Mother of motion; the eyes can’t capture time;
Falling emotion; the blind now lead the blind;
We commit indiscretions and omit our sins from sight;
In a world of intangibles too many things seem right.
No hand to scribe the sinking sickness I have seen;
No face to judge until you’ve been the monster I have been;
To hunger is noble where beauty is silent sleep;
My hunger is noble but my pain is driven deep.
Your cruelty and consequence cannot eliminate this relevance;
Your selfishness, your hatefulness cannot take away my immanence;
Your cruelty and consequence cannot eliminate this relevance;
Your selfishness, your hatefulness cannot take away my innocence from me.
Mother of motion; the eyes can’t capture time;
Falling emotion; the blind now lead the blind;
To hunger is noble where beauty is silent sleep;
My hunger is noble but my pain is driven deep.
Leave me alone- I’m a freak
Leave me alone- make it easy for yourself
Everywhere I go they all stare
I don’t understand why they care
They stare at me in all black
And when I turn they stare at my back
All these things can’t,
All these things don’t–
Let me go.
Leave me alone- I’m a freak
Leave me alone- make it easy for yourself
Everywhere I go they all stare
I don’t understand why they care
And I don’t want to be a part of your world
And I don’t want to see the things you see
Can’t you understand how I feel?
Can’t you let me be?
Please, leave me alone
Please, leave me alone
Please, leave me alone
Please, leave me alone
You’re lying awake
The room is different
The walls dissolve
Replaced by sky
Horizon blackening
Twilight beckoning
As the clouds are stretching wide
Stars still shining
Little holes
That light is clawing to get through
But hope is shifting
With the shadows
That are drifting on the ceiling as you move
(Shh… just close your eyes and go to sleep
There’s nothing to be afraid of..)
Are you awake?
Sour thoughts are dancing now
All around your head
Shoulders shake, chattering teeth
The cold wind rips the covers from your bed
The apparition
The eyes are digging
Heart is pounding
Eyelids will not close
Your voice is failing
The screams derailing
And she stands so near to you
And nothing is sweeter
Than the songs you’re seeing
Begging for the colder hand she hides
Floating
Flowing
Her soul is hunting
Glimmer
Shimmer
White lights breaking
And fluid cries
She is reaching
Screeching
Imploring
Seething
And the haunting
Hurting
Spilling
No one knows
A kiss-like smile that leaves you beguiled
Fading darkness and the whispers of a ghost
(Ka):
God is silent, only eyes from where I stand
Sunday’s eclipse the monumental scale of man
Life leaves us parentless in a world I do not love
There’s no causality for what I’m thinking of…
(Guardian Angel):
And I am the face you see within the mirror
And I am the hand that holds the fist away
And I am the dream forgotten in the morning
And I am… I am…
(Ba):
We are the faith of your tomorrows
Let us breathe, let us see, let us be…
We are your prayers engulfed in sorrow
Let us breathe, let us see, let us be… let us be…
(Akh):
Oh God I only need to see
To share this light
To make this hope
To make it me…
(Ka):
Life may leave us stretched across the soul we buried
Sunday moving slower when the loneliness sets in
And if our children die before we reach our own demise
Then life is blacker still, blacker than the blackest fire
(Guardian Angel):
And I am the face you see within the mirror
And I am the hand that holds the fist away
And I am the dream forgotten in the morning
And I am… I am…
(Ba):
We are the faith of your tomorrows
Let us breathe, let us see, let us be
We are your prayers engulfed in sorrow
Let us breathe, let us see, let us be… let us be…
(Akh):
Oh God I only need to see
To share this light
To make this hope
To make it me…
(All):
Let us breathe, let us see, let us be… let us be…
This beautiful saint is bleeding, fall poi-
Son words as arrows fly, while distant
Thoughts intrude like poetry, some
Apprehension… and some regret.
Why can’t it be like it used to be?
Why can’t it be like it was?
Here I am thinking about you- whenever
I close my eyes I’m dreaming of you.
And if I have to live my life without
You forever, I can close my eyes and
Dream of you
Life can be so cruel- take away these
Regrets
A shiny insect, just a plaything? have
You ever heard the butterfly cry?
Would you sacrifice beauty for the
Adreneline? and would he hate you if he
Died?
Why can’t it be like it used to be?
Why can’t it be like it was?
Here I am thinking about you- whenever
I close my eyes I’m dreaming of you
And if I have to live my life without
You forever, I can close my eyes and
Dream of you
I am the Angel
You are the hands that grab me
I am forgotten
And you are alone
Justification-
Perfect stimulation
Make me a treasure…
Make me a gun.
I am the mountain
That watches the valley
Pretending the answer
Lies under my thumb
I am your secret
That makes you feel stronger
That makes you act colder
When I’m around
I am the Angel
You are the hatred
That has sipped my blood
And broken my wing
I am forgotten
But you are forgiven
Still I long for the sleep
That never comes to me
I am empty…
I am cold…
I am cold…
I don’t understand what’s going on…
I’m not asking for favors
Not tonight
I look up in the sky
All the rockets fall down (fall down)
Too many promises
Too many words
Too many faces for me to know
Sometimes I sit among the markers
And contemplate my next life
Says something less sympathetic-
“A little more unconditional respect was buried here”
“But it never lived
And it never died
It never came from them
It was always inside.”
I don’t care if time just passes us by
I can stand the change
But not the cruelty
Too many promises
Too many lies
Too many faces for me to know
Sometimes I sit among the markers
And contemplate my next life
Says something less sympathetic-
“A little more unconditional respect was buried here”
“But it never lived
And it never died
It never came from them
It was always inside.”
(Rise Akhetaten)
I made the monument by his hand
A drifting sun in a foreign land
Aten-ra, ankh-is-ra
Is-ra, is-ra, israel
Angel of the One
His face has been denied
From all inscriptions
But not from the sky
Aten-ra, ankh-is-ra
Is-ra, is-ra, israel
Who is God?
His name defies belief
For no One less wrought in Heresy?
Aten-ra, ankh-is-ra
Is-ra, is-ra, israel
Aten-ra, ankh-is-ra
Is-ra, is ra israel?
Aten-ra, ankh-is-ra
Is-ra, is ra Israel?
Shades of feelings my heart denies
Bathing in shadows hidden in the eyes of lies
My glowing future now these embers burn
Uncanny restlessness- but ask me what I’ve learned…
Prey insect visions swarm about my head
Each haunted thought, and each prying wedge
Slice ripping pieces and shredding pages of life
If this is real- well it feels like hell!
Gods and angels and devils smile
Stare into our crying eyes
Fire in anger and hate beguile
But look into your heart tonight
Gods and angels and devils smile
Stare into our crying eyes
Fire in anger and hate beguile
But look into your heart tonight
Gods and angels and devils smile
Look into our crying eyes
Fire in anger and hate beguile
Stare into your heart tonight
Your eyes
They often lie
And leave me feeling
Misunderstood
Our tragedy
Plays out like a symphony
A breath and a whisper
Are your clues
Inside we shake
Because we’re afraid
But we’re certainly not afraid of you
These dreams instead
Who live like a blanket
Has smothered me but still left me warm
I don’t need sympathy
Or your apologies
Why don’t you understand?
The face you see
Well it belongs to me
And I’m doing the best I can…
Just to make you smile
Just to make you smile
Again…
Faith, we’re acting on courage alone
What will they do
When that’s all through?
Dance in the dark
Sleeve pinned with a heart
Just to let you know
That we’re in pain
I don’t want sympathy
Or your apologies
Why don’t you understand?
The face you see
Well it belongs to me
And I’m doing the best I can…
Just to make you smile
Just to make you smile
Again…
Every now and then you have to see
That the wall we’ve built has landed on me
Every now and then why don’t we pretend
That things will come together in the end
Every now and then just open your eyes
Does every part of everything have to be right
Every now and then- so that after a while
I might get through and make you smile
I find you, lying fetal, kness pulled beneath
Your chin, alluring bite sings empty promises,
The entropy has pulled you in, your heart
Pounds, your breathing is labored, foolish
Things we do for fun, the world outside caving
Inward, now what have you done? what have
You done?
No life, No love, No dreams, No reason to remain,
No eyes, No vision, No pain, No, No Nothing, No
Mind, No thought, No sex, No awe to feel, No
Heart, No Nothing, No, No, No Nothing
Fingers numb, a hand is reaching, asking, begging
For a friend, your mouth is dry sting cotton frothing,
Spiral staircase towards the end, chest heaves and
You stop breathing, numeric punch keys 911, bad
Chemistry, organic weakness, now what have you
Done? what have you done?
No life, No love, No dreams, No reason to remain,
No eyes, No vision, No pain, No, No Nothing, No
Mind, No thought, No sex, No awe to feel, No
Heart, No Nothing, No, No, No, No Nothing
Sorrow sings
Her kisses in silence
And adjusts the blinds to keep the light
From mocking everything I feel
She dances slowly
A silhouette upon the curtains
But her eyes seem to cry
Only empty tears
I beg for comfort with inadequate verse
It meant so much to me… and so little to her
And I am sinking into a mountain of self pity
Why can’t I simply disregard all the things I feel?
“Where is my angel,”
“Where is my angel,”
“Where is my angel, when I need him most?”
“Where is my angel,”
“Where is my angel,”
“Where is my angel, tell me now where did he go?”
I never wrote you a love song
Somehow words could not express what I needed to say
And so I never wrote you a love song
And now it’s much, much too late ’cause you’ve gone away
But I will build this monument
To remember all the love we once had
And I’ll close my eyes and make it how it used to be
I swear I never stopped loving you with everything I am
And it hurts so much to think you stopped loving me
You stopped loving me
So I wish that I’d had written you a love song
And somehow you understood what it feels to be me
Because the Angel loves the spirit forever
And does it unconditionally
But I will build this monument
To remember all the love we once had
And I’ll close my eyes and make it how it used to be
I swear I never stopped loving you with everything I am
And it hurts so much to think you stopped loving me
You stopped loving me
I met a lady in the meads
Full beautiful — a faery’s child;
Her hair was long, her foot was light,
And her eyes were wild.
I made a garland for her head,
And bracelets too, and fragrant zone;
She look’d at me as she did love,
And made sweet moan.
I set her on my pacing steed,
And nothing else saw all day long;
For sideways would she lean, and sing
A faery’s song.
She found me roots of relish sweet,
And honey wild, and manna dew;
And sure in language strange she said,
‘I love thee true.’
She took me to her elfin grot,
And there she wept and sighed full sore,
And there I shut her wild wild eyes
With kisses four.
And there she lulled me asleep,
And there I dream’d — ah! woe betide! —
The latest dream I ever dreamt
On the cold hill side.
I saw pale kings, and princes too,
Pale warriors, death-pale were they all;
They cried — ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci
Hath thee in thrall!’
I saw their starved lips in the gloam
With horrid warning gaped wide,
And I awoke, and found me here
On the cold hill side.
And this is why I sojourn here,
Alone and palely loitering;
Though the sedge is wither’d from the lake,
And no birds sing.