I'll Take The Rain

The rain came downThe rain came downThe rain came down on me. The wind blew strongThe summer songFades to memory I knew you whenI loved you thenThe summer’s young and helpless. You laid me bareYou marked me thereThe promises we made. I used to thinkAs birds take wingThey sing through […]


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I've Been High

Have you seen?Have not will travelHave I missed the big reveal?Do my eyes,Do my eyes seem empty?I’ve forgotten how this feels. I’ve been highI’ve climbed so highThe light, sometimes it washes over me. Have you been?Have done will travelI fell down on me knees Was I wrong?I don’t know, don’t […]


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Imitation Of Life

Charades, pop skillWater hyacinth, named by a poetI’mitation of life.Like a koi in a frozen pond.Like a goldfish in a bowl.I don’t want to hear you cry. Thats sugarcane that tasted good.Thats cinnamon, thats Hollywood.C’mon, c’mon no one can see you try. You want the greatest thingThe greatest thing since […]


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Beat A Drum

The sun reflected inThe back of my eye.I knocked my head against the sky. The dragonflies are busy buzzing me.A seahorse as if we were in the sea. Half way from coalHalf way from diamond.My fall knocked a mean chip out of me.Gathering as far as I can reach.Perched up […]


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Summer Turns To High

Mercury is rising stillTurn the fan on high I won’t step on my own shadowNo-one wants to cry Someone put a pox on meI spit in their eyesSummer turns to high Lift my bed sheet keep in sandlesCircle search and there are candlesSummer’s here but night is raising hopes and […]


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Beachball

Tonight’s aliveThe beachball’s set to flyThose well tequilaed guysWho smile at strangers. A tes souhaitsA tes amours chériYou give a little squeezeAnd dance the rua-rua-rua-rumbaThis life is sweetYou’re dancing in the streetWho knows who you might meetWho to find. The little week ends hereThursday has an earThe coffee clash careerShe […]


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She Just Wants To Be

It’s not that she walked awayHer world got smallerAll the usual placesThe same destinationsOnly something’s changed. It’s not that she wasn’t rewardedWith pomegranate afternoonsAnd Mingus, Chet Baker and chessIt’s not stampede and fortuneOf prim affectationsShe’s off on a riot(?)And she knows nowIs greater than the wholeOf the pastIs greater and […]


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Chorus And The Ring

Hey there now young WillySwing alone, quote the scripturesKeep them guessing which bed you crawled fromJustify, just denyWas it fun?Your time has comeWhat have you done?What have you done? That’s when the insults start to stingYou can’t remember anythingThe chorus chimingEvery chorus the machine of godIs singin’. It’s the poison […]


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All The Way To Reno

HummingAll the way to renoDusted the non-believersAnd challenge the laws of chance Now sweeterYou’re so sugar sweetYou may as well have ‘kick me’Fastened on your sleeve You know what you areYou’re gonna be a star.You know what you areYou’re gonna be a star Wing is written on your feetYour achilles […]


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Saturn Return

Easy to poke yourself square in the eyeHarder to like yourself, harder to try These are espousesPostcards and neopreneRoses a dollar a stemEveryone sleeping or pulling the long haul andKeys/caves(?) in the cooler it’s three A.M.And saturn is beckoning no-oneIt’s offering up. Late shift convenience store, burn out the lightsTelescope […]


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Disappear

dragged my feet across a seatJumped out the passenger sideThe only thing worth looking forIs what you find inside But that had not yet appearedLost invisible here. Tel Aviv and AgadirTone deaf for almost Before I learned to seeThe vanishing point appeared. I looked for you everywhereI looked for you […]


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