FACE LIGHT
Move on (to better things)
I think I’m ready to testify
I keep reaching for the sky
Sometimes my head is stuck in the clouds
Sometimes I just can’t catch my breath
Sometimes I feel I’m going deaf
Because the silence is so loud
No one is here
Everyone has left
And moved on to better things
While I keep searching for my groove…
Disappeared without a trace
Disoriented deep in space
Dreading the final frontier
Stiff behavior like a droid
Suffocating in the void
Can’t escape from my sphere
But no one is here
Everyone has left
And moved on to better things
While I keep searching for my groove…
(scat)
no one is here
Everyone has left
And moved on to better things
While I keep searching for my groove…
(scat)
go out and take a hold
get tough get bold
you’re getting soft
get ready for the takeoff
in your cellar
with lofty dreams
exhibiting sloth
got to move on to better things
papa please write me a sermon
i’m just a relayer of a message
started back in ancient times with riddles and rhymes
can’t you tell that i learned it well?
to meet with destiny is divine
- papa please write me a sermon every Sunday
oh yes i will son
lord knows i can’t preach to everyone
-papa please write me a sermon every Sunday
i won’t let the seed fall on the rocks dad
you words won’t fall on deaf ears
and i want to get to heaven
but i was born in hell right from the start
you and i have seen the darkest of places
some together, but mostly apart
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I almsot hurt you more than mom did
no one loves you like i do
but i don’t know if you are broken
please God tell me it’s not true
and i’m trying to be humble
but i fear I wasn’t made that way
i need you to profess
i do confess… i want the test… I want the test…
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Midwest Folk
When you’re on the odyssey do you miss your family?
Distracted by fake characters, like cartoons on TV
Daily push your propaganda to oblivious birds
Graffiti on the billboard sign Satan’s dying words
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Wanna take a trip to the west coast
with my friends out east
Midwest folk I love em the most
Dogmatic Eskimos are few & far between
Grappling with malamutes & huskies is routine
Go on strap on snowshoes trek across the tundra
Meet audacious Aussies in the land down under
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I’m alive while dreaming & sleeping while I’m awake
Wading through salty tears, wailing
Help me escape from the slaughter –lead me to freshwater
For heavens sake
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Stranger
I think about you when I close my eyes and dance
Footsteps are stretched out across the broad expanse
Inching closer my way, and I want to explode
Even if I could win your heart, I would break it down the road…
Dying just to see your face
But you’re a stranger
Trying to fill this empty space
Don’t be a stranger
terrified to see your world tangled up with mine
headed for heartbreak, it happens every time
such powerful passion I have to hide away
now tormented melodies are the only ones that I can play…
Dying just to see your face
Don’t be a stranger
Trying to fill this empty space
You’re still a stranger
Woke up this morning totally subdued
My heart was heavy, I called everyone but you
Damn, how can a delightful dream turn the whole day blue??
You belong to someone else, and I am not surprised
Sometimes when you look my way, I avert my eyes
Chivalry & courageousness or the absence thereof?
Only from a distance will I try to make you feel my love
Dying just to see your face
Don’t be a stranger
Trying to fill this empty space
You’re still a stranger
Christopher’s Sister
She runs away & the devil quickly gives chase
She tortures herself; lacerations all over her soul
I’m scared I won’t find you, but I bet I’ll be petrified when I do
Christopher’s Sister is deflowered
and I can’t take the pain
I can’t help but call your name
How do you love your Father & love the world at the same time?
Like an explosion of flavor, this exhilaration is counterfeit bliss
Aroused by her caress, fleeting embraces generate faults in my system
Christopher’s Sister is defiled
And my tears fall like rain
My God, was it all in vain?
Maybe she couldn’t control the craving
Failing to refrain
Tarnished souls in the devil’s domain
I cannot remain here living this lie
I cannot maintain no matter how hard I try
What I want to know; did my salvation pass me by?
I ran away, & the devil quickly gave chase
I tortured myself, lacerations all over my soul
I’m scared she won’t find You, but I’ll bet she’ll be glorified when You do
Christopher’s Sister is dishonored
but she can’t ascertain
Only God can cleanse her stain
We all long to be whole again
And free from this disease
I’m deep in prayer down on my knees
Can’t you hear me? Can’t you hear me callin’ your name?
Where are you? Please, please talk to me? Talk to me right now!
No ego, no self, no noise,
no words, no blackness. no nothing… nothing at all…
nothing can separate me from You…
Something Deadly
Strike up a deal take some action
Fulfill the plan make it happen
You know where you belong
You know what is going on
It’s your first loss & your last win
You are not ready
Bound here with chains to the memory
You’re messing with something deadly
Strike at the head of the dragon
Lucifer quickly gains traction
He comes to you in dreams
He can hear you moan & scream
Tears that produce satisfaction
You are not ready
Bound here with chains to the memory
You’re messing with something deadly
Faces altered by refraction
A faceless hangman’s distraction
They reject gifts God bestows
They volunteer for the gallows
I witness victim reaction
You are not ready
Bound here with chains to the memory
You’re messing with something deadly
Ambrosia
The trap snaps shut upon my neck with a ripe sobriety
One cold rock against my face as a meek man calms the sea
Gorgeous death awaits with grace; where I go you cannot come
Meet me on the other side where we will become one
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I don’t wanna die
Feast on the bread of life
Evil manifests in the kitchen
No small prayer before your last meal
Kiss of death is ambrosia on my tongue
Fill my dreams with lust and fear & hate to damn my soul
Who’s that in the shadows? (You don’t even want to know)
Light the pyre and I am martyred; please retrieve my bones
Relive old betrayals so the Lord can hear my groans
The Lord repays my loans
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The trap snaps shut and I am caught stealin fruit from the tree
One cold noose around my neck and the dark embraces me
See the serpent time temptation while my will is weak
Mark of the beast upon my head kiss of death upon my cheek
Kiss of death upon my cheek..
Kiss of death upon my cheek..
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Camouflage
Turning to face you I fulfill my duty
I open up and you look straight through me
Oh my Lord I pray you renew me
Erase the day I made my debut…
Like an old flame burns into me
Again… ‘Cause I held it too closely
There were days when her tears would soak me
But I let it cloak me
You can’t camouflage what’s true…
Life begins on a limb
What else have you got to be afraid of?
Let me die rising to my feet
Not falling into a fading future
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Claim defeat and drink it in
Hang up the line, call the fight
Accusations, actions taken
Try and fake them or awaken
And from this trip I’m never coming back
I’m just a sojourner on a slow journey to the truth
Facts & faith make a framework in the midst
Fate, creation & evolution coexist
Cooperate & facilitate, quietly assist
Create my own cell default to catalyst, or
Craft my own heaven & influence earth
Same story written on my face since birth
I face light with shadows behind me
Eyes wide as the brightness blinds me
Nowhere I can go where you won’t find me
Begging for change paid overdue…
Like a long lost love reminds me
Again… I should say thank you kindly
Ain’t it strange how events are timely?
I let it define me
You can’t camouflage what’s true
Withdraw in all the words misconstrued
Extreme sensations won’t be subdued
Hunger so intense hidden from view
Cannot conceal how I feel about you
Can’t camouflage what’s true
ONE WAY
One way
Ain’t too hard its like child’s play
And you don’t even have to pay
Not greedy got to feed the needy
And there’s nothing left to say cuz there’s only one way
Some days, you know you just got to get away
Mondays get mundane & lax trade Tuesday slacks
For Friday pants & fancy shoes
And dance the blues away
Sunday, go out to the country
Wade in the healin river, make you shiver
Wait up I’m goin straight up to shine on
Like the sun’s rays and there’s only one way
One-way… this sign you’ve got to know
One-way… you can’t go against the traffic flow
I used to rhyme “Get on the bus with us,” now I sing
“Let my people go” on the exodus,
out of the wilderness I hear the pilgrims say:
“One Way or BUST”
my ambition on collision course with the television
and the radio DJ is in a dubious position
the truth in newspapers tapers off
even though the front page says its all the rage
while the mainstream seats a regime with a supreme scheme
I mean to take it to the other extreme
Someday stylin on a tropical island
that’s where I’ll stay cuz the ticket’s one way
One-way… this sign you’ve got to know
One-way… you can’t go against the traffic flow
Some people follow their own two feet
Some wind up walkin the wrong way down a one-way street
Some ain’t got enough food to eat
Some starve for something much more sweet
When the traffic light turns green, its gonna be a
Wonderful scene on the freeway of life
Break the gridlock with the Solid Rock
Hit the cruise control & coast all the way…
Laura (What’s the deal?)
I know you wanna tell me what’s on your mind
You know I wanna help you to unwind
Don’t bury your secrets deep inside
Try, try to let them flow from your sweet lips to the sky
My love,
Do you say your prayers at night?
Do you fear that things won’t be alright?
Ooh babe when we’re together
All I can do is think about forever, and ever
Say something
Say something
Say something clever
Laura,
Give it to me straight, girl
Baby, be real
Break it down
What’s the deal?
You say you love to dance, but you never wanna dance with me
Well I like to get down, and I’m about to cut a rug indeed
Honey you know that I’m patient, but it’s not polite to keep a man waitin
Drivin me crazy every day, speak to me softly and don’t delay
Laura,
Give it to me straight, girl
Baby, be real
Break it down
What’s the deal?
Let’s go for a ride
Far, far away
I wish that’s where we were headed
Closer to you
Right now you wish I were embedded
Far, far away
All our dreams and aspirations
Evade us as we chase them
Some escape to distant nations
We follow
You are from the mainland – grew up near the state line
I live on the outskirts – hang out on the fault line
I am from the outside – I love you on the inside
You just hop in shotgun – let’s go for a ride
Far, far away
Somewhere the sun is rising
Hold on tonight
Full moon waning spirit fading
Ocean waves
Wash away my memories
Drown my past in the seas
Start fresh we are free
Follow me
You are from the mainland – grew up near the state line
I live on the outskirts – hang out on the fault line
I tried to walk on water – then became a real man
Used to drive the fast lane – now I jam the slow hand
We used to meander – tried to ride the green line
Flirting with forever – now we move in real time
I am from the outside – I love you on the inside
You just hop in shotgun – let’s go for a ride
EQUATE
Eager
Eagle eyed
Early
Earnest
Earning
Earache
Ear splitting
Earth tone
Easel
East side
Easter Sunday
Easy listening
Eavesdropping
Eatery
Ebullition
Eccentric
Ecclesiology
Echelon
Eclectic
Eclipse
Eclogue
Edify
Edison
Editorial
Education
Effusion
Egalitarian
Egg foo yung
Einstein
Elapse
Elasticity
Elation
Electrify
Elementary
Elephant
Elevate
Elite
Elucidate
Elude
Eluvium
Elysian
Equilibrium
Equate…
Equate…
