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Vox Populi Vox Dei

I wish I could leave here
Tear myself away
Avoid the chorus of blame
The moving lips of people

Building castles in the air
I wish they were rational
The religious calm would order
Maybe peace would follow

Then we’d know

False themes a tradition
Will education
Then organized by fear

Your monkeys, hearing voices
Just stop!

Bleak

On the inward bleak
All is polite
Wayward mind
Making its way

Alive, it sets forth
On open mind
The torn and sorry
I adore

By falling asleep
You threw away your life
Avoiding the answers
That only you provide; all is gone

The world will never, never
Let you in.

I am the one
You beat into nothing
A gosh that moved through you
And loved you

You are the one
I’ll never forgive
A scar
I wear proudly and open

The World will never, never
Let you in…

Intervallum

I’m risking everything
I’ll chance the loss, and fight
I’m risking everything
I’ll tempt the bleak, and night

I can’t touch you
Without destroying you
I can’t help you
Without infecting you

I’m not enlightened
I’ve just chained my demons tight
I’m not human
I’ve just stayed out of the light

Breakable

There is a crack
Through the surface
That reappears each repair
When the water reaches the highest

The thickening of the shell
Does not repulse the weather
That has its way
Even in Hell

You’re too breakable to keep
You’re too weak

The tension of a string
Allows a note to sing
But the weight causes
To cut through the bone

Glue connects chasms
Adheres all the tone
So the moaning of sighs
Can be heard

I believed, I believed in something
I believe, I believed in someone

I’ll make it work
I’ll correct mistakes unknowing
I’ll make it work
I’ll fix the sin unseen then…

I’ll find you out
Drag the demon into the light
I’ll tear it out
Excise the Satan in your psyche

So we remain unbroken

Threads pulled taut
Run parallel
Lines unbroken
Run forever
Things may break
But still have function
There is a need create substance
Afraid and hurt
Is my anger
Primal fear is deflecting
Breakable, inevitable
I’m not to be thrown away…

I believed something
I believed in you

Listen

I can listen
You will follow with your eyes
I can understand
You will stand there and deny
All that we are

I will speak out
You’ll hear nothing
I can see through you
But that changes nothing

Follow me if you can linear
Thought unforgiving and twisting
Speak to me if you can honestly
Unafraid of what we are

Is there a soul in there
Looking back?
Or a mimic of a clown?
Your own dislike barriers you.
So deep, you speak : There is no sound!

Your loss so profound
You’ll deny yourself
You’re a ghost
Trapped in a wall

You could be cured of your pain
But, instead:
You’ll have to listen to, the thoughts, the voices in your head
The thoughts, the voices in your head
The thoughts, the voices in your head

Listen to me if you can
The truth bleak and bothersome
It’s not over
So I’m not done

Wake

Wake from your death
I can hear your breathing
Wait, don’t get up
I will save your soul
A stranger, now I am

Please don’t upset
The care I’ve taken
For the good is met
For you are not forsaken

Chorus
Speak to me
Let me know your sin
Say to me
Talk to me
You’re everything
Let me know I’ll win

Pray to understand
The words I’ve bled
A son though I was
A stranger now I am
A stranger now I am

(CHORUS)

I saw you twisting and turning
Like your insides were burning
You missed it, it’s over
I felt the pain that was so undeserving

Please don’t get up, I will walk your steps
Please don’t ignore
The stranger, now I am
The stranger, now I am
The stranger, now I am
The stranger, now I am

Things left over

Now take the father
Down to the water
Empty the past out into
The whole

Breathe a silence
In toward the pain and
See the innocence
In the old

Take the memories
In through the out door
See the innocence
As it really is

Rename the scars now
Rethink the guilty
Of the past, through many
Childhood

Did someone really hurt your soul?

CHORUS
I found a box
A pair of socks
Cassette tape
Of religious words
A leather bag of
Things thrown away

A needle set
A note pad, scribble with
Forgotten words
I have his books that speak of nothing

There was a list
Of things to do
I never did, I never will
I’d rather just feel the lost instead

A blind moth is absent
A flame of purpose
Let go the anger
It’s a crippling emotion

(CHORUS)

Saturn’s Sun

I don’t know
But neither does anyone else

I see you cold
Like a column of stone.
A model of a human object
In fear of animation
I’m here to replace your God
With something profane and puzzling
I will steal your comfort
Undermine your rituals of meaningful self delusion and destruction

Would you be better off instead without my truth?
Would you be better off instead?

I would smile and stand back, allow the wind to blow you about through the
World. Would this be the hand of God?
If I do, by some stroke of luck and force of will, aid you in avoiding a few
“mistakes”. What will be the result?

Separate Silence

Time and distance
Fall away
Bones to rubble
And, mind back to clay

CHORUS
I’ll take the blame for this
For a while?
We’ve come so very far
But I’m unsure … hot I got here.

I am dulling under time
I am burning with remorse
My fevered separation:
Is the cold … of silence.

I am he
Without sympathy
I pretend
I need nothing at all

(CHORUS)

Don’t try to talk
Don’t try to speak
Don’t try to reach out
To anyone

Don’t try to talk
Don’t try to speak
Don’t try to reach out
To anyone

You said it was your last day
I remember the look on your face
It was detached and thrown away

For a while

I breathe in slow
Like there is a reason
A forced smile behind a mask
I try to forget it all

Step back, before I throw a punch
Let it be, or you’ll cry
I’d hate to feel that I’d done something (wrong).

Can’t understand why I feel
Tension, pain, can’t comprehend
Better leave the malign alone

Step back, least while I’m falling down
Forgive me, now and then
I’d hate to feel that I’m someone (wrong).

(For a while)

Be far away
When my blood creeps,
Nerves pricked
Don’t speak to me
You’ll conquer my scattering trust

Forget it all, there’s no looking back
Tomorrow’s lost forever
I’d hate to feel anything at all

I breathe in slowly
I breathe in slowly
Like there is a reason

(For a while)

I’ll breathe, I’ll think, be someone
I’ll live, I’ll rise, get something

(In a while)

I’ll know, act, make happen
I’m sane, I’m real, I’m accepted

I appeared much too late, to save him, to be him
I waited and drifted along; to feel!

The current runs too deep, to drink it, to wask
He longed for the sleep.

(For a while)

I’ll breathe, I’ll think, be someone
I’ll live, I’ll rise, Then I’ll die…