Used to wonder
Why I met you
Upon this hour
Of my life
The final moments of
This decade
You wanting to fit
To be inward with your pack
Thus they accepted you
You accented to their liking
I backed away
Still you'd leave me footprints
To misunderstand
That would be fear
Not to have gotten it right
Then to have left it unknown
How I truly feel
But it seems a silly stupid factor
Because I don't know of you outside
Just on the moments
You have time to kill
Shoot the shit
Just breeze by
Flirtation sits
I wish I'd never met you
But I also wish you success
Maybe my fear
Be your regret.
C

You didn't break me
But you freed me from
Attachment
I gave you my truth
Signed and let me down easy
I never again felt it beat anymore
Exchanged my heart with the tin man
Ripped the trust from my lungs
One two three four
Each was thought to be
Love
Lust
Extinction of the senses
I think I was 17
Followed by 25
26 and later at 28
Made my bed
For it'll remain just myself
I
And the keys
Tin man can keep my heart
The cowardly lion
Was the last to back away
He didn't rip it out like the rest
Just let it fly over his head
The tin man kissed the healer
Took his axe and shook my hand
And we all disappeared
From the story
It has no end
Just plots

Gave the tin man my heart (so he could feel love)

I talked with you
When we were young
Your strength was magnetic
Persona of a warrior
Mixed with a court jester
You were beautiful
And I was just a boy
Some things never change
But you are still
More worthy than I.

1997

You will taste fever
Words only keep you warm
Wrapped inside a mask
Longevity is not my mark
Ink is my eyes and skin
Tilt the head
Lead you inside
To show you what I was thinking
For I am odd
The outsider
I have frightened you
Foreshadow how I
Screw myself over
The wrong handshake
Nobody truly knows you
Until you renounce god
And proclaim yourself
The king of the misfits

An island of freedom

blue eyed and green cuts of glass = iris

surface noise echos louder than before
leave your tracks under the water
swim with me inside this sea of red
hide beneath each blue eye of benefit
don't trade doubt before you dive
just remain in the middle of this parade
you watched me sleep at all hours of the day
the dreams are not rehearsed
take a page and run with me
made of ink and a midnight alarm caressing my head
warm as the hour
whatever you make before we're burning red
longevity
inside this sea of names
(1)


you're named the king but they elect me
As your protector enough to electrify
everything you feel in your lips and veins
i wear your crown as if to throw off any headless nightmare
protector of your generous night and we ride earlier than tonight
don't fall into me just climb your trees without pain
stand erect but don't forget about the armor you entrusted to me
and we're locked inward of a gaze before the minvera sunrise earths our blood
the eyes are close to reveal the sensitivity of each passing hour

(2) knight

they shot me in a dream that remains
right throw the arrow inside my heart
with broken shards that cut me in two
I feel no pain just disconnected from
the truth locked up inside your soil
my fangs have been released
now it hurts to recoil
mouth wishes he hadn't taken the hand
broke it all to let you get the better of me
and then it hurts to displace the memory
feel hollow without your reign
just a tooth of misfits
(3)


Don't want it to cover me here
release it before the pre dawn hits the earth
you'll forget about me as the prints fade
and the scars from inside your voice no longer tinge
with regret in attitude that I once read upon your face
you're moving away from here and that feeling remains
this realm is a wire that always cuts me right through your ever-present
over expressed but only out there above the sea
modern day... desire
(4)


Such a fighter i'm done up at four then twenty four
pounding against your walls of exiled expressed
to fit inside your wavelength of retired anger
such a shell of shame and I know how the force remains
stings me twice in the face and spit on me
tangled up inside your pain
carve the new found order of our identity
share it with the masses

(5) Rebirth


Pulled you from the tree
selfish intent without an honor
or dismay of your fingers and how they lay
you're outward persona that befits the day
just open your hands to relearn
don't run away when I breathe your style
just silently write from the veins
in twenty four hours give us a smile
i'll give you my hand
now blow us away from here
(6) water




you want a movie with me in it
twenty men all on an island
singing the fire inside us all
left undisturbed but written on the face
something to recall
when ten thousand days
have climaxed
into this painting
before we set sail
cover the masses
reshape the lenses
clear your fragmented mind
now you can remember everything
once thought gone from your mind.
(7) doesn't hurt

took you in
when you doubted me
and I looked inside you
threw your claims
no pathway
staking the man that remains
you blew me away
now it all flies over our heads
give it a grin
tossed in slow but remarkable verse
there's nothing I could teach you
that you won't already learn when we both burn it from memory
(8) heat


to breathe for me
when i'm gone
bleed before me from now on
just drive further
faster in stride
clean the moments
no regrets
all was said in one frame of mind
you'll drive faster
like you earned
your place
within the body
drop to your knees
now just breathe
as i feel my knees drop too
shoulders drive the force
just bleed to breathe with me from now on
dream before twice before we're gone
dream with the lights on and relax

(9) 9,000 miles = 18,000 miles


pictured you with a guitar strapped against
and your blades of shoulders and fingers remain
invaded but not over a terrain of soaked in scars
where liars and pinned back faces remodel our hearts
to walk across this cold choked earth and show me your name
take it with us again until the snow tastes of our protection
a new slate to clean me from these weapons
of chains that are falling
in all cut directions secured on the borders
to be where there's life
leave
run away with me in the night
don't cough just talk in secret alphabets with me

(10) The man = new hands = wiped clean (do you understand)