1. |
The Featherheart
04:04
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Watch this man
A man who was in search
For the easy way out
And stumbled across the easy way in
Turned across a deft knuckle like a coin
To land heads up
Just as called
And win it all
Rolled from between the rock and the hard place
Safely between the training wheels
Already seen the pitch curving to home base
The light was green but he decided to steal
In slow motion crashes he lands
Into the luxury recliner
From out the frying pan
And into the sun and sand
He gently dozes toward the bend
Accompanied by the ghost of pride
He walks the beach toward no end
So long as the sea is at his side
See this man who sought shelter in sand castles
Watch him find wisdom in matchbooks
In shades of bland he lives in quiet pastels
His character: a collection of last looks
Feather heart beneath his weightless breast
He learned to chart the identity of man
Watch him mark it correctly on the test
He had written it on his hand
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2. |
Blood Lust
04:16
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Naive, we came knocking at the gates
Entering new love with skipping steps
We skipped a step
And lost our footing
Time pressed on and memory fed hope
Forbearance gave way and passion grew claws
Marshal our ensigns, report to shared borders
We must keep separate each one from the other
If there is a breach, more blood will be spilled
Now we've a taste for it, we can't stop 'til we've killed
Once you were kind and I was well meaning
A poet, a pragmatist building love with four hands
Now words are arrows
And our aim is honed
Our bed is our pyre, a sacrifice to itself
Our better selves cry out, kindling on the fire
Marshal our ensigns, report to shared borders
We must keep separate each one from the other
If there is a breach, more blood will be spilled
Now you've a taste for it, can't stop 'til you've killed
Tempting with tears and baiting with jeers
Foreplay forewarning the battles to come
Reckless strikes
Leave frailties revealed
Violent visionaries abandon precision
Ravaging flesh that scars, but can never heal
Marshal our ensigns, report to shared borders
We must keep separate each one from the other
If there is a breach, more blood will be spilled
Now I've a taste for it, can't stop 'til I've killed
Can't stop 'til I've killed
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3. |
Till the Sky
04:32
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Whitewashing dawn breaks over windowsills
Beckoning all to labors undone
Toiling through time, she quiets a frantic voice
Murmuring dreams of beauty and rage
Bartering hope for trivial drudgery
Scorning small joys while others partake
Stagnant and cold, poisonous dormancy
Fashioning bars, she forges her cage
Whispers in the night, specters calling
Stars are shining bright, as they’re falling
Crashing at her heel, and she’s smiling
The Earth ceases to reel, as it’s dying
Till the sky, till the sky
Myopic child holds others accountable
Blaming the world for risks she won’t take
Distancing all, willfully desolate
Salting her wounds, she is her own prey
Reaping brambles from fields unsown, hoarding love from
Hearts unknown
Self damned to a half lived life, spiteful conceit
Breeding strife
Whispers in the night, specters calling
Stars are shining bright, as they’re falling
Crashing at her heel, and she’s smiling
The Earth ceases to reel, as it’s dying
Till the sky, till the sky
Whitewashing dawn breaks over windowsills
Beckoning all to labors undone
Toiling through time, she quiets a frantic voice
Murmuring dreams of beauty and rage
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4. |
Brink
05:50
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You say I'm your anchor
But to hold you I had to drown
Bearing waves that raise you up
Hold me firm, and force me down
For years I've rusted here
Your tether in stormy seas
But now the skies have cleared
And I've forgotten how to breathe
Forgotten how to breathe
I say I'm an island
And you are the crashing sea
You define me, you confine me
And from you I cannot flee
You erode my very being
With your ever-changing tide
My will is lost beneath you
I am your eternal bride
I'm past the brink, I'm in the drink
I'm looking up from the ocean floor
You have no rescue boat, I know I'll never float
We both know that I'm done for
I won't deny I've made my choice
And I affirm it every day
Convinced that for your joy
I must be the one to pay
You are not a villain
You are just too blind to see
The two of us went out at port
And one was lost at sea
I'm past the brink, I'm in the drink
I'm looking up from the ocean floor
You have no rescue boat, I know I'll never float
We both know that I'm done for
I'm past the brink, I'm in the drink
I'm looking up from the ocean floor
You have no rescue boat, I know I'll never float
We both know that I'm done for
I'm done for
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5. |
Resigned
06:16
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My perspective is getting bigger
And it's making everything look small
I see my future getting shorter
I see my shadow growing tall
In the distance there is an end
And it's making everything look bigger
I see every word I have penned
I see every scar on my figure
To meet my own expectations
I have struggled and pined
Endured failure, frustration
And in time, resigned
I've watched my wonder evaporate
To make room for certainty
I see the boundary that creates
I see it settling permanently
My ambitions get longer
But every day their end grows near
I see the strain on hope getting stronger
I see possibility disappear
To meet my own expectations
I have struggled and pined
Endured failure, frustration
And in time, resigned
The more I try to grasp
The less I am able to hold
The moment I understand my youth
I am grown old
I am grown old
I am grown old
I am grown old
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6. |
To Find Me
03:58
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Sailed our way ‘round Traitor’s Isthmus
Take her up to the Baltic Sea
Find the glow on the rocks of Old Tralee
Docks are quiet with the low tide
Pubs are pushing out their keys
Locals smile as the ghosts of my day follow me
I am searching, riding rainbows
To find me
Make my way north to my homeland
Follow paths that eyes can’t see
No one seems to notice when I leave
Knock on doors that once were open
Closed and covered, ivy leaves
Curtains drawn as the streetlights hit my feet
I am searching, riding rainbows, I am looking
To find me
Something rings out through my temples
Interrupting my sweet dreams
Reminds me that things are never what they seem
Hit the clock and turn off the lights
Back in bed where night keeps me
Wake me in the morning where
I’ll be
Searching, riding rainbows
Searching, riding rainbows
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7. |
Black on Black
03:52
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A shade of grey on a cloudy sky
The world of man to a forest pine
A drop of water in an endless sea
One of a million who’d rather not be
A little red paint in a river of blood
Four-lane highway to a flash flood
Cricket’s chirping over a whale song
One right choice in a pattern of wrong
An anthill under a stampede
Great advice when you don’t take heed
A few words of reverence for those who’ve earned it
Reflection on life for those who’ve spurned it
Abstract painting in a hotel room
One less bristle in your dustbroom
A speeding ticket when you’re on your way home
Everyday worries when you’re out on your own
Another paycheck to spend or save
Another flower on a very old grave
A hidden sadness if you don’t show it
A terminal disease if you don’t know it
An offer to stay when you’re leaving soon
A moonlight drive at twelve noon
One wrong note and you’re out of tune
Gun in mouth or needle and spoon
A burning secret you never confide
A paddle and land when you’re swept by the tide
A will and purpose when you’re along for the ride
Poetic justice for the other side
Abstract painting in a hotel room
One less bristle in your dustbroom
A speeding ticket when you’re on your way home
Everyday worries when you’re out on your own
Another paycheck to spend or save
Another flower on a very old grave
A hidden sadness if you don’t show it
A terminal disease if you don’t know it
An offer to stay when you’re leaving soon
A moonlight drive at twelve noon
One wrong note and you’re out of tune
Gun in mouth or needle and spoon
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8. |
End of the World
03:33
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A final kiss, a last goodbye
He turns his head and starts to cry
For him, it's the end of the world
There's no more reason in his life
He tries to speak and don't know why
He can't, it's the end of the world
The sky is filling up with black
The cleansing rain not coming back
You know, it's the end of the world
The trees are falling down today
And leaving us the only way they can
It's the end of the world
On this planet we are renting
Sorry but I feel like venting
I can't sit and watch this thing just end
Up in the clouds a lonely teardrop
Falls upon neglected rooftops
I think that he knows, won't try this again
Now all the love this world could show
Is under several feet of snow
That's why, it's the end of the world
I won't give up, I'm not like that
There's always hope, I'm like a cat
Drop me and I'll land right on my feet
With every day as we waste time
Contemplating nursery rhymes
We're fooling ourselves, as history repeats
Our future gone, we heard it fall
It's fallen off the apple wall
For some, it's the end of the world
Now God is dead and heaven's gone
He gave it up and he's moved on
I guess, it's the end of the world
It's the end of the world
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9. |
Lakeshore Grey
04:46
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I think that I am, I think that I am
I'm running the race, I'm red in the face
I'm trying really hard, I'll get second place
I've come really far, I'm not a disgrace, not a disgrace
But I think that I am
I think that I am
It seems really close, it seems really close
I keep reaching out, for what I care about
I'm trying really hard, but I still have my doubts
I've come really far, to choose the easy route, the easy route
It seems really close
It seems really close
I know I can't do it, I know I can't do it
There's something in the way, in a shade of lakeshore grey
I'm trying really hard, paid all I can pay
I've come really far, just so I can say
So I can say, I know I can't do it
I know I can't do it
The end is very close, the end is very close
I saw it at the beginning, and then it all started spinning
I've tried really hard, but I'm still not winning
I've come really far, but I'm still at the beginning, at the beginning
And the end is very close
It's very close
I'll give it one more shot, I'll give it one more shot
I think I deserve that much, and I would have it as such
I'm trying really hard, almost enough to touch
I've come really far, I left behind my crutch, I left it behind
I'll give it one more shot
One more shot
I think that I am, I think that I am
I ran the whole race, I'm red in the face
I tried really hard, but I still didn't place
I came really far, so I'm not a disgrace, not a disgrace
But I think that I am
I think that I am
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10. |
Wake
03:41
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Moira caught in course of waking
Between dream and the day
Neither had the claim of staking
Neither held a greater sway
Dim and dazed and yet so vivid
Light and songbirds breaking through
Interpose the nymph and naiad
Interpose the dusky hue
Straddling planes without discernment
Bridging gaps and binding all
Holding to a brilliant moment
Reality within her thrall
The moment slips and couplings falter
Visions consumed by blazing dawn
Aurora proves the fancy's master
The wisps of night so soon move on
Sweet child I love, please let it pass
For dreams are brief and are not meant to last
Should you lose yourself within the gates
You'll find that only madness waits
Wake
Morpheus does claim us nightly
To wander his capricious land
But at day breaking brightly
We heed Apollo's fresh command
Twin worlds kiss their morning greetings
First light and gloam, their common ground
This must be their only meeting
Lest all creation be unbound
You must let them move on
My turtle dove, my little swan
For where they lead you must not go
So part your lids and meet day's glow
You need not even say goodbye
For they will wait 'til lullaby
Wake Moira wake
Wake Moira wake
Wake
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11. |
The Proof
03:53
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Glancing with a mask of innocence
Green-gold eyes peddling lies
Forcing forth a deception, protruding into perception
Altering minds with truth redefined
Deceivers believe and make themselves our truth
Believers deceive and make themselves the proof
Every word
Every look
Every touch
Is riddled with dishonesty
Nowhere to run
Nowhere to hide
Nowhere to find
The truth inside the lies
Deceivers believe and make themselves our truth
Believers deceive and make themselves the proof
Shadows cast on walls of stone
Are all some minds shall seek to know
But greater truths the world bestows
If we but use our flesh on bones
Break the dams down
And let the floods give way
See what holds its ground
And see what flows away
Every stone
Every tree
Everyone
Holds truth if you but choose to see
There’s no need to run
There’s no need to hide
Someday you’ll find
The truth of your own lies
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Daybloom Albany, New York
After preparing a massive arsenal of puns in preparation for a ten year tour of stand-up punning in pun-friendly venues worldwide, Daybloom packed a van and set out, only to get a flat tire in the driveway. Plans dashed and bored, they started playing music. ... more
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