Jessie

Jessie gave up his heart
and he won't take it back.
He left it tied down to the train track.

Jessie was a brave soul
but he lost himself at sea.
Now that's where he'll always be,
down in cold depths under sea.

an idea, a start

I threw some colors on my window
just to see what I would see.
and painted with my finger
a scenery of trees
and a man down on his knees
saying to God please give me answers,
I swear I want to know.

Then the light came in.

Iraqi Sunset

You say you'll give a prayer for me;
I don't even know your name.
I promise I'll go carefully
if you swear to do the same.

So many things I could have been
but this is what I am:
A soldier trained to fight and kill
even though I never will.

Keeping these bruises in my shoulders
helps me forget the songs I've sung.
And it's strange to see how I'm getting older
when my heart still believes
I'll always be young.

While working in the desert sun
it's you I'm thinking of.
I'm trying hard to figure out
what to do with all this love
I'm feeling.

When I get home I'll make you marry me.
Restart my life with my new family.

Watching the sand shift in the desert
makes me remember ancient dreams.
And it's strange to see how I'm getting older
when my heart still believes
I'll always be young.

I'll always be young...
I'll always be young...

Setting Out

I'm finally on my way,
taking it to the waves,
getting back my sea legs.
I'm setting out.
See how the sea
shines so bright in the morning
I'll never give up again
until I'm done

I'm so tired of being me
holding on to severed ties reminds me how I make myself so lonely.

Seasons

I'm fairly sure that you were born with fire in your blood,
judging by the way you never let up.
Though we see in a different shade, I admire what you've made
of your soul and how you want to change the world.

Girl, you're messing with my seasons
the way you give me a reason
to smile through
this especially cold winter
I have barely felt since
I first met you.

When I look into your eyes I see a better world
and something there I wish it would live for.
As I turn my life to leave I long to hear your voice
say to me so soft and so sweetly:

There's enough heaven here for us;
there's no need to wait it out.

snippets

It's strange to see that I'm getting older when
my heart still believes
I'll always be young



I watched the wolves stalk through the woods:
my woods,
my wolves,
my goddamn feral blood.

Smooth Arrow

Hey Mr. Man
standing in my window
calling out to your savior,
I don't believe
a word you said was ever true
but I still believe in you.

Hey there Kingly Soul
crying into the wind
trying so hard to be saved,
you're smooth as an arrow
with a head of sharpened stone.
At least you didn't die alone.

"Oh, my dear brother..."
Six shots won't bring him back.
Whoa whoa-oh whoa-oh-oh.
In your final breath you fell
from the window to the well
where blood flowed from your wounds.

Hey Mr. Man
standing in my window
calling out to your savior,
I don't believe
a word you said was ever true
but I still believe in you.

I still believe in you.

Mr. Freeze (??????)

Where do I go from here?
I can't live on the mountaintop
isolated in an icy shell
insulated in the snow.
Where do I go,
where do I go from here?

Roads run like capillaries
out of and into coagulant veins.

Blood from my heart stains
the white world I've tried to make.

Take me back to the wind!
It left me here alone.

In the church there is a window
that changes light
from white into a rainbow scenery.

I never finished this song, and I no longer think I will. I've stopped caring about it.

I'm fairly sure that you were born with fire in your blood, judging by the way you never let up. Though we see in a different shade, I admire what you've made of your soul and how you want to change the world.

Girl, you're messing with my seasons
the way you give me a reason
to smile through
this especially cold winter
I have barely felt since
I first met you.

There's enough
heaven here for us.
There's no need to wait it out.

Starshine

This is a forced lyric I wrote yesterday for a friend and his girl. It's entirely recycled. I'm not sure there's an original bone left in me.

D:I can watch you move through the dark
and know exactly who you are.

A:Take me in your arms
and learn my heart by feeling.

Take my hand and walk with me
past the hills and through the trees
to where we'll rest and wait to see
the morning come
in with the sun.
And when we're finally through the night
you'll see me in the morning light
and know that what we felt was right.
The morning comes
in with sun.

A:You should know everything will be just fine
by the way you make me glow like stars shine.

D:You know what I am:
A better man than them.

Chemical Agency

Something I started working on today. Just getting some ideas down mostly.


Go on take your pills
and then you will feel alright, alright alright.
You'll sleep half the day
and so calm through the night.
You know what you've got,
you've got your chemical agency.

If you're hopelessly tired
over anxious or wired.
Don't forget that you've got
your chemical agency.

When you're drunk off your ass
or toke up just to relax.
Don't you forget
you used your chemical agency.

When the voices are saying
you'd best be a-slaying.
When you've got your father's throat in your grip
and you just want to rip it out.
Don't you forget
you've got your chemical agency.

Just take your pills
and we'll all be alright, alright, alright
'cause you'll sleep half the day
and so calm through the night.
What is it you've got?
You've got your chemical agency.