Silent Dreams

Night slips away behind the moon, shadow of soft lights
I feel the warmth of your breath, against the quiet ights
We lay our sleepy heads on down, remembering how we were
Handing our hearts to one another, never really sure
Walking down darkened streets, we have one more night of shared
We are strangers talking, as if love, were always here
The gentleness of your skin, caresses morning chill
Empty no longer, how my beating heart has grown so very still
Silent Dreams
A Lullaby

I Heard it All Before

I have heard the saints go marching
I have felt the battle and hymn
I have smelled the fury blazing
I have walked to the quiet rhythm
I can taste the bright and glory
I have wanted all that's real
I have worked the royal assembly
I have seen it, I have seen it
I have seen it all before

I have seen the hallowed hunger
I have trusted hidden smiles
I have watched dead men running
I have helped the weak walk miles
I have burroughed untruths hiding
I have floated in windswept towns
I have blazed the passion trail
I have seen it I have seen it
I have seen it all before

I have seen it all before
I have seen it all before
With a worn out soul
I have seen it all before

I have failed all used compassion
I have lived in truth and lies
I have bared immortal praying
I have dazed the bye and bye
I have cleared the clouded vision
I have met alimighty God
I have seen it I have seen it
I have seen it all before

I saw ghosts of good intentions
And he was writing on the wall
I saw the land of peace and plenty
Running hard to take a fall
I had a vision of broken promise
And dreams no longer worn
I saw alight upon the waters
Turn to dust behind closed doors

Oh when the saints go marching in

Dancing in the rapture

How Will Lucy Survive

She saw you coming
in a bad dream
Master of clouds
lover of schemes
Mysterious lies
cover everything

Praying to God
on bended knees
Repeating the prayer
Please, let it be

How will Lucy survive
How will she ever survive?

Has a heart of her own
I stood where she stood
I know how it happens
I stood where she stood

She's been exposed
to masterful lies
Hand to hand combat
while surfing the skies
Weightlessness comes
lovers are lost
Losing her strength
at a great cost

I know where she's been
I've lived it before
Can't take the pain
I've lived it before

How will Lucy survive
How will she ever survive?

Freedom

Freedom for you and me
Freedom for you and me
Freedom Nation

Seeking a better life
Dreams of man and wife
Raising a family
Carving out history
Freedom is sacrificed
Whispered dreams in the night
Planning, planning
Waiting for destiny

Oppression, Poverty, Spawning
Revolution
Written, Bloody, History
Constitution
Birthing, Freedom, Coming
Resurrection
People, Succeeding, Government
Needs are meeting
Recognized, Advancing, Dreaming
Growth Progressing
Thinking, Having, Ideas
Dreams fulfilling
People, Knowing, Reaping
What they're sowing

Country, Suffers, Crippling
Riches of soul
Never, Tapping, Sacrifice
New devices
Campaigning, Progressing, Beginning
It's a new day
Length of Breadth of, Height of
the new land
People, Reaching, Firmly
Tall and standing
Fruit of, Creating, Growing
A new homeland
Reaching, Living, Dreaming
A Growing Nation

A New Couch

In came the new couch
Moved the old one out of the way
The new couch patterns of flowers
The old brown couch memories of cats
The chrysanthemums turned bright in the light of the fireplace
While the brown became wet from the rain

DRINK

First drink
denial
to
the
underworld
of
the
freeway

crotch
of
the
universe

smelling
my
own
shit
and
others

i’m
just
fine
one
more
sip

off
the
ol
jug

If You're Walking Through Hell

Bottled up and a shade too pale
Where sleeping dogs are left to die
An urban vagabond gone stale
Such a long way around,
long way around

If you’re walking through hell,
Baby don’t stop
If you climbing the walls
don’t drop
If you're walking through hell, walking through hell
If you're walking through hell don't stop

The devil sings
Hard to breathe
Smoke above
Fire below

Ain’t no shortcut, rearrangin’ the mind
Voices blur like walls in a tunnel
The hard part is the part, that takes hard time
Such a long way around, long way around

Jumping into the mouth of the dragon
Hearing the wet snap of a scream
Looking back, no rhyme or reason
Such a long way around, a long way around