The Broken-

Under god 
Formed one soul
Ran away
Something unwhole

Broken life, a lost home
Incomplete and dry
A colder form has now set in
Please don’t feed me more lies

And there is no why
That’s all I want to know
Why once, where was a fire
Lays now only ice and snow

How can I love another
Wholly and complete
When all I have been taught from you
Ends in defeat

Loss is what I know
Love will go away
Nothing I care for stays with me
No matter what I pay

And I will let you in
If you take me from the broke
From the endless sadness in being alone
On these thoughts I choke

Tell me they were wrong
Tell me I am too
Tell me my children can have a better life
And tell me this I can do

You’ve made our lives a slide
Ever sliding down
When a missing wall from our fortresses
Left us all with frowns

I am so let down
Every time I walk in
I see the broken in their eyes
And the falseness in their grin
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A Little Worry That Keeps Creeping In-

Smokin’ away your hopes and dreams
You know they won’t come true anyways

Smokin’ away your hopes and dreams
You know it can’t happen anyways

What we need around here is
A little change
What we need around here is
A little change
What we need around here is
A little change
What we need around here is
A little change

Eveything in this town reminds you 
Of her if you want it to

You see her in the halls, the mirrors and walls
But only ‘cause you want to
And you know you don’t have to

See yourself and her in the future
See you in the future together

Can’t sink into love without a healing touch
Can’t ask for the future, can’t ask for that much

But everything in this town reminds you
Of her but only ‘cause I want it to

What we need around here is
A little change
What we need around here is
A 
Little change
What we need around here is
A little 
A little
A little
Change
What we need around here is
A little change
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Fixing Clocks-

Fixing clocks can be done only with the utmost care
A useless thing they are when they fade to disrepair

What for a clock, but to tune into nothing
As for a man to turn the sea of love into something

If you take away your lullaby, you leave a ticking clock
At night I’m left alone, hearing only my own tick-tock

Hearts like broken clocks
Fix me slowly and tenderly

Fix these broken parts, and please look past my grime
Or I will be at the mercy of being a useless measure of time 
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She’s a Submarine-

She’s on a submarine, on a mission
No time, nor place to be looking at the sky and wishing

Transmissions become difficult when she’s delved so deep
But she’s going somewhere important; I’ll let that side of me sleep

The purest words I can say
From so far away-
I love you and I want to 
Be with you

That’s all I can communicate 
Through this depth of ocean
When you come back up to refuel
I’ll have more than words, a potion 	

Wouldn’t want to distort what’s between us
Or shoot a sound hole in her hull 
So I’ll chart maps and keep myself busy 
And not worry if I’m becoming too dull

I’ll be here when she surfaces
Two wandering sailors with common purposes
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X Minus One-

Like a burning ember in my bowels
Keeps me at X minus one
Just have to work a little harder
And keep my head away from the gun

Nights
Where sleep is like trying to grab air
And life is far from fair
Scratching out all my hair
Wishing for the end right there

No cure
Nothing really known at all
No writing on the wall
Everyday another stall
And no one to call

Fill
Myself with red pills
Pretend it slows my ills
Turns mountains into hills
And murders into kills

Stress
And the sickness comes again
Slowly count back from ten
Find my inner Zen
Then cut myself with a pen

And though
Sometimes I barely get through the night
And nothing seems fair or right
And happiness seems so out of sight
You and life are worth the fight
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The Haze-

We are taught to fear one another
Isolation is control
Go home
Fall into Your hole

Get your tasks done and don’t ask questions
Nobody wants to hear Your whiny voice anyways
You know slavery was once legal?
We have all become masters of the haze

We adapt and find ways to survive
Don’t worry, that’s just the way things are
Go back to Your home
(In Your car)

What am I being told?
How am I really getting what is being sold?

So cheap
Making something closer to no thing
Always looking out for number one
(You) are worth every thing

You’re happy with what you have
Yet for some reason you want more
You want it all
Your explanation I implore

Stop
Look around 
We’re building hell on Earth

Plastic
Nothing’s real
Let’s burn all that fat in the girth 

It’s time
For us to evolve
Unless there’s death and rebirth

A race 
Towards nothing
Where are you running?

Can’t sleep 
Tonight I burn
For I’m lost in the haze

Get busy 
Quiet down
Become lost in his maze

If being happy 
Is apathy
I could die alone tonight

Where’d you go?
My precious 
Something
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Seen It-

Predictable 
Surprise me and I will love you

Give me a yes instead of a no
Give me lecture instead of a show

I’ve done it all as they told me to 
I’ve torn myself from you
Oh boo-hoo
Nothing that falls apart will ever surprise me
Death is nothing new

Let’s build something beautiful
Against the bitter wind
If it starts to crumble
Let’s build something up again

Take me away from loss
And I’ll love you with all I’ve got

Falling is a bore
Show me some real dancing
Shake me to the core

I’ve seen a thousand futures
Each as good as the past
I’ve been to places far away
It’s hard (but not impossible)
To make those good things last
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The Absence of Evil-

I recall a flowered shirt
Covered your body so well
Short brown hair
I saw past the shell

Your youthful dance
Your blue-eyed smile
Your feet turned in
Such wonderful style

Something bad inside me went away

Broke from the norm 
And held my hand
Showed me your dove
Showed me your sand

So full of beauty 
Such luscious lips
And the way these hands felt 
Around your hips

Something bad inside me went away

If good times are gone
And in its place only a song
I’d feel so bad
I’d feel so wrong

When we are close, there are no wounds to repair
I am so sorry that I have made things unclear
I do more than want you
I love you and a keep a place for you here
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Hidden-

Ah yes
I seem to have 
Neglected that which you call a fact
Now my opinion I retract
I promise I wont act

And though
With myself 
I’ve made a pact
This information I have lacked
How my voice has not been backed!

These people keep telling me things I have not heard
But I’ve known it all by knowing not, so that’s just absurd

Disappearing is not hard
But rather finding myself
Like a card

When I lose myself life becomes long, without beat
When I start to reappear, life is short but oh so sweet

For now it’s become quite apparent
No happiness lasts forever
Like beautiful broken glass in my skin
Accepting whatever endeavor

I’m tired now
You can’t see me

I went outside and found a cave
It was dark
But I found something I wish I could save

A game kids play
When they have nowhere they need stay
Reminded me there’s more to life
Then constantly being astray
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Technicality-

Free
Approaching escape velocity
I’m leaving this place
I’m faster than the breeze

Free
I’ve hit escape velocity

There’s a technicality
I’m somewhere I should not be
Should I turn about face,
After all I’ve seized?

I’ve left the atmosphere
I cannot breathe
I’ve got to get back
To my family

An anomaly
Access to escape velocity
All reservations
Have been buried

Something’s eating at me
Like a brick in the sea
Get me back on the land
We’ll build a colony

A colony 
A colony

And when we get tired we’ll blast off
Hit escape velocity

Find a technicality

We are anomalies
Among the trees
Flying above the sea
Come back home to our colony

We are anomalies
Among the trees
Flying above the sea
Come back home to our colony

Sea washed bricks building colonies
Sea washed bricks building colonies

Now let’s fly
At escape velocity
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Words Have Failed Me-

These words create
Confusion
Worry
Distortion

But I am solid and working
I have love and need in their places
It’s in my nature to paint words blue
And include familiar faces

I’ll continue walking
With my head held high
My worries are my own
If I’ve somehow transmitted them to you
I lied

It’s not worth it to try and get closer
Through these miles and miles of wires
Talking just confuses things
Like a wet blanket on the fire

In my favorite dreams I’m with you

I accept that I care for you 
And miss you

This distance has me longing 
For the chance to meet
It will make our precious time together 
All the more sweet

I’d give anything to feel those loving lips
And to place these hands upon those hips
When I think about this my heart rips
Because all I can do is send thoughts of these 
Through these damn electronic blips

And though I can’t truly hear you from so far away
When you come back I’ll listen to anything you have to say
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Entropy-

It keeps becoming more complex 
That will never end
Nowadays we do it at such a speed
Time and space will bend

Watch the buildings fall
Retreat behind your city walls
A great storm is upon us
We didn’t heed the calls

We’ve got rocks from the moon
Spraying from our guns
We’ve got weapons bigger than the world
Something was more important than our daughters and sons

Our ideals have become spread too thin
Never have we known so little about so much
Blurbs and bits flashing across my screen
So much to see but nothing to touch

More road signs keep appearing 
I’ve never been more directionless
I keep shooting myself with these moon bullets
Kissing the emotionless

I am a modern mess
These cries for help are echoes
This is not the way it is

On the verge of something great
And to your dogmas you clutch
Keeping what you want
So much to see but nothing to touch

So disparity is your answer
The universe is spinning out of control
Remember there’s choice
When you dig yourself a hole

I see past your stupid lies, like bullet wounds in the skies
You are nothing without your drug
Stop holding on to nothing 
Letting truth slip through your sight

In the words you breathe like smoke
There’s so much beauty to behold
You aren’t being talked to
You’re being sold

You are dead with nothing to start
Because you stopped listening 
To the beat of your heart 
 
You’ve nothing left to hide 
My morals may be similar to yours
Only I got them from inside

Your books tell me all I need to know
That right is glaringly obvious 
You are a show

Your beliefs 
Are 
Nothing

You have chosen 
The path of destruction

Argue about anything else
This is not worth my time

It’s time for something to break 
It’s time for something to change

Now that you know it’s not so easy
Now that you know it’s not so simple

Forget my future if it doesn’t hold you
Forget my future if I can’t be true

This is how it feels to step into the night
This is how it feels to give up the fight
This is how it feels to let my blood flow into nothing
This is how it feels to lose hold of all my right

This is where we’re going
Further and further away 
Entropy taking over so slowly
Why can’t we hold on to each other today?

This is how it feels to see my life sucked 
Through a hole that is not there
This is how it feels to die
This is how it feels to just not care

This is how it feels to be completely without form Lost in a sea of overwhelming 
thoughts of decay and destruction It is the way of the universe and It creeps in This is 
how it feels… feels… feels?
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The Warmth-

Woke up by myself in the dark somewhere else
Just another winter afternoon
Woke up in a house full of secrets
Woke up to someone else’s tune

I took a bath in the place of the gods
Bad thoughts floating away with the steam
Came downstairs to see who was there
She massaged me until I fell into a dream

And to think earlier that day
I was in a spaceship a million miles away
Either way
I didn’t stay

Lazy eyes faded
Hidden in a bed of roses
Those gray colors created the jaded
Ah, the black and white as she poses

With all these flower petals at my feet
And with this food, a touch of heat
With this warmth, a taste of the sweet
I just want to share
With those for whom I care
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Detoxification-

I’ve gone inside
I’m hiding out
What are you afraid of?
What are you about?

You are all but gone
Not even leaving a sear
When imagination is salvation
When I have nothing to fear

I’m here at my controls
All these signals from my senses 
I can see what I want to see
I can soar across any of these fences

Escape with me to a world
Where challenges come like flowers
Where these rooms are far away
Where the fireworks are meteor showers

And inside, all this rain
Yet still I feel no pain
All these questions 
Like a hurricane

Indeed these words of the sea
Have more meaning than I’ll ever know
I’m in a place you could never be
I’m the winter inside of the snow

What was that? 
I truly
Loved
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Sparkles and Flashes-

Is that really me?
Was I really there?
Sparkles on a lake
Worthy to share

In everyone
Or am I simply 
No one?

Another ray on the crowd
A flake of herb or spice
The keeper of the lighthouse
A sticky grain of rice

Give me your worry
Give me your sorrow
Understanding I could never fit in
Knowing all I do is borrow

Drink the light breaking through the canopy  
Or the glittering mountainside
This valley has me wondering
Why not keep all this inside

But there I go again
Hiding against the grain
Once again I broke something
On to another game
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