Instilled in all mankind
It swells and opens up our eyes
You know
Bombard defensive walls
Pick up the phone and make a call
You’ll see
It’s not an ending
We’re on the brink, of a brand new god
Study the pages recite them to me
Unimpressive if you can’t break free from words
That hurt me
Nonchalant and calculating
When we push too much our wisdom’s fading away
From love
From love
Away from love
Love
Away from a brand new god
Benefits and consequence remain
The looming shroud that covers you in shame
Apparently we love to play mirage
Apparently we’ve got a lot to learn
I,
Long to be,
Your ocean breeze,
Your shady tree.
The past,
Eclectic casts,
Alive in dreams,
Projected on screen.
Your eyes,
So focused green,
Or were they blue,
Please excuse me.
The next,
Time we meet,
I’ll listen deep,
My shiny white beam.
Freeze on the playground you called
With command like a general’s son
They do the job cause the bodies freeze
And the streetlight’s fade bore the time to flee
Making you glisten is all I’ll ever do
Through the door
All those times you passed me by
Reconnect and amaze me
It’s just that I didn’t see what’s next
Confusion made me leap through nets
Like a fish in the sea
Or a circus flea
When you look at me
I’m crazy.
It’s not about breaking down
If you last through
Confrontation wears you down
And surrounds you
When you least expect a sign
To dismiss it’s such a crime
Pretty soon you’ll leave when autumn leaves
And set upon an unknown trajectory
Cause what you don’t know
Is you left me praying that you’d come back to me
Kinda like the breeze when it blew you into me
Kinda like the sea when it washed against my knees
And it swept you back
With the tide as sunbeams blast
And your mind still intact
Driving in a foreign car
Got a sunroof
To laugh at all the passing cars
That surround you
When you least expect a sign
To dismiss it’s such a crime, a crime
Pretty soon you’ll leave when autumn leaves
And set upon an unknown trajectory
Cause what you don’t know
Is you left already it’s just another trip
I’m back from San Diego
The sun resolves in flight
There’s so much I must tell you
There’s so much I must say
Today, I’m here, today
You waited patiently
From San Juan Capistrano
I needed you to see
You knew I would not stay
Away, I’m here, away
Now we’re on Sunset Cliffs
When I recall the time
Please take this silver ring
Please take my word for it
You’re safe, I swear, you’re safe
And I walked today, and the sun pounds
Break you down build your mind
Don't forget to write of all the better times
Sand that lies on Mountainside
Scotch Plains dipped in moonlight across New Providence
Commerce Way to Colony
Eight steps away from riding up the Diamond Hill
Our tears will burn a hole straight through
October song and the kids will be made right again
They can't remember when
Pass the time in blue plastic chairs
The cold white floor could not breathe out the autumn air
The sliding wheels, the concrete garden glows over
The old Atlantic Ocean
Pave the roads the wine is gone
Thursday opens up a book of other songs
The moon is down the sun won't shine
So motivate beneath, around, and inside
They can’t remember when
There’s a woman by the water
And she turned and said to me
In the south a palm tree’s growin’
In the north the winter sleet
The world will sleep
When the sun recedes
If you’re goin’ down the highway
And you’re searching for some peace
You may find yourself eroding
You may find your sanity
But I can’t see
The woman said to me
Just ahead around the corner
Is a shop that sells a dream
That your life began this morning
Another chance to believe
There’s more than me
The woman said to me
Past the noise and bustling sidewalks
Beyond the realm of misery
Is a woman by the water
Offering ability
To see through me
The woman said to me
There’s no need to argue baby
We’ll relax in the sea
There the waves will wash the pain away
I will follow and you will lead
Through endless doors
There’s a woman by the water
And she turned and said to me
In the south a palm tree’s growin’
In the north the winter sleet
The world will sleep
When the sun recedes
Armed with the knowledge we still run back
Us versus them seems like we’re running back
The third chimpanzee
The first human being
Don’t know how they’re created
But they keep on misbehaving
Blue sphere we clench our teeth to avoid collapse
Balancing on the beam placed upon our backs
The corporate empty scene
Utopian fallacies
The dream of graduation
From cycles of deception
I rely on you
The towel’s still in our hands, the ears are still interested
I rely on you. I rely on you
It’s on you, don’t you see
It’s on you, we can’t breathe
The third chimpanzee
The first human being
Don’t know how they’re created
But they keep on misbehaving
Before the time you grew into a man with all the thoughts a man should have
There was tough love. Yeah, there was tough love
Year by year embedded fear dug up to reveal that he’s among us
Cassian, Mr. Newton
How could God exalt him to the pew?
Cause God was hijacked by crazed views.
You don’t lock me up
You don’t demonize
You don’t seal the truth for a big payoff
You don’t lock me up
Cause I’ll leap from cars
And I’ll chase the stars, until you’re all used up
If actions speak louder than words then why are so many dead among us?
And he’s still here, on the board. Dr. Fear.
In our lives we’ll do what’s right
A child should be asked to make it right
The enemy propaganda machine
Of cults and governmental squeaky cleans
I’m the flow behind the scenes
Fit between your tongue and cheek
Carelessly the curtain rose, and overflowed
Exposing everything I care to know
You’re the core beneath the sea
Magnetized I cannot breach, you refuse to break
With flailing limbs and open eyes, through sky I dive
I’ll give it one last try
When she read you the fortune, the prophecy imbued
My feet that scaled the ocean like the tide that soaked the sun
A pittance for something sweet, a penny in your cup
You never really noticed, how lucky we all are, always
Rewind, mistakes, I wanted to make
She finds, all that, I’m willing to stake
Carry me, carry me, with no legs
A feather, is all, my life really weighs
So go gently
All I need to be is all I see
Roof to roof the feeling follows me
About to burst the heads of higher beings
Lost and found the sunlight pours through breeze
At a loss for words, bring me sun
Holding doves and pearls, clutching sun
Candle burns the core, illumination
Territoriality reality
To protect the ones that glow for me
Fighting with my inside enemy
Understand that’s how I’ll always be
Hey, your image silhouetted down
Trickled by an earshot and traveled way downtown
Hey, blink and then you miss it all
A submarine was flying, a ballerina fell
Oh what’s it coming to?
Oh where you running to
In the end
Hey, your signal came all scrambled through
Transistor fading southward got muffled in the sound
Hey, better let your defenses down
You shudder to relieve them but you’re better off without
Sleep and watch you breathe
Sleep and watch you leave
Slip into your canyon
Hey, the boogieman met Santa Claus
And the fantasy’s all over and the child’s left a frown
Hey, better find your sweetheart
Battle for the species the young hunkers down
In the house you grew up in
The memories stack the shelves
Buried underneath the swing
Lies your favorite pet
Hold on, let go
Fascination turns to fact
And heroes turn to thieves
Friends you trust to hold the key
Unlocked your treasure chests
Hold on, let go. Speed up, slow down.
In the house you came to me and I fell thru the crack
Patiently you hung with me and eased my every attack
Hold on, let go.
Where did you run off to?
Maybe it was me I know it wasn’t easy
There were places you’d rather be
Ten years after pain is gone and teenage angst subsides
Every person that we meet potentially holds the prize
What’s that?
Shine thru
Response
Subdue
If you live long enough, then I will too
And birds fly high heading south.
Are you strong enough? Just rest assure
We’ll rest awhile before the starting blocks are dropped
Oh-oh, we’re blazing
Oh-oh, down the broken trail
Oh-oh, with broken backs and lofty dreams we’ll ride
Together
They’ll apprehend us, and ascertain our souls.
If we don’t watch for the vultures after dark
Are we poised to haul? The very essence?
It’s not untrue this mission’s right for you.
Oh-oh, we’re blazing
Oh-oh, down the broken trail
Oh-oh, with broken backs and lofty dreams we’ll ride
Together
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