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: Quarry
ASCAP registration #: 925500854 I played the stupid games and followed all the rulesI followed leaders even when they were clearly foolsHeld the door, self forswore, made use of all the toolsStill the same ol patsy, circumstance ridicules If everyone is the hero of their own storyWhy is it my tale is just so goddamned gory?Why so many tears and no one’s ever sorry?They get diamonds but I’m stuck in the quarry The only hero I know is the one I’ve never knownFramed by negative space no place it could have grown Within me is no hero, no epic warrior […]
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 […]
Track title: Wide View
I am not much of a social acolyteI’m not a follower, no clout parasiteNo member of the cult of personalityLife on my own terms, no strings holding me Seeing perspectives, more than just my ownBrings benefits through which I have grownTaught lessons and skillful means were honedRescue and saved me as time has shown They often say too open a mind makes the brain fall outBut I say seeing more than self better the systems flout Because you cannot trick a mind equipped with a wide viewBecause you cannot leave behind who runs ahead the queueBecause you cannot circumvent critical […]
Track title: Granny
Granny, why do you live so far away?I never really know just what to sayI never really wanted it to be this way“These are the only cards I have to play” A false conversation that plays in my mindOf a family that isn’t, history ain’t kind Granny, why can’t I just talk to you?It’s not my decision; I’d never do that, booThere is a middleman who I cannot get throughWith terms and conditions for me to imbue Though touting a battle cry of unconditional loveStill keeping me away, steel hand in velvet glove Granny, why won’t you live with us?Sweetie, […]
Track title: Sublime
It’s just life, it’s gonna be okayStill got tomorrow in just a dayLooking forward holds shadows at bayReminds it won’t always be this way Life is a process moving forwardTo let it digress loses rewardThen the quiesce all energy storedDeath comes when you’re no longer toward Our stubborn persistence gives us a chanceOur struggle, resistance, remember to dance This magical blink that we call lifeIn which we’re all linked, in which we striveNeed us to forethink, so we shall thriveTogether uplink, refactor the drive And this is the way, for me and youDiscover ballet, dance our way throughDiscover broadway, the […]
Track title: Rearview
Of hearts in life there were never manyThey came then went much like bad penniesI gave up the effort around age twentyWell I say it, then in three years… progeny His names would change, he acted so strangeHe’d often derange, claiming the world to arrangeAs for me, there was never any rest in sightRaise my child while trying to keep him upright Of course it fell apart, as usually it does doOn my own again, but not quite cause now there’s two So many years gone from me, just blurs of time remainDisassociated identities running rife in my brainLittle Star […]
Track title: Always Be This Way
His name was you-ness an’he was a lil cockFirst to drop a fist and double aught in stock‘baccy chewin, racist brewin, I took one on the chophe left me on a byway, he took my son full op you-ness and his childhood sweetheart made my life a total hellyou-ness and his new wife stole my son from me as wellyou-ness took it all but I lived to tell the taleyou-ness used the courts to my rights blackmail blackmailed by the courts when eight months pregnantcapitulate to terminate my son’s maternal rightthinking when he’s 18, I could explain itthen our future […]
Track title: Isegoria
To be ostracized was supposed to be a ten year sentenceRaise hands to sky, I’m closing sixty, and still doing penanceWe should remind ourselves that isonomia is not isegoriaDon’t sleep on this just because the new words may bore ya When Solon lived corrupted courts went against the poor every timeGovernment and military abusing, not once would they catch a fineSolon cleared all debt but he also the crafted rule of lawDistinctions soon breed new dissent as those pillars begin to fall Cleisthenes then arrived to better set his suitA people’s revolution by greed eventually was mootAs long before and […]