Track title: Agency

When the bad times happen in lifeWhen weeping and dealing with strifeWhen the lack of understanding seems rifeThen it’s time to pick up wisdom’s jackknife Then is when you start to ask “why”Then repeat it as all the answers flyThen continue until all but one dieThen, finally, your truth is nigh Self-deception has ruined so many thingsKnowing your inner truth gives life wings Many times we know things we don’t want to seeMany times we blow things refusing to let them beMany times we sow things quite impatientlyMany times we know woe for refusing our agency The magic of living […]

Track title: Poseur

Tried to make me just like youClaim I don’t know what to saySo I left, now you’re the foolDon’t need words, I walk away You think you’re such a cipherI know you’re a conniverScene? You’re the contriverFailed? Then I’m your survivor With you there’s no mysteryNothing but sophistry Think the world must go your wayBuckle up, and better praySo afraid of commitmentYour partners always lament When once I was at your sideNever once your look of prideTrust and truth with you just dieRelationship you divide Tattered remnants so gristlyYour best is my history Once I thought you demiurgeThen you from […]

Track title: Fraught

Sit and play with words in my every dayAlways perturbed how much they cannot saySeems ironic how words get in the waySo much talking but life it does not sway Have this feeling my life has gone all wrongIs this struggle because I am headstrongHave I been on the wrong page all alongThink I’ve lost the plot else I don’t belong My words are always in such disarrayMaybe this is why happy cannot stayI have felt this same way for all my lifeOften less, never more, it’s always strife My wishes for peace ever come to naughtIn constant turmoil, I […]

Track title: Keepsake

We human beings make up one large tribeHard sometimes to see, differences divideOur teachers advocate the circumscribeBut we prefer to indulge in the jibe Competitive survival, that’s our curseRuining the planet, and making things worse Caught between progress and our primal mightFears of change regress, can’t embrace our lightChase innovation, each day and all nightStill struggle to balance wrong and right Now the harvest comes, pollutants long sownThe super-site drum numbers only grownHuman hubris loves to think the world oursKilling biosphere this ownership sours Rather collapse than disaster negate“Fix it tomorrow” – the future’s checkmate We can’t be moochers, for […]

Track title: Progression

The universe spins to give us this chanceExperiences, our lives to enhanceThese countless others, to find our romanceSo much more than seen at any first glance Good morning, sunshine, good morning, new dayWelcome this new chance to live, dance, and playGonna find our joy, convince it to stayFind what we’re here for, chase it come what may This one life is all we shall ever knowFace unto the sky, let your being glow Like all living things, we are made to moveProcess of beings, by action we proveGotta keep going, delays we removeLife is progression, get into its groove Sunlight […]

Track title: Agism

Fifty-five, the age I fadeRelevance lost, in endless shadeNo longer needed, no longer claimedThe world moves on, and no one’s blamed EEOC says it straight, outrightOver fifty-five, that’s your plightYounger faces, eager to shareLess is more, the price they’ll spareBut wisdom’s worth, what about that?Experience counts, and we’ve sure had thatFamily too, once close and trueNow withdrawn, that’s nothing new I’m lost in a world that’s moved awayNo longer relevant, just cost to defrayFifty-five, the age of disarrayWithdrawn from life, left nothing to say Invisible lines, they cut so deepAging out of relevance, we must keepTrying to adapt, but it’s […]

Track title: Noblesse Oblige (RezPlz)

Noblesse oblige: time to fulfill your wordBring unto us the life that we deserveStop with the sick games that only perturbEnd the disdain before you’re on the curb All generations experience changeNo human elite rests out of its range Profiteering power is ever strongLabor’s voice raised, battles are longStrikes and boycotts each begin the next plightOf 1800’s, twas a fair wage fight Turn of century, first was a coal strikeFar from the first upon labor’s turnpikeEach decade ’til now, if not much soonerLabor decries business, the impugner Today, the global bankers all cavortEvidence of manifest human tort Value delusions from […]

Track title: Limerence

Limerence is the word of which I speakMind obsession, no healthy human seeksHook of history that sticks where you’re weakPulls the ancient wounds, always makes you shriek Love to be in love more than love anotherLove despair too, decadently smother Entangled with a man named for a flowerBorderline narcissistic, I gave him this powerDeep wisdom in lessons as he did devourAs with most endings, me I did him scour So I always say aloud, wishing it were trueTen full years it took to really follow through There are still some times on a really quiet nightI catch myself wondering if […]

Track title: Illusion Groove

Dancing in the nightOhIt’s all a showFlashing lights and colorsLet the feelings flow (oh-oh)Faces in the crowdBut do we really know?What’s behind the smilesBehind the glow? MirrorMirrorTell meWho’s the one today?Shifting shapes and shadowsWatch them sway (hey-hey)All these forms and bodiesThey’re just here to playTruth is in the silenceThey fade away Illusion groovesWe moveWe move (move, move)Lost in the momentNothing to prove (ooh-yeah)Just an appearanceDon’t be fooled (fooled)Dissolve the visionsFind the truth Spinning disks and rhythmsFeel the beat insideIn this dance of mayaThere’s no place to hide (hide, hide)Eyes just like mirrorsReflecting worlds so wide (so wide)Temporary pleasuresRide the tide […]

Track title: Wage Slavery

ASCAP registration #: 925467684 they say our value is merely economici say they sure are sounding histrionicthey say a worker must be self-sufficienti say let’s see corps be half as proficient I have to admit it’s increasingly ironicHow all wage payers call themselves friendsBut how they gleefully fuck you ain’t platonicNor to mention how they treat you when it ends like ants and grasshoppers all over againkeep us fallin’ down ’cause if we get up we win whether it’s late stage or you call it stage fourno one mistakes when death stands in the doorwhen the balance is gone then […]