

Do you see the way that tree bends? Does it inspire?Leaning out to catch the sun’s raysA lesson to be appliedAre you getting something out of this all-encompassing trip? You can spend your time alone, redigesting past regrets, ohOr you can come to terms and realizeYou’re the only one who […]


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Sometimes

Large fingers pushing paintYou’re God and you’ve got big handsColors blend… the challenges you give manSeek my part… devote myselfMy small self… like a book amongst the many on a shelfSometimes I know, sometimes I riseSometimes I fall, sometimes I don’tSometimes I cringe, sometimes I liveSometimes I walk, sometimes I […]


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Lukin

Drive down the street can’t find my keys to my own fucking home.I take a walk so I can curse my ass for being dumb.I make a right after the arches, stinking grease and bone.Stop at the supermarket, people stare like I’m a dog. I’m goin’ to Lukin’s…I got a […]


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Red Mosquito

Watched from the window, with a red mosquitoI was not allowed to leave the roomI saw the sun go down, and now it’s coming upSomewhere in the time between I was bitten, must have been the devilHe was just paying me…A little visit, reminding me of his presenceLetting me know, […]


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Smile

Don’t it make you smile?Don’t it make you smile?When the sun don’t shine? (shine at all)Don’t it make you smile? Don’t it make you smile?Don’t it make me smile?When the sun don’t shine, it don’t shine at allDon’t it make me smile? I miss you already… I miss you alwaysI […]


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Mankind

You’ll be Going out with radio Going out with discoGoing out like rock and roll I’ll be Going out with telephoneGoing out aloneTo the radar zone It’s all just inadvertant imitation And I don’t mean mineIt’s all across this nation If it’s just inadvertant simulation A pattern in all mankindWhat’s […]


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I’m Open

A man lies in his bed in a room with no doorHe waits hoping for a presence, something, anything to enterAfter spending half his life searching, he still felt as blankAs the ceiling at which he’s staringHe’s alive, but feels absolutely nothing So, is he? When he was six he […]


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Off He Goes

1, 2, 1, 2…Know a man, his face seems pulled and tenseLike he’s riding on a motorbike in the strongest windsSo I approach with tactSuggest that he should relaxBut he’s always moving much too fast Said he’ll see me on the flipsideOn this trip he’s taken for a rideHe’s been […]


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Hail, Hail

Oh, is there room for both of us?Both of us apart?Are we bound out of obligation?Is that all we’ve got? I get the words, and then I get to thinkin’I don’t wanna think, I wanna feelAnd how do I feel?And how do I… If you’re the only one, will I […]


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Habit

See it happen to a couple of friendsSee it happen and the message it sendsTake it up for what’s an obvious faultJust to see what all the fuss is about And it’s not your way… not your wayAnd it’s not your way… not your way Another habit says it’s in […]


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In My Tree

Up here in my treeNewspapers matter not to meNo more crowbars to my headI’m trading stories with the leaves instead Wave to all my friendsThey don’t seem to notice meAll their eyes trained on the streetSidewalks, cigarettes and scenes Up here so high I start to shakeUp here so high […]


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