Opinion
Fate's Cruel Hand
Predicament
The Fault Line
When I Fail
Cease
Maybe She Will
The Elements
In the Mirror
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the first thing i remember was the friction in the room and
that brown spinet piano that never played in tune the cruel
impatient tyrant, the frustrated malcontent, the need to find the
pieces, and the absence of cement no one ever told me about the
right way to love and no one ever showed me what we're supposed
to be made of so don't be too forthright about what you think
that i should be and i'll willingly accept your low opinion of me
the last thing i remember was the slamming of the door and the
resonance of my imperfection broke the silence once more the
selfish angry bastard who doesn't want to hear i tried to learn
compassion you turned the other ear the worn out broken record
who doesn't fit the mold the righteous independent, the mood so
harsh and cold momma never told me about the right way to love
and daddy never showed me what we're supposed to be made of so
don't be too forthright about what you think that i should be and
i'll willingly accept your low opinion of me
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there's a leaf in the sky and it's floating on by a new season
dawns but something is gone there are days in the past and days
waiting for me i don't need a visionary in order to see you can
do what you want to me 'cuz i don't have the energy to retreat or
hold ground or barely to stand but i feel the sting from fate's
cruel hand like a bond true and pure we're never quite sure our
choice in the play as it erodes away when you can't compete it
ends with total defeat you just let it go so nobody knows you're
suffering you can do what you want to me 'cuz i don't have the
energy to retreat or hold ground or barely to stand but i feel
the sting from fate's cruel hand when you're not looking it takes
from you
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ithis predicament time won't solve this predicament i've 've
got hope but i can't talk about the future i've got desire but i
can't exercise it on my own time won't solve got pain but to tell
it hurts the one i love iattenuates every day time won't solve
this predicament time won't solve this predicament troubles 've
got strength but it never go away just resurface on another day i've
got heart but now it's weakened by an empty space i've got soul
but it's been soured by the bane of hate time they won't solve
this predicament time won't solve this predicament
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the sun comes up with promise and my eyes burn open wide and
the sting compounds the torture from the vacant hole inside my
conscious recollection of the past events all seem to verify the
emotion that now envelops me dogged as a drone stagnant as the
stone weathered and alone living on the fault line there's no one
here to listen but there's always room for more they pretend to
give you your say before they slam the door there's very little
patience, and very little love there's just your constant
puzzlement for what you're guilty of dogged as a drone stagnant
as the stone weathered and alone living on the fault line no one
need deliver me from such a familiar place i've come to terms and
work in this ribald downtrodden state it's subliminal friction
under a kind of veneer and a form of cold injustice that keeps me
stationed here dogged as a drone stagnant as the stone weathered
and alone living on the fault line
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one day my life will be a chocolate shake and late night t.v.
but right now i'm afraid of everything that is goin' down too
many decisions too much responsibility and no one is there to
hold me when i fail like the deer who knows he won't survive the
winter so he runs in fear the drifts too deep, the browse too
scarce, the able too strong to compete and i wonder if i was
stronger when i didn't care if no one was there to hold me when i
fail
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blacktop pavement cover me like a chemical reaction or a steam
roller spreading randomly there's a distant buzz, and a low
frequency it tickles my ear, it rumbles under my feet and it
shakes the leaves off of every tree, violently what pretension!
everlasting peace everything must cease institution of the hill
like a beacon in the mind of an ancestor to ignite a people's
will there's a shadowed stain on the west facade it has spread
like decay to enshroud the fraud and the descendants find it oh
so odd oh so odd what pretension! everlasting peace everything
must cease grave memorial hewn white stone like the comforting
caress of a mother or a friend you've always known it evokes such
pain and significance what was once is reduced to remembrance and
the generations pass without recompense what pretension!
everlasting peace everything must cease
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laws of gravity fight uncertainty but i sit here without a
clue life had different meaning and i was only dreaming someone
else came to her rescue now she's gone and i am too maybe she
will want to have me near enough to feel unparted maybe she will
ask me for some help to get her new place started maybe she will
see me 'round and want to take a mid-day walk maybe just feel
lonely and will want to talk with me in cold and darkest weather,
the times we had together come to me and i smile to sleep then
clouds dissipate and i soon re-awake to such a living tragedy i'm
resolved to pondering maybe she will call me up to see if i am
doing alright maybe she will remember the times when i would hold
her so tight maybe she will think about the letters that i used
to send someday change her mind and want to find me again they
all say i'm wasting my whole life away but i don't care because i
have this candle from our courting days and it's almost gone but
dim hope flickers anyway maybe she will look at those old
pictures and get teary-eyed maybe she will feel my lonely
heartbeat and hear me cry maybe she will help me shovel out of
this misery one day say she's sorry for giving up on me maybe she
will
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you have always lived like this the ice blue chill the dark
gray sky the frozen ground and the helpless feeling of
insignificance you have always lived like this the day's routine
the day's unsure the day is done and the dreams of being
somewhere you can't be you have always fought the elements they
take on different forms there has always been a struggle with the
things you can't perform you will always fight the elements they
are not in your hands you will always fight the elements unless
you understand unless you understand unless you understand that
you have always lived like this
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your arrogance! it will surely bring you down is there a
judgement appropriate for you that you spit at others? look hard
in the mirror then in ten years look again there will be lines,
sags, and rashes but you'll have come no further than where you
are today still helpless, all the while protracting your imminent
demise, and feigning superiority there will be a trail of those
you have injured and made worse by your vicious acts of greed
without regard you piece of shit! (repeatedly) look in the mirror
there you'll see the truth of your ways
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he wakes with the glow of adventure and hope the morning
smells sweet and replete with opportunity he dressed into another
day feeling lucky to be alive though nobody follows him hesomeone's
going to have to bring him back to earth he's getting out of hand
his alacrity for life is 's sure his future is bright bring him
back more than people stand oooohhhhh bring him back to earth
discipline and toil, well lit made her blood boil the finer
things were impatient waiting discovery like a bird in spring the
sun made her sing with seeming inattention she was on to other
things bring her back someone's going to have to bring her back
to land she's way too high her alacrity for life ainget by
ooohhhh bring her back to earth who's it going to be? i can
assure you it ain't gonna be me! bring them 't going to help her
back someone's gonna try and bring them back to land and i'll be
there to catch them when they fall and send them up again
ooooohhhhh bring 'em back to earth
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