We can go for a walk where it's quiet and dry
And talk about precious things

//

Frankly, Mr. Shankly, I'm a sickening wreck
I've got the twenty-first century breathing down my neck
I must move fast, you understand me
I want to go down in celluloid history, Mr. Shankly

//

Frankly, Mr. Shankly, this position I've held
It pays my way, and it corrodes my soul
Oh, I didn't realise that you wrote poetry
I didn't realise you wrote such bloody awful poetry, Mr. Shankly
Frankly, Mr. Shankly, since ... read more

so cool

cool

cool

cool

very cool

very cool

cool

cool

cool

//

Urbanization
Scarification
Population exodus
There is no Planet B
Open your eyes and see

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Sinners are grinners, ear to ear
Baby Jesus sheds a tear

//

I'm just a poor boy
Living frugally
I see Mars on TV
I see people happy
I work fields with
Blistered fingers
I look starward
That world has no place for me

//

Mars for the privileged
Earth for the poor
Mars terraforming slowly
Earth has been deformed
Just forget it, ya ain't coming here
The ticket's too dear
I stare sadly into my ... read more

I keep on not dying, the sun keeps on rising.
I remember my life as if it's just some
dreams that I don't trust, burning off, layered thick,
a cargo that I haul, wounds and loves unresolved.

//

I wake up with the sun in my eyes.
The present moment tries
but now I'm back where I was when I was 20,
crashing through salal alone and mumbling,
one moment thinking I'm wise
and in the next one I writhe,
trying to re-remind myself of something
learned then forgotten. Countless sunrises
burying the ... read more

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As we walk
As we walk through this valley of death
Listen, please listen, listen, listen
Y'all wanna have two-way conversations
Y'all wanna have two-way conversations
But let's put everything on the table, let's put everything
We ain't gonna bounce around it
Nah, we ain't gonna bounce around shit
Got my ... read more

I pulled back the drape thing on the tent. There was a crystal ball at the table, and behind it, a girl wearing a hat. She smiled, and asked me if I wanted my fortune read. I said okay and sat down. I thought about it for a minute, and asked her if she would rather go on the roller coaster instead.

//

creeping up into the sky
stopping, at the top, and then starting down
the girl grabbed my hand, I clutched it tight
I said good-bye to the ground

//

we stuck out our hands and met the ... read more

you used to be alright
what happened?
did the cat get your tongue?
did your string come undone?

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I have no idea what I am talking about
I am trapped in this body and can't get out

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has the light gone out for you?
because the light's gone for me
it is the 21st century
it is the 21st century
it can follow you like a dog
it brought me to my knees

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I'm a lie

//

don't get any big ideas
they're not gonna happen
you paint yourself white
and fill up with noise
but there'll be something ... read more

asylums with doors open wide
where people had paid to see inside
for entertainment they watch his body twist
behind his eyes he says, "I still exist"

//

in arenas he kills for a prize
wins a minute to add to his life
but the sickness is drowned by cries for more
pray to God, make it quick, watch him fall

//

and I picked on the whims of a thousand or more
still pursuing the path that's been buried for years
all the dead wood from jungles and cities on fire
can't replace or relate, ... read more

tempted in our minds
tormented inside lie
wounded and afraid
inside my head
falling through changes

//

empty in our hearts
crying out in silence
wandered out of reach
too far to speak
drifting unable

//

and if I should fall, would you hold me?
would you pass me by?
for you know I'd ask you for nothing
just to wait for a while

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so confused
my thoughts are taking over
unwanted, arising space me instead
won't let go

//

I'd like to laugh at what you said
but I just can't find a smile
I ... read more

unfinished

it's like a pearl
formed from the pressure
of all the blood
in a world of nightmares
it's feeding on love
it's growing stronger
and coming alive
it's so scared and confused
but it still wants to survive

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all we can do is try again
all we can do is try again
all we can do is try again
all we can do is try again

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fragile survival
falling through the cracks of what's left

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there's a part of me that wants to keep destroying me
I'll keep coming back together ... read more

like the pleasure and the pain
like the wind through the rain
"if you stay with me", she said
"you'll never make it alone"

//

lay down by my side
let us watch the universe
steal a little time
take a little breath

//

I hear the moon, the witness
I hear the hand that caresses
the head of the sleeper
and as the night evanesces
the distant siren madness

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yes you can enter my heart
a little dance for a start
yes you can enter my heart
but leave the ... read more

sometimes I can't believe it
I'm moving past the feeling
sometimes I can't believe it
I'm moving past the feeling again

//

so can you understand
that I want a daughter while I'm still young?
I want to hold her hand
and show her some beauty before this damage is done
but if it's too much to ask, if it's too much to ask
then send me a son

//

if I was scared, I would
and if I was pure, you know I would
and if I was yours, but I'm not
now I'm ready to start

//

now I'm ready to start
I would ... read more

the process had begun
a million came from one
the limits now were none

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from this moment on
blaring like a trumpet
coming from above us and below
the confidence of knowing
descending to relieve us of the struggle
to believe it's so

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the outreached hands had resigned themselves
to holding on to something that they never had

//

i was glad that it didn't destroy you
how sad that would be
cause if it destroyed you
it would destroy me

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when you fell in love, it was so sweet
so ... read more