Strategically planning in neckties and newsbriefs
Self-appointed slackers spend their first day in fatigues
Blue suits and brown skin shake hands and wear grins
Photo-op for cnn in repetition will sink in our psyche
Good vs. evil is the slogan we're selling
While secretly in

sometimes i wonder if i need stress to survive
i wonder if that's true
cuz i sure can't seem to get enough
and i wonder if death is really like life itself
is it death that i fear
or just the means of its approach
and i wonder if love will be like it is in all my dreams

her majesty her royal crown
kingdoms for her lost and found
head of gold magic breath
future holds me in suspense
two flowers in a field
one day one revealed
you are the sun to me
where i lean instinctively
venus and the crescent moon
wax above this tender blo

after the show i watched a show about earthquakes
predicting underground movement of the earth's plates
a tiny twig snaps then the branch breaks
the very same way the human heart aches
i sleep alone tonight up here in maine
but i've got a perfectly memorized view of your face

black boots
right angles
well that's all she remembers
standing in her sundress
naked underneath
tangled up in his fist
in twisted fantasies
black boots right angles
well that's all i remember
and a little red dress
up above the tavern
hold me up over

once i saw a crystal carousel
dancing on a wave i must
admit it was awhile ago i don't
remember everything everything
seems so different when you finally
reach that age it's not all you imagine
once you finally turn the page i wish i could
talk to you now and know you

i was lookin' for a fight that day
just let her say one word
but anger burns your guts away
what i need will not be heard
what i need will not be heard
who's afraid of a woman
learned to speak her mind
you stand on the other side of justice
vengeance is not blind<

you don't have to touch me when you talk to me
i can hear you fine
when you take a walk in my world
be a woman a black girl
maybe then, maybe then, maybe then
you can have a word to say, to say
my skin is brown without a tan
my will is strong without a man
i've un

funny how a moment can change a lot
one you're here the next you're not
and you never get no say
one of these days i'm going home
save your praise for the ones who mourn
count your blessings everyday
purple flowers and the moon
pass my way every june
some of us pa

i had a moon
you had an ocean
right at your back door
you could go anytime you wanted
and I could pull you in
find me
i'm outside your doorway
and I ain't goin' nowhere
I never learned my grammar
but God gave me song
and I can tell you love me
I want t

if i were a painter a painter of design i'd roll you in my flower base and drink you up like wine if i were a telescope looking over land high and low my gaze would go until i found your hand
if i were if i were
if i were a baker i'd bake a loaf of bread but all i need sustaining me is t

jagged cow who winces at his unrelease and pummeled back
jagged moon slips underfoot of the jagged cows uncertain hoof
jagged cow enslaved by all and whipped until the stars do fall
have no pity or remorse the jagged cow has set his course
will god in heaven look down upon this s

lately they been saying tomorrow ain't gonna come
lately i've been praying la da da da dum
i was reading on the bathroom wall
"tomorrow has been cancelled due to a lack of interest" everybody
listen kindly bend your ear you find out what's been missing when you lay down all your

little little one lookin for
your mama now where did
she go flower of a child
flower of the sun little little
one i see your footsteps i
hear you calling i see your
shadow i fear you falling i
see your name across the
sky...i heard she left you
all alone well

wild things run fast
the devil's on a joyride
forgiveness is my task
make the most of my time
i'm the polar night
that is never done
when the winter might
she lets no sun
i cannot hold a river
i cannot run a stream
take this message to my mother
i saw

I'm pullin' knots out of my head
strands of DNA
I am finding a name and all that
has remained within the recess of my brain
I'm tall as a whisper
a blowing seed
I need forgiveness and eyes that see
that I'm sandpaper underneath the layers
of this scaly shedding se

I came to the coast to try out my wings and fly
but I flap on the ground afraid to touch the sky
Born on a flat land over a flat lake
and I move in straight lines
Far from the river and further from home
stave off the darkness whither I roam
To be all the wiser and know w

sittin' on the south side by some greasy white guy
who says 'whattaya call that kind of hair?'
I call it mine you drunken swine
now shut your face and drink your beer
contents under pressure will explode
so be careful where your footsteps dare to go
my stomach's waging wa

i think his name was leonard
he been shot nine times
across from my front window
across the front lines
one more story one more boy on the back page
tracking all the numbers
of brothers killing brothers
and then charge by the grave
i come from the town
that su

under god's gray ceiling
warm thoughts of sun streaming
curling in your soft places
what an envious path light traces
my love my love
my love my love
slight movement of time passing
sun races moon everlasting
comets blaze in my chest
it's your face my joy refl