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: 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 […]
Thought (IFS)
I know all my parts. I never had the luxury of self-deception. I can and do validate myself every day and usually for most of the day, because caring for myself in the face of all this casual UN-caring by the world and others, inclusive of family, has made it clear I must do so if I wish to survive. Yes, I am angry. But I am not unreasonably so, nor do I allow it to control my balance or being. My anger, my fears, my regrets, my resilience, all of my qualities and parts get their cuddle, their time […]
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 […]