Alive

It's said hands never quite connect
And touch is a sense
of effects from electrostatic illusion
But I choose to deny
And build a castle of sand
Upon my grand new humanistic delusion
where I pretend
In rarest moments
the atoms in our skin
form an epicenter

Floating over the cars
Scraping the stars of a violet sky
From the depths of the dark
they'll view us from farther than what it takes
to bend
the light from where we stand
and blur our heads
Lost dancing into a blend

Open your eyes
and bring this town to life
mesmerize
reflecting the rings of fire
And all things begin to slow
We start to slip
Into places where all things grow

Close your eyes
Kiss me just once tonight
Beneath bronze lights
In a slihouette of us
And a silence fills the air
The band strikes their chords
To music I wouldn't hear

I know that I could forget
But I've not felt as alive

there's an inclination
slowly growing stronger
as the nights get longer
and the mind starts to wander
you wear the darkness
like an old, warm sweater
And within the black
there's a vision of color
uncovered

Close your eyes
With a solemn goodnight
No one will cry
Shake the hand of time
Get ready to fly

I feel the inclination
the walk on metal
down the tunnel
of a .28 caliber
I lie here thinking
Lost in maps and figures
tracing the ceiling
As I feel you pull the trigger

Ghosts (In 5/4)

Her heart stops
On the mountain tops
From where she stands
She starts to pretend
I fit in the palm of her hands

Her eyes close
For music notes
And sandy toes
And wise-cracking ghosts
Crayon-writes the poems
of a world all her own

Every word she speaks
Steals every scene
In every dream

I like to think
the wavy sea
aspires to her
and the twirl in her hair
The blue of her eyes
and the curl of her smile

She'll never know
the nature still growing
in seeds that she plants
from the fields upon
the ground where she danced

I want to believe
I can feel her breathe
Tucked up my sleeve

Well, it seems you've fucked yourself again
With a sad new tale about the life that won't begin
Tossin' round and round inside your bed with a gun stuck in your hand
Waitin' for the end

Well, is there civil war down at your feet?
Half-in the ground, stabbed in the back by tragedy
Guess it's pretty hard to break the mold if you get too old to be bold
Your word's been told
Your soul's been sold

You know you're never wrong if you don't ever choose at all
So enjoy your fall

Life gets harder and
you can't stop it
just like your father
and the reaper's comin'
 he's countin' up the ghosts chained to the ground by your regrets
did you forget?
You wasted death

Can't make amends with time if you don't ever live to try
You just wonder why
Just wonder why

Ain't no sympathy!
Walkin' up and down these streets
People gettin' by, People gettin' high
Some people live, some people die
Just passin' time!

Life gets harder
and you can't stop it
Just like your father
you just keep talkin'
and talkin' up the state of what the world was to become
Talkin' with your gun

Can't hope to change the world if you're too proud to change yourself
So I wish you well
How can the devil be so bad if you already live in hell?
I wish you well

 

Every child
has reason to fly
With hero smiles
And firefly eyes
They make believe
their wildest dreams

every leaf
Is an ocean of green
Drawn from the sky
Sunlight hides
And is redefined
Into the wild

Every mind
Can create life
Each cloudy sky
Is a canvas of white
Without lines
For us to find
And misplace time

When you think of me
There's a song you sing
Your heart and mind beat
In symmetry
Keep these things
Where all things grow
And I'll stay close