HELIX
I’ve got a million different things to say
If the words I made
Are what you’d hear
I’ve got a thousand different tales to tell
You know so well
You hold dear
And there’s a circle in the spire
Truth inside the liar
As he sees it
And there is fortune in the fate
As we stare at the gate
Of the Helix
There’s a myriad of worthless deeds
Barren seeds
On fallow ground
There’s a multitude of human needs
On which we feed
Lost and Found
There are lifetimes full of hours lost
You count the cost
As slow as moss
A quiet sound
There’s a window in the wall
Through which we see it all
Take it or leave it
And there is silence in the night
When you turn out the light
Of the Helix
LAY DOWN
You can wish and you can wonder
Where it all went wrong
Tear it all asunder
Put it in a song
Your fortunes they are broken
Your wishes turned to woes
Your heart was just a token
But that’s how it….. that’s how it goes
Lay down, lay down
And so we watched the sunrise
From a field of morning dew
The light it played in your eyes
The strangest hue
Melancholy moments
On our trip towards the sea
The future watching closely over you and me
Lay down, lay down
DO IT OVER
I wish that I could be there when they’re calling out my name
I know that if I leave here I will never be the same
I wish that I could see her and tell her one last time
The things that we both hold dear drive me out my mind
Terra cotta statues join the human race
I feel that I don’t know you, I feel so out of place
I think I’m losing touch now with the reason I am here
Maybe it’s bad luck now to claim the big idea
And do it over again
Do it over
Dizzy spells adjusted for the drugs I cannot take
I don’t have the mustard, I’m fragile, I might break
Caught in cosmic limbo with a stranger at my door
Platitudes are shallow clamouring for more
To do it over again
Do it over
BAROGRAPH
I just wouldn’t make it
I just couldn’t do it if I tried
I just could not be him
If I said I could then it’s a lie
Suggestion of convention
Slips me out my skin and makes me laugh
I can’t take the pressure
You can take the measure with this barograph
If you can see the future
Why don’t you program this computer here for me
How come you’re so special
Call out every little thing you see
Eat it, call it ownership
Defines every single thought you have
I can’t take the pressure
You can take the measure with this barograph
ANCESTOR DANCE
Charcoal in a pit by you
Remnants of the morning
Sacrific’d the soul we did too
For our fickle yearnings
Born on gilded wings as in a trance
And you cry
Now I watch my ancestors dance
As I fly
Fire into the sky this night
Sparks into the ether
Firmament it sucks the light
Like some wicked creature
Constellations wheel now ever slow
Are you there?
The errant star that slides from pole to pole
And you stare
Born on gilded wings as in a trance
This thing
Now I watch my ancestors dance
And I sing
MASTER STRANGE
Sometimes I feel
You’re so unreal to me
Awake in the night
Burning so bright I see
A red star burning far away
A vision that I grasp and cast away
I hear a voice it says
These are the days
Master Strange
Out on the tiles
Counting the miles I go
Enter the verse
The truth is the first to show
And so this long day’s journey into night
Burning down I’m turning out the light
The phonograph it plays
These are the days
Master Strange
I NEVER WOULD HAVE BROUGHT YOU FLOWERS
I’m reading Palahniuk
And feeling oh so clever
Sometimes I don’t know what he is trying to say
I never would have brought you flowers
If I’d known that you would feel this way
Passing by the miles
Never ending
The pictures on the billboards turn to faded blue
I never would have brought you flowers
If I’d known that you were leaving too
The willows and the rushes
How they whistle
The flute song that I thought I heard the piper play
I never would have dreamed the dream
If I had known that I would wake today
I’ll be waving from the train
That leaves tomorrow
I don’t believe I ever had a chance to say
I never would have brought you flowers
If I’d known that you would feel this way
CHEMICAL EYES
Between the juggernauts and bankers
The clowns who play their parts
They’re merely actors in this photoplay of life
Philosophers and reapers
Of the benefits we give
They are the keepers of our days and of our time
‘Cos we are one
In our decision
We’re apt to take these wings and learn to fly
It’s come undone
Your religion
Chemical Eyes
Take away the riches
Stake and burn like witches
Any dissident who dares to call you out
Sweeping appropriations
From the church that is all nations
From your ivory towers I hear the “learned” shout
“Apocalypse!”
It is on your lips
The inconvenient truth it sits outside
It’s come undone
Your religion
Chemical Eyes
LIAR
You were yourself
But you were someone else
You were the voice
But you were just white noise
You were the light
The morning washed into my eyes
The fire
Liar
I like to dance in my wheelchair
I love you most when you’re not there
I show it off just to keep from prying eyes
I like to paint but I’m colorblind
I would not wait if I had the time
Show it all but it’s always in disguise
You were today
But that was yesterday
You were romance
You were the naked dance
You were the view
The path that takes me way down to
The wire
Liar
Now it’s good bye, we’ll say hello sometime
A keeper of fate
Knock, knock, knock, knocking at the western gate
A tenant of space
Soprano in the rat race schoolboy choir
WORD
Heading down
Time is wasting
The ship of fools
Kills intellectuality
With golden rules
Paradigms
Ask me no questions
I’ll tell you no lies
Snows of untethered wilderness
Blinds your eyes
It’s so hard to do due diligence
Try to make it all make sense
It must be so
‘Cos Google says it is so
The reality though, is that it bites
When ignorance wins and turns out the lights
And leaves your vehicle stranded
On a by-road
And we call it good?
Word.
Formaldehyde
Genius is
A rabbit’s foot
I don’t care
That now you look away
And left me here
To stay
Now I’m feeling the vibrations
Spatial sensations
Of heady aspirations
Compelled emancipation
Is it too late for us to play?
Seek and hide
Formaldehyde
It just keeps on going
Like a river it is flowing
To the sea and never knowing
Atrophy
Or is it growing?
Does it show you where to hide?
Formaldehyde
In steady steps we fall from grace
As we trip the light fantastic race
Never seemed so out of place
If I could only save some face
Maybe leave something behind
Leave something behind
Formaldehyde