Lyrics-Eyeless In Gaza
<Answer Song & Dance>
Wildcat Fights
Uneasy in most everything
save for such a sweet moments silence
with no daggers hud in my eyes then
framed in blighted tenderness
my body suspects me then
I'm aware of everything, and everyone
I can't change anything then
I can't change a single note that's been played
not one phrase
and, that is when I forget
I rush and run and dive-bomb
and I don't want yr poisoning
I don't want my own poison
that is when I recollect
that the storm and the calm somehow connect
and that I choose all of this poison
and that I will choose it all again
the wildcat nights
a thousand trials
so many mixed emotions
so many flights I've known
so many fights
so many fights I've known
Shorepoem
Come along come alone
to run all these sands that you know
come along run alone by the watery flow
I love to see you
always
whatever you do
I love to see you
and all you love thru
the blighted misfortune would own you
and block you
and time would run as sand
dismissing you out of hand
the shore sands
come along come alone
to the roar of the tides ever new
come along come alone
run your changeless desire
I love to see you
imperfect actor and player
I love to see you
whatever you'd stage
come along come alone
to run all these sands you've known
come along run alone by the watery flow
I love to see you
carefree and windblown
I love to see you
sweet salt sea in wounds
the shore stands
First Blue Distance
Blasted and blunded to chaos
such sorry scenery
a tangle of irony
a web of alluring duplicity
waiting and beckoning
preying in the wings
damaging and incoherent
laughing in yr face then
and grief it seems to scar so
into blue distance
poising
ready yet again
fracturing eyeless unseeing
emptying hideously
riding an animal hatred
a deadweighted misery
deliberate
crushing cursing making you pretend
forcing such a numb and wasting path
for you to blithely tread
and, grief seems scar so
into blue distance
rubbing you
stealing you yet again
The Keep
Sleep she on the eastern side
holding a dream in tact.
Sleep he turned to the west
nurcing a cracked rib.
Spine to spine, night over
turn they and face, make good
in the bed 's trench, None break,
one keep in the bone crib.
Answer Song And Dance
where we were was...
taking our time...following pointers to what we felt like...
then, it was heady, like a first glass of wine, singing thru
our veins.
(I spy you free-falling, running impatient,
with fingers drumming...noising around...
and now yr looking for something new
to steal you once again.
a hand in the till, and its short change yr taking,
as you smile to yourself, as yr knees are quaking...
walking on water with sealegs shaking, looking around in vain.)
...we sway...we float, in a weaving manner...
a veiny transparency, so like a feather...
then, crashing back to the earth, charging hell
for leather in disarray.
Priest
Who will write love songs for you
when I am lowered at last
and your body is a little highway shrine
that all my priests have passed
my priests they will put flowers there
they will kneel before the glass
but they'll wear away your little window love
they will trample on the glass
the simple life of heroes
the twisted life of saints
they just confuse the sunny calendar
with their red and golden paint
and all of you have seen the dance
that God has kept from me
tho he has seen me watching you when all your minds
were free
Reedsong
The past is a place where you are so beautiful
in beautiful days you and I live in grace.
alive to the ways to attune to be beautiful.
where love is ablaze
I think of you there
I think of you so beautiful
and the reedsong.
and the May.
the present is a place where you are so beautiful
in beautiful days you and I
we will change
and turn unafraid
to attune
to be beautiful
where love's unafraid.
I think of you here
and the reedsong
and the May.
the future is a place where you are so beautiful
in these beautiful days
you and grace all the ways
the true love knot shall trace
to attune
to be beautiful
the future is a place where love is always
I think of you there
I think of you so beautiful
and the reedsong
and the May.
Staring
A light so low
driven like the snow upon the ground
empty now of tears
running down
turning to a sneer.
laugh aloud
the only thing to do is to laugh and loud
to give a voice to tears pushed to ground
cutting all that's dear.
yr forsaken
and you were taken in
oh to think of that with every yearning sound
yr forsaken
and you were taken and
yr light's forsaken low
burned almost down to ground.
burn too low and you will disappear
where will you go when you're not a friend to yrself?
oh never, ever do that.
To Cry Mercy
As I went out one summer's morn
I saw the day was mine
I saw it
it was not yours
and all yr ruin was my gain
and all my pleasure meant yr pain
again and again
and as I watched yr face becoming a mask
I felt the taste you craved.
hit me
strike me back
yr eyes were raw an stinging name
a stinging flame
a devouring gaze
unafraid
and now I want to cry mercy
mercy oh mercy
I savoured tastes that were not mine
I soured the sugar I sweetened the sharpest brine.
and now I'm waiting
thin as pain
with tired appetite
so great
and
so strange
and
so strange
and now I want to cry mercy.
Summer Salt
And are you listening
behind those veiling hands
splitting slicing redress
in all tatters frenzied pains
in streams of sour
yr bathing in unrest
summer salt
yet motionless
and yr crying too
and I've come seeking some sense of quiet beside you
in deep night weeping
in a smothered silent room
where you are sleeping
submissive as the tomb
light streaming in
before and beyond you.
Here, Friend of Mine
What is happening?
what plays in you
as it centres as it sighs?
(necessary signalling
conversation gasping for a lie
shaking and shivering
persuading in a process of denial)
friend of mine my idea was simple enough
real enough to pattern me
to fashion me to life.
so draw in all the breathing
the beginnings
the beautiful design
tho yr left with a longing
and denials that amplify inside.
ask what is happening?
what plays in you
that centres as it sighs?
what has happened here
where once you know exactly all of the rhymes
expressed and escaping here
so purposeful
now stranded
in a cry
friend of mine my idea was simple enough
friend of mine be real enough to live to this design
lost friend of mine
too physical
too material to find
Brilliant Blue
the shore stands
come along come alone
into blue distance
grief scars so
the 3D picture
you are so beautiful
I think of you here
empty now of tears
pushed to ground
one summer's morn
I saw the day
light streaming in
before and beyond you
draw in all the breathing
the beginnings the beautiful design
brilliant
blue
calling summer
the long winter thru.
Long Calling Summer
Calling summer the long winter thru
wishing somehow to get back into
yesterday's laughing point of view
it seems to have forgotten you
striking you out of tune
calling for summer long
winter shot to the centre of you
flagging at yr spirit
making you rue
binding yr words to stay that you
you call for a breath a space
free of this cutting taste
calling for summer long
and this day
is turning hard to
and this day
is cutting thru you
sriving hard to tear you in two
clear of the enchanted taste
far of summer's embrace
turning you winter-hard.
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