Black Lotus on Water-

Quiet strength inside of me
A perfect place surrounded by trees
Peaceful pond, moss on fallen trees
Light and shade, silent breeze

Black lotus on water

It finds me listening on my knees
Look inside myself with ease
Forget all my useless pleas
Peace holds all the keys

Black lotus on water

Quiet strength inside of trees 
A perfect place surrounded by breeze
Peaceful pond, moss on a fallen me
Light and shade, silent greens

Black lotus on water

That’s all I really had to say
Don’t wanna get in the way
She’s like a piece of the sun, a ray
Shining on a lotus on water

Quiet strength inside of me
A perfect place surrounded by trees
Peaceful pond, moss on fallen trees
Light and shade, silent breeze

Black lotus on water
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Plural-

A fist clutched with authority
On the people's minds beat mercilessly

History is whatever they write
Written by whoever wins the fight

In a winter cabin
I watch the fire
While I’m still cold
Its beauty I admire

Let’s wage war against those we fear
Our side is always right
When the view gets all too clear
Against this cancer we must fight

Just make it happen
Cover (Our)
Threaten (Their)
Kill (Them)

Its time to beat up the camera man
And take pictures of him instead
Good morning all you latecomers 
Is it good to be out of bed?
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I am the Wind-

A path of roses on smoke
Leads to you, where I choke

Jump off the ship before it reaches the shore
This time I made it barely

What’s a load?
Asking why it’s about
Forget the world
Minds dead with doubt

Tip your hat to the steaming pavement
Sing a song to the concrete blocks
Pull me out of the landfill
I’ve found the keys but to none of these locks

Truth like a king in a house of cards

I’m broken. Leave me alone.
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Drunk by Mid-Afternoon-

Mass produced in a dark empty room
In this place where thoughts are booms

Vines that climb towards nothing
A piece of your soul
A piece of the whole
At what toll

A drop on the hole

Locked away from all of you
Don’t be surprised when you can’t get through

Melt me down and build me up
I’m the booze in a paper cup

When all I really feel is love

My face is buried in the mud 
I’ve given up; I’m swimming in scud

When all I really wanted was love

Planted in the fertile soil
You tore my stem but left my roots

I miss the comfort of dreams
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On a Cold Winter Night-

Didn’t get anything done
I stayed up late again tonight
I’m tired enough to fall
This isn’t a winning fight

Not on this cold winter night

I told myself not to do this
Searching for an answer
To questions unasked
I can’t get through this simple task

Not on this cold winter night

Nothing to get through
Only to be
Human ambition
Is but a dream

Come in through a vine covered arch
Find yourself on a path in the woods
Takes me to my innermost pond
A sunbeam shines through the fog

Shines on this cold heart in winter

Silence like the park inside a city
Blossoms on the water
And the reflections within me
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I am the Wind pt. 2-

Once I was alone
Once I’d seen the light
A shimmer on the other side of the sea
A shiver deep inside me

I am the Wind
I’m here then I’m not
Always on the move
I’m cold and then I’m hot

I’m free and soaring high
I’m climbing a mountain and freezing
I’m picking up dirt and moving it
I’m free but the world is turning

I am not the man inside of you
I am not your stable rock
I am not everything you wanted
I’m always behind a lock

I am the Wind
I’m here then I’m not
Always on the move
I’m cold and then I’m hot

I look to the West
See the smoking gun
I look inside me
See a setting sun
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Devil’s Night-

Coming up behind me
Running up behind me
Soon it’s on top of me
Now it’s in front, I’m fine

When you can’t strike a deal 
With something that isn’t real
Come and talk to me

Like a soapbox left out in the rain
Like a glacier running over sane
Like an idea crashing with a plane
Like an apology without the pain

I keep plugging quarters 
Into this machine
I find myself sleeping
Lifeless, in a ravine

When all you ever think about
Is the loneliness and pain
Saturday night rolls around 
And the devil plays her game

Something has died
And it can’t be seen
She calls to me
But only in dreams
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To Live-

Death comes to end us
In many forms-

A demon
An ideal
A friend
A fear
Love

Freedom

Who shall live and who shall die

To live
To believe
Together

All the great human soul 
And it had to be this

No more greed
Only you 

Happiness is 
The great human possession
Imagination
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Hey Man-

Listen to me

Listen to me
Listen to me; I’m on my way
I’m on my way

The bell still tolls 
The bell still tolls
Listen to me; I’m on my way

Listen to me; I’m still not free
The ring in my head
Isn’t that she?

Breaking free, I’m breaking free
I’m on my way
Listen to me

You look lost man
You look lost man
You look lost man
You look lost man
Listen to me; I’m still not free
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The Summer-

The heat is bearing down on me 
The grass is cool beneath my feet
And the song is starting to play

The line is moving forward now
The line is moving forward now
Oh the river and the song

The sunset lands on time
The sunset lands on time
The stars and the summertime

The minor scale is climbing now
The harmony is ringing loud
The song is a part of me

The sunset lands on time
The sunset lands on time
And melody is in my mind

Where can I find this place?
Where does the river flow?
I see it all in memories

The stars and the summertime
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Young Love-

Give me the first time
Don’t give me the last time
Give me the now
Give me the now

I was lost in a distant slumber 
You came to me in a hazy dream and clouded the hole
I woke up cold and lost in the mountains
But you were the fire, burning in my soul

And every song I sing is for you
The words pour through the tear
I’m pouring out my heart dear
Why cannot you hear?

Oh, we loved each other so
But the seed in that garden would not grow
A tragic love too young 
Everything else is just playing around

Oh, give me real!
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My Fucking Lonely Place-

I fall asleep with hateful thoughts in my head
Who knows what they do to my dreams?
I fall asleep to pretend I’m dead
My mind is unraveling at the seams

Slowly slipping away

Don’t talk to me, I’m broken
Don’t follow me, I’m lost
Don’t watch me, I’m ashamed
Just listen 

I can’t get any lower than this
My mind is a rock
I close my eyes to look for answer
No I don’t want to talk

I swear if you talk to me like that 
One more time
I’ll haunt you in your place again 
You’ll pay for your crime

I don’t want it to hurt any more
I don’t want to be so tired
I don’t want any more worries
My ignorance has expired

I did this to myself
I did this to myself
I did this to myself 
I did this to myself
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From Nowhere to You-

I lie down to look at the sky
I see the world from outer space
Soon I start listening closer
Soon, at my void I face

I am not in your world
I have seen the dance of flame
On my shoulder, the weight of despair
But alas, it’s just a game

I am pulled into in the next level
More world is around me
The colors and the magic’s gone
But alas, I am now free

I am almost awake now
All that glitters is not gold
The warmth still surrounds me
But alas, I feel cold

I am free as I can tell now
My spirit is almost free
Coming now you to greet you
But alas, I am lonely
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I Never Came Out and Said It-

Life is going so fast
I’m losing track of you

But I see your face every time
I look at the moon

Why are you always hidden?
Why won’t you let me in?

No wait don’t go 
I have something to say
Let’s start all over again

No wait don’t go
That’s not what I meant 
Listen to the crooning of a dying man

I never came out and said it
But I feel it now just the same
I know now you are life
And love is not just a game

I’ve never asked for so much from anyone 
I don’t know how else to say this
I love you 

I love you
Don’t you know it too?

I love you
Don’t you know it too?
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Cheap Plastic Shit-

My money and power tries to fill
But in the end it only widens
Go to sleep America
We are not the Romans

Society is an elaborate illusion
Time has no meaning 
Fools leading fools and blind leading blind
Your part you are now playing

Faith and society make religion
Hey America, you can’t pray a lie
Who is telling you what?
When did reason inside you die?

Nature tells us to fall
Yet we want to rise
Are we a disease?
Or is it the cure to try?

It doesn’t matter either way
America seems content on its own demise
Selling and consuming - we’ll ravage each other 
Until our dead bodies reach the skies

I was too lazy to write my own lyrics
So I borrowed someone else’s
I found out over time
They were no one’s to begin with

BUY AND SELL BUY AND SELL

In and out of a theatre
But it is still there
You thought you had it coming 
But I am still here

Is that all you want to do?
Build, buy and sell?
Tell me I’m no fucking pig
In this consumerist hell

BUY AND SELL BUY AND SELL

Cut my tooth and eat my flesh
Give me a cut in my eye
Cut my bowels and give me cancer
But don’t let me bury myself alive

Everything is so very clear
Everything right now
I see right through to your soul
I want to take my bow

I fell off your roller coaster
A long time ago
I watch you and know you see me
That’s why I stay close

But then again it’s lonely way out there
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The Electronic Impulses That Flow to Your Brain-

Pulling me apart
Pushing me together
These impulses to my brain

Makes me want to sing

Laughing at me and coaxing me closer
Laughing behind me and telling me to leave

Makes me want to sing

Reading a good book
Crying at a good film

Makes me want to sing

But seeing you
Pushes me farther 
And pulls me closer
Then I’ve ever been before

Here and now
Here and now
Here and now
Here and now
Here and now
Here and now
Here and now
Here and now
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Raging in Silence-

The snow is far above me now
But I feel the cold it will bring

I don’t want to be you

I’ve crashed

I’m flying 
And before I hit the ground 
I’ll tell you this

RAGING IN SILENCE 

TURN UP THE VOLUME IN THE VOID

SCREAMING IN MY EMPTINESS

RAGING IN SILENCE

Don’t hate
Don’t fall back
Don’t fall down
Always forward
Always remember 
To mistakes have no regret
And in the future never forget:

We are one
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To All the Children Still Searching-

Flat on your face 
I know you’re flat on your face
Down on your luck
I know you’re hard to place

Going insane
I know you’re going insane
Can’t just accept
The flowers on the pane

Colors are a sign
These colors they blind
I want to paint them
I see them from behind

See you from here
I saw you from there 
There is no rewind
I tell you beware

Don’t keep it inside
Don’t let it divide
You are like me
You make your own ride
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Cloud Nine-

Just a little closer and I’ll be there
The beads of hope 
Fall from your eyes
Just a little closer and I’ll be there

Oh look, I found a friend

Just a little closer and I’ll be there
Look for me inside of you
I see my own despair
Just a little closer and I’ll be there

Hold me inside of you
I’m lost without your prayer

Just a little closer and I’ll be there
Where is home?
Run to heaven
Just a little closer and I’ll be there

I will not find rapture
Not without you there
I could not be further 
From a place between here and there

Ah, lonely
Won’t stop me from trying 
Ah, lonely
Won’t keep me from crying
Ah, lonely
You stop me from loving
Ah, lonely
You keep me from mine
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A Glimmer-

Sing about the moon
Write and reach to the stars
Smile when you don’t have to
Search all night and cry in your car

Because we sing together
A melody of sorrow
But the harmonies reach ever forward
Always to tomorrow

You need not tell me that it’s ok
I have all I need today
But to see your warmth
It shows me the rays

That’s all I hope for 
Is that someone can stay
Stop fretting for nothing
And live to say:
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The Song Has Gone on Too Long- 

The notes, they go together so well
My hair has grown too long
It’s reaching places it shouldn’t have been
Maybe this length is wrong

My hair is unkempt
I forget to keep it nice and clean
Trim and crisp 
Ready to be seen

But this way you see my just how I am
Every morning when I wake out of bed
Tried and angry
Wanting to shave it all from my head

I talk to myself when I feel down
My god, my hair is too long
But it shows me as I really am
Much like my song
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