BREAKFAST AT DEATH

Think Can’t you hear

Understand your mind is drowning in fear

Listen to your god

Crumbling like broken glass upon your facade

Look beyond out there

Running through the streets crying in despair

All this and more

Echoes through your mind forevermore

Too easy to laugh off the hate

No words save your breath

Enjoy Breakfast at Death

Think about your path

That leads you to stand before your master’s wrath

Live where you dwell

I’m sure they’re making room for you in Hell

Walk through the door

Your steps have put you ringside at the start of a war

Live head in the sand

You haven’t got a care for woman or man

Too easy to laugh off the hate

No words save your breath

Enjoy Breakfast at Death

Gather all your tears

Not enough to wash away all of your fears

Time at your side

I know when you were born but not when you died

Too easy to laugh off the hate

No words save your breath

Enjoy Breakfast at Death

KID FROM YESTERDAY

Never knew there was price to pay

For being a kid from yesterday

Each corner holds a new surprise

Staring at me with snake-eyes

What if I never wake again

Are there lessons to be learned

Was it worth the work I did

Or should it all be returned

So much in front of me

It’s hard to sort it out

I believe I need each piece

But there’s more than I can count

Maybe I just don’t want to be found out

Runnin’ away from all the things that weigh me down

Runnin’ ahead of time, I’m not just running around

Runnin’ the notes and hoping they become a song

Runnin’ my way and nothing is really wrong

One to stand on every yesterday

Reflecting all the things I had to say

Different ways to know what’s right for me

Transforming into what can really be

What if I never wake again

Were the lessons really learned

Was it worth the work I did

Or should it be returnedSo much in front of me

It’s hard to sort it out

I believe I need each piece

But there’s more than I can count

Maybe I just don’t want to be found out

Runnin’ away from all the things that weigh me down

Runnin’ ahead of time, I’m not just running around

Runnin’ the notes and hoping they become a song

Runnin’ my way and nothing is really wrong

If I knew that you’d be listening

I never would’ve changed my heart

Do hands run through and come out smooth

Or do they fall apart

What if I never wake again

Will I still have the time to play

To make a change or just remain

A Kid from yesterday

Maybe I just don’t want to be found out

Runnin’ away from all the things that weigh me down

Runnin’ ahead of time, I’m not just running around

Runnin’ the notes and hoping they become a song

Runnin’ my way I’m just a kid from yesterday

Runnin’ away from all the things that weigh me down

Runnin’ ahead of time, I’m not just running around

Runnin’ the notes and hoping they become a song

Runnin’ my way I’m just a kid from yesterday

PAPER MOON

Paper moon don’t you sail away

Erase the doubt, change my night to day

Lost in what I cannot tell

Shine your light and break the spell

Cause I’ll be waiting when you rise

Reach out take my hand

And pull me up to where I want to stand

Paper moon will you rise today

A path unseen yet I have found my way

Raise the tides wash the night away

Cast my shape like the potter’s clay

Cause I’ll be waiting when you rise

Reach out take my hand

And pull me up to where I want to stand

In shifting sand I lose my way

Moving forward only half of me here

The truth of reason echoes deep within

Calls me out to where I’ve always been

Paper moon fading growing dim

No longer real just a phantom limb

Somewhere as yet to be defined

Yet gives to me a peace of mind

Cause I’ll be waiting when you rise

Reach out take my hand

And pull me up to where I need to stand

IN MY SOUL

Crossing time

See my future in your wake

Nothing rhymes

Yet, there’s a fortune to take

It’s in the eyes That look within

An open door That calls me in

It’s in my mind It’s in my soul

Unknown the path

Of all that wants to be

If I don’t move

All you see is the fool in me

It’s in the eyes That look within

An open door That calls me in

Chase the light

Through open skies

A passing dream that looks within

To know the path intensifies

Beyond what might not have been

Times when I chose not to listen

Yet, the echo of your voice was there

A sound beyond remembering

Calls my future unaware

Chase the stars

Down from the sky

It’s in the eyes That look within

An open door That calls me in

It’s in my mind It’s in my soul

Lost in amazement

As the ocean meets the sky

Caught in a daydream

Where the past is magnified

It’s in the eyes That look within

An open door That calls me in

It’s in the eyes To look within

Open the door And pass within

It’s in my mind It’s in my soul

SAME OLD SERPENT

Distracted by anger.

Completely absorbed

With proving his worth

In an un-winnable war

Insecurity and doubt,

The fear he’ll fall flat.

Unplanned he becomes

The white Persian cat.

Constant struggle staring back through the clouds.

Controlling tool of fire laughing out loud.

The false prophet feeds on those who can’t (won’t) see.

And leads his children into slavery.

Turn in whatever way you will stand.

Mouth of a despot spews chains on the land.

Misguided reason nails a gate to the sky.

Same old serpent, same old lie.

Vaguely amusing,

Childish and random,

His thoughts issue forth

In reckless abandon.

Like a cesspool of filth

In a white-washed tomb

A procession of villains

Toward ultimate doom

Constant struggle staring back through the clouds

Controlling tool of fire laughing out loud

The false prophet feeds on those who can’t (won’t) see

And leads his children into slavery

Turn in whatever way you will (stand)Mouth of a despot spews chains on the land

Misguided reason nails a gate to the sky

Same old serpent, same old lie

I FEEL THE

I, I feel the weight on my shoulders

You, you are the one who put it there

I, I feel that no one even listens

You, you took away the ears that hear

What should I do

What should I think?

When blind decision created this and pushed us to the brink

How should I act

What words should I say

To counteract the pressure I feel day after day

Is there a reason

Is there anything at all

The impact is felt on the great and the small

I feel the emptiness of meaning

You broke the meaning of a voice

I feel the loss of emotion

You took away the hope of choice

Does it really matter

That everything’s the same

Does it remove the heart and soul, and emptiness remains

What can we do

How should we hear

When we’re duped with lies no matter how much we persevere

Is there any future

In making songs to sing

When greed and power sing the song and color everything

DREAMING OF FLYING

We waited so long We spend our whole lives

Lined up and waiting When that day arrives

With all that we have And all that has been

To be in this place Sailing into the wind

An unseen presence That we never knew

Hoping for something So life will continue

A spiritual breakthrough Like forms moving slowly

Hopeful indifference Will hold us completely

My heart has been a constant source

Of light and hope through all these years

What once was here is here no more

Time is a thief, yet so sincere

It seemed like so long ago

Yet, in an instant, here I am sighing

Fall apart it’s time to keep

Watching, waiting, dreaming of flying

Chasing our memories The light shifts again

Can’t give up hope But don’t live in pretend.

Is this reflecting Or something else

Thoughts change so quickly As do all farewells

My heart has been a constant source

Of light and hope through all these years

What once was here is here no more

Time is a thief, yet so sincere

It seemed like so long ago

Yet, in an instant, here I am sighing

Fall apart it’s time to keep

Watching, waiting, dreaming of flying

WHAT ONCE WAS LOST

In a world full of wonders

The stars aligned our paths to cross

And we embraced the chance

Turning the page

And we rewrite what once was lost

A season of recognition

Forgotten dreams comes rushing back

Open to the world

The world rushes in

And we rewrite what once was lost

In this place I want to live forever

Its walls are held up by your love

Years pass, you hold me near

Revealing what dreams are made of

And now that time is our companion

In dreams and paths that we have crossed

And as we turn the page

This is the place I want to live what once was lost

SHADOW OF YOUR DEEDS

I am descended from Ananias

I want and I’ll take, I am no white dove

Let him feed the four, the five thousand

They’re losers and failures, I have no love

To reject the words you say that you follow

And withhold from others while they cry aloud

Proves that your faith is empty and hollow.

Judged and condemned, for this you are proud

You had a choice and you threw it away.

Don’t cry for help when it comes time to pay.

The flowers in your garden grew but so did the weeds

You’ll never outrun the shadow of your deeds

A false god has come and seduced you with lies.

Ignoring the words that you say you adore

Rising like smoke are your anguished cries.

And empty your faith on a stone cold floor.

You had a choice and you threw it away.

Don’t cry for help when it comes time to pay.

The flowers in your garden grew but so did the weeds

You’ll never outrun the shadow of your deeds

Stumble on power of silhouette and glowing ash.

The worth of your thoughts is gone in a flash.

So knit together were the hearts of all

Yet pride goes before the greedy who fall.

You had a choice and you threw it away.

Don’t cry for help when it comes time to pay.

The flowers in your garden grew but so did the weeds

You’ll never outrun the shadow of your deeds