Easy Ease In

Oh, won't you please forgive me
If I mistake your comfort for affection?
So I'll ease back, ease back
Step off for a while
Let you come to me
If you ever do

Lend me your overdose
In the form of a burgundy rose
Lend me your overdose
So I can drown in your sympathy

What is this?

Oh girl, you're the coolest
Even when your love is ruthless
If I stare into your eyes
I don't see exactly what's behind them

If I catch your glimpse, I'll look away
Trying to defend your God given birthright
To stand there without pulling all that attention
Tripping up their hearts, kick 'em while they're down

Behind those doe eyes lies what you call awkward
Leaning against the bar, playing with your hands
Crossing your legs, and preparing your lips for pucker
But in the end, who will be your knight, your own silly motherfucker?

Okay

It looks like you're a
little bit worse for wear
Just rough around the edges
As if you would even care

You're a poster on the wall
Pinned up for the world to see
Dust hanging off of your eyes
Watching from empathy

But it's okay
Even if the ride's rough
There's nothing to discuss

It's okay
You still can't define love
Or bottle up your passion

It's okay, okay?

Homesick where your heart is
So thirsty for a tuned out town
Feeling orange complications
Swallowing what used to be a frown

But it's okay.

Maybe

She's so fair, so yes and no
Take a guess, so maybe so

She's straight forward
Right on target
With nothing in between

A calorie counting
World perspective
From the extreme

Would you believe me?
Look, your seams will leave
With no thanks to me

My voice might be off-key
And your lips still land locked
But I will do whatever I can
To keep your jaw dropped

So maybe so.

Exhale

She's so good in a pair of heels, a maneuver unpredictable,
she feels the floor in her heart through the vents,
circumstance is her name tonight.

A touch here, a listen there
Where is her conscience tonight?
Lost in the street, drowning in the thought of my last name.

That's all she wanted, all she ever needed at this moment in time,
Before it blew off with her covers.

Cover charge, bed time, closing time
Don't lie, just lie with me.
For the time being, who is this you're seeing?
A different person, a new perspective.
How do you like it?

It's a male you can't exhale, for once.
It's calling out your name. And you love it,
Oh you love it, yeah you love it
Don't deny it, do or die it,
You're so enthralled dancing in your ballgown,
going down in the history of your paper towns.

The final straw that broke your back was just me breaking you in.
You can't turn it back now, listening to tracks now, back down.

So I'll be calling you, if I get the chance,
If you believe in old fashioned romance.

Come with me tonight. Just come with me tonight.

Right There

I just spent another wish on you
Hoping that someday you'd come through
That'd we'd be happy together
In a world that was built for two

I should've realized and stopped time
Once I thought that you were mine
But we were never gonna get better
I'm still waiting at the back of the line

When I'm with you, you run my life
When I'm with you, I'm caramelized

And I can't believe

That I'm not with you

The Parade of Concrete Giants

There's something calling you, pulling you to some sort of bittersweet swing town. You can feel it in the sweat pouring out of the traffic and the leaves brushing against your hand. I'm sorry your eyes are finally peeking out and gliding along the burnt out lights and their fallen brothers, a cymbal against broken virtue. This is a chance to discuss and extend your words into strings of nonsense and create definition out of your cardboard fragments. Hot glue and scissors and tape are your weapons, a utensil of your tongue. You're keeping yourself and everyone up way beyond their bedtime. Sorry but not sorry about the swollen lips you've left behind in your wake. Home is so far back, lost in the black and white bricks that make up that once bright fork in the road. This is what you don't know. This is what you find out once the mystery and the quiet has faded into something more than that. Help is another illusion that you've created for yourself, support defined by its very ectoplasm. The walls will come crashing down and you will be forced to decide for yourself. All for one moment, once and for all.

Yesterday I Don't Believe

All I remember
Are your grimy fingers
Gripping the fretboard
Telling me you were bored
With what was going on.

Those days were tender
As if I wondered
I was another door
My hinges ripped and torn
Well, what was going on?

I didn't know what I saw behind your eyes
What kind of hint of lilac you hid behind
Stone faced, dresses laced
This was the beginning of the end

I don't believe what you told me yesterday
I don't believe what you told me yesterday
When the streetlights fell damp on your skin
And my body filled the empty spaces
You were my breath and soul
Yesterday

Your howls, well fend for
Yourself. For once, can your
Mouth save the war
More scratches on the floor
What the hell is going on?
I don't believe
I don't believe
I don't believe
I don't believe

What you have to say
What you told me yesterday

Insensitive

Another day wasted
And I can't take it
And I hate it

What do you want me say?
What do you want me to rattle off?
All of these empty words add up to some brittle sentence
not worthy of the language I forged it from

Is that what you want?
Breathless gasps from the other end of the line?
Noise from the my throat of language trying to escape?
A haunting desire to keep the clothes on

What am I supposed to feel?
I am the shoelace around the powerline
Holding on to whatever weather slips through
Someday I will tear. I will tear

Thank you.

Tugboats pulling my heart by its strings into the harbor of heartbreak
As the waves crash through the intersection

Insensitive.
Guarded.
No.
Just ignorant.

Blinded by the experience of freedom.
Birthright.

Another day wasted.
And I hate it.

One Day

Did he ever think that he would be famous one day,
Backtracking his way through his breakneck of the woods?
He had everything attached to his name like a knapsack
His worth clung to what he knew on the spelling test

But the results were positive
Sure as the water in the Ohio River
His friends, never hit or miss
Sure as the lager in his father's liver

Copy and paste, no time to waste
Years paved into the gray sidewalk
Holding him back, mouths open
A chip off of the old road block

Never saw it coming
He never saw it
Never saw it coming
He never saw it

In the Shade

You look so cute
With the sun hanging in your eyes
So blonde and blue
From when you had to say goodbye

The grass is green
On the other side of the argument
My lock, your key
Holding on by a glowing filament

And I
Will hold
Your hand
Despite whatever weather is thrown at us

And we'll
grow old
Again
Just like the dreaded leather dreams of lust

And we'll stand in the shade today

Particular

She had soul. I don't think anyone ever doubted that.

This girl had a knack for keeping the gears spinning even when the motor was dead. She kept the bodies propped up, even if she had to do it herself. Cups tessellated over the carpet. It never started out white; it was always that coffee stained color. That color was always complimented by the neon glowing bracelets and twenty dollar knock-off disco lights. Complimented might not have been the the right word.

I was on life-support and she was the life of the party.

Over and Out

Turning off the radio
To hear your voice coming through
A little bit of skipping, but
It's loud and clear in the four one two

Local call, so loco so
Extra, extra, read all about you,
Your garments signalling lust
It's loud and clear, but I don't have you

Feel the static crawling through my nerves
You're another device that I'll never unlearn
I'm over and out

Over and out
Over and out
Over and out yet again

Space Cowboy Lawyer

Don't wanna be a space cowboy lawyer anytime soon
Don't wanna have to get all dressed up just go to the moon
I'd like to just sit around
and read my New York Times
And simply daydream about being that guy

Don't wanna be a space cowboy lawyer
Have to keep up to spec with my new space voyager
I've got my own saddle,
and it doesn't use any carbon fuels
Anyone who would change themselves is becoming their own fool

I remember when I could go outside
and not have to hide my face
When the stars shined oh so bright,
but now they're serving five to eight

Is it my fault for leaving them behind,
wanting me to come back home?
I thought I'd return before I knew it,
instead they're leaving me alone

Backdraft

"A penny buys a box of matches. One penny and you can set the world on fire"
- Fugard; Tsotsi

There we stood among the exhaust
of a thousand broke down cars
Waiting for a chance we thought we lost

There the fire burnt around us
Never thought we'd get this far
In the home of the free of their thought

My eyes were still full of the dust
Taken from your shooting star
A sight for sore forgiveness now

We're so slow among the crowd's rush
Not too far from where we are
A light off of the reluctant bow

Fire
The fire's burning deep inside us,
Reaching for our throats
When we think we're down and out
Preaching all our hope

Tonight we're burning up in the fire
In the fire, our hearts are the last to go

Does anyone else feel like this? Sorry, that was a stupid question.

They told me, but I didn't listen
I pursued in spite of the advice
I'm in no troubling situation
Just shot dead on the corner of last night

I'm your prince, I'm your marionette
Circling below your playful head
Certain circles should not be broken
Is it too late to go back to bed?

Come on, don't break me faster
I'm here until the morning after
Time flies so let's make it last more
Holding hands in the back of the theatre

Those times were good, but I can't live there
Heartstrings ripping everywhere
Sephia day dreams of when
we were beautiful

Making contact with the best and brightest
Never knew what we had inside us
Potential...
Is that all that it'll ever be?

Follow Through

I'll just shake my head
As you say that you want him
Because there's nothing there that people see in him

He's a hollow case, a waste of empty space
And a future is a far-fetched dream for him

I'll cringe here instead
As you say that you want him
His hands hold nothing, just promises paper thin

There's a basket case, the first to lose the race
The future is a far-fetch dream for me

Where's your hero now?
Where's your hero now?
He's off killing you inside, and fucking with your mind.

I can't thank you for being here
When all you did was tell him on your phone
I feel so far away when you're near
When I'm with you, I never feel more alone

Where's your hero now?
Where's your hero now?

Sally

The simple answer is that
There's no way
She'd give me the time of day
But it's okay,
Because I'll try to find a way
To get her to love me

I love the chase
But is that all it means to me?
Another broken day
That my heart plays like a timpani
When I think she loves me

Her name is Sally, not ally
The keepsake of your goodbyes
But are you really just the waiting kind?

When you look down at my worn shoes
Do you see dedication or a ratty tattoo?
When you listen to my young voice
Do you hear the infliction lost on old boys?

Her name is Sally, not ally
The keepsake of your goodbyes
But are you really just the waiting kind?

I'm just a little boy, house broken and brokenhearted
Waiting to see if we can go back to where we started

If you need me on twenty-third
Just call me up and say the word
Because I just can't keep myself
Away from you

Yellow Nights

Look at you, you look so fine
But do you know any other way
To keep me occupied?

You're an negligent angel in neglige
With chalk outlines around your wings
Did it hurt when you fell from heaven?
Because it sure as hell nearly killed me

Look at you, you look so fine
But do you know any other way
To keep me occupied?

You turned my invertebrate heart
Into a stainless steel blood factory
Extramarital affairs worth meddling
What happened to your limits after eighteen?

I was caught in the headlights
Couldn't speak, couldn't breathe
When you threw your words at me

I was lost in the blue nights
Couldn't speak, couldn't see
When your eyes hooked on me

Look at you, you look so fine
But do you know any other way
To keep me occupied?

Teal/Orange/Red/Gray/Violet

Here's a girl I would've fallen for

Had she said my name, I'd be at her door
in a flash, but alas
I would've fallen apart

I don't know who she is or what she's fighting for
With her fox-like eyes and her laughing on the floor
She's relaxed but I'll ask
Can you handle your heart?

She's a little detrimental to her boyfriend's health
That is if she has one, has she even felt
What it means to be in love
If she falls in line from the start?

If she falls...

Here's a girl I would've fallen for
A brush against me, shudders, nothing more
Would it last, but alas
I would've fallen apart

She's a girl that I melted over
A jacket away, cold to my core
In my past, but too fast
There's nothing too far

Pictures Now

All of the pictures are just pictures now
All of the stories are just fiction now
I'm not sure what I ever saw in them
Is that what makes me a boy or what makes me a man?

Do you see me as another little kid
Who's bitten off more than he can chew?
A love-shot litterbug
Crawling after you?

Puzzle pieces represent another perfect fit
Drawing attention to an outline drawn in sand
A fired up world
Three points from caving in

All of the hello's are just filler now
All of the goodbye's are just new ghost towns
I'm not sure what I ever saw in them
Is that what makes me a boy or what makes me a man?

Would you ever look up to a figment of me?
Or like a proud lawn, staying two steps ahead
Trying to figure out
What's worth alive or dead

Are you a fan of love, clandestinely?
A broken bottle shard filling in for your cool
If I don't ask the question
I won't have to face the truth

All of the pictures are just pictures now
All of the stories are just fiction now
I'm not sure what I ever saw in them
Is that what makes me a boy or what makes me a man?

Serendipity

She fell in love with him
The moment the cigarette touched his lips
She was in search for a sense
of danger laced with experience

She needed a best friend
One that'd never break, just bend
Under ev'ry bit of her will
Safety latches under the thrill

So if you fall through the cracks, waiting to land on your back
Remember the impact that you could have had
But instead you decided to throw it all away
Throw it away

Instead she found a film
Playing though moments in her head
Watching 'til the tail end
Waiting for the recovery

Roses out on a limb
With a different name, a different whim
She felt her sun burning out
Leaving her with nothing to laugh about


So if you fall through the cracks, waiting to land on your back
Remember the impact that you could have had
But instead you decided to throw it all away
Throw it away
Serendipity

She fell in love with him

Interstellar

There was once an era
of blonde girls and bleached hair
A time that separated the men
from the rest of the boys

Though in the end, I don't believe
that anything really mattered
We were all made out to be
the object of another toy

Brokenhearted, we flocked to the streets,
internet super highway
Marching in line to the beat of a drummer
that couldn't be seen

Was it even fun? I couldn't figure out
where we were going anyway
Instead, we thought we had crossed
the finish line in one piece

What a trip that was,
Numbers and equations

But now we're dealing with all of the difference
and what's the same
Trudging along a trench, a grave
that's already been dug out for me

A doe eyed girl following me on the way home,
a flow by a different name
Dodging cars as well as hearts,
someone should knock me into reality

Snap

Would our lives be fun,

More cliches in the sun

Or would we be higher than we ever felt before?

Your boots on my doorstep,

Your head on my chest,

Watching the same TV shows, your laugh I would adore

But there's no more love

Just pop rocks and soda

There's never enough of

Happily Ever Aftermath

But there's no more love

Just patches of tension

There's never enough of

Happily Ever Aftermath

I act like I'm confused

As to why I'd like you

Running through different worlds, two different sports

I don't enjoy you less,

No matters, I jest

That we go running in this neutral downpour

But there's no more love

Just pop rocks and soda

There's never enough of

Happily Ever Aftermath

Will you come to bed if I show up first?

I'll be that lesson that you have to learn